Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: A Belauan Story of Creation xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. An Invitation 1
6. SECTION ONE Frames of Reference
7. Introduction 31
8. Making Histories
9. 1 Inside Us the Dead 35
10. 2 Releasing the Voices Historicizing Colonial Encounters in the Pacific 43
11. 3 Starting from Trash 62
12. 4 Indigenous Knowledge and Academic Imperialism 78
13. Valuing the Pacific—An Interview with James Clifford 92
14. SECTION TWO The Dynamics of Contact
15. Introduction 101
16. Possessing Others
17. 5 Possessing Tahiti 112
18. 6 Remembering First Contact Realities and Romance 133
19. 7 Constructing “Pacific” Peoples 152
20. A View from Afar (North America)—A Commentary by Richard White 169
21. SECTION THREE Colonial Engagements
22. Introduction 173
23. Colonial Entanglements
24. 8 Hawai‘i in the Early Nineteenth Century The Kingdom and the Kingship 189
25. 9 Deaths on the Mountain An Account of Police Violence in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea 212
26. Tensions of Empire
27. 10 Colonial Conversions Difference, Hierarchy, and History in Early Twentieth-Century Evangelical Propaganda 231
28. 11 The French Way in Plantation Systems 247
29. Styles of Dominance
30. 12 The New Zealand Wars and the Myth of Conquest 255
31. 13 Theorizing Mâori Women’s Lives: Paradoxes of the Colonial Male Gaze 269
32. 14 Conqueror 287
33. World War II
34. 15 World War II in Kiribati 288
35. 16 Barefoot Benefactors A Study of Japanese Views of Melanesians 292
36. A View from Afar (South Asia)—An Interview with Gyan Prakash 296
37. SECTION FOUR “Postcolonial” Politics
38. Introduction 303
39. Continuities and Discontinuities
40. 17 Decolonization 314
41. 18 Colonised People 333
42. 19 My Blood 338
43. 20 Custom and the Way of the Land Past and Present in Vanuatu and Fiji 340
44. 21 The Relationship between the United States and the Native Hawaiian People A Case of Spouse Abuse 358
45. Identity and Empowerment
46. 22 Moe‘uhane 361
47. 23 Simply Chamorro Tales of Demise and Survival in Guam 362
48. 24 Mixed Blood 383
49. 25 Ngati Kangaru 385
50. Integrating “the Past” into “the Present”
51. 26 Our Pacific 399
52. 27 Treaty-Related Research and Versions of New Zealand History 401
53. 28 Cook, Lono, Obeyesekere, and Sahlins 420
54. A View from Afar (Middle East)—An Interview with Edward Said 443
55. Epilogue Pasts to Remember 453
56. Abbreviations and Newspapers 473
57. Bibliography 475
58. List of Contributors 533
59. Index 537