Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2019.1659530
Max Quanchi
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Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2017.1396570
Dario Di Rosa
ABSTRACT This article is prompted by the recent debate on the so-called crisis in the humanities, and the related call for historians to change direction by returning to history of the longue durée. While pointing out that the ‘crisis’ is more influenced by the changing political economy of the tertiary education sector than by specific historiographical practices, I suggest that small-scale analysis remains compatible with global history approaches. Articulating a parallel examination of Pacific historiography and the Italian variant of microhistory, the article argues that the latter provides fertile stimuli for Pacific history. In particular, I maintain that integrating social analysis can serve to counterbalance the over-emphasis on cultural aspects found in much Pacific historiography.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-01DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2016.1250329
Andrea Ballesteros Danel
the nation as a whole. In ‘narratives of nation’, the author describes how the word ‘Kanak’ came to refer to the Melanesian people of New Caledonia. Derived from Hawaiian kanaka, meaning ‘person’, the word was initially used to refer to Pacific Islanders, but for the colonialists, it became a derogatory term. Kanak, however, started using it with a positive connotation to express and symbolise their unity as one national community and changed the spelling from the French ‘Canaque’ to ‘Kanak’ (pp. 40–45, 460). Another term, Caledonian, was initially used to refer to all the inhabitants of New Caledonia but has begun to be used more specifically for people of European descent, including those of mixed race, in preference to an older term, Caldoches. The differentiation of these terms and the complex ways they are used reflects the racial and cultural diversity of NewCaledonia and the changes in people’s perception of their identity. The author gives a detailed account of the evolving political relationship between France and New Caledonia and how recent political and social changes have led Kanak to develop and strengthen their sense of unity and accommodate new socio-political structures despite still being bound by blood relationships and traditions. Kanak identity is thus transforming and becoming multi-tiered. At the same time, political aspirations have changed from Kanak independence to the restoration of traditional rights and dignity as the Indigenous people of the island. The issues raised by the author are too numerous to discuss, but I would like to draw attention to the word ‘partner’, which the author uses several times. ‘Partner’ was a key word for the late Jean-Marie Tjibaou, a Kanak independence leader (pp. 223, 267), who said in 1985 that Kanak needed to regain sovereignty over their country and that sovereignty meant the right to choose partners. This evokes memories of first visits to tribus (reserves) and la coutume, a formalised greeting where the visitor offers the village chief a present and the chief responds with a standard discourse such as, ‘Thank you for visiting...Now that you have done this coutume, you will always be welcome here... ’ I believe this custom reflects the same spirit of accepting the other as a ‘partner’ and treating him or her as a trustworthy ally, an important act in Kanak society. Japan has a similar social practice, often described as uchi (inner circle), which is intimate and relaxed, as against soto (outer circle), which is more distant and formal. I recommend Edo’s publication very highly. It successfully depicts the complex nature of Kanak identity, which has been formed through a struggle against a colonial power to regain self-esteem and rights as autochthons. But Edo’s work goes further than merely describing the historical facts. Her numerous interviews are personal testimonies to how Kanak individuals perceive and feel about the changing world around them and how much they care about their
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Pub Date : 2016-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2015.1120909
Tracey Banivanua Mar
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Pub Date : 2015-01-29DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2015.1005549
Dario Di Rosa
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Pub Date : 2014-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2014.885178
T. van Meijl
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Pub Date : 2013-03-01DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2012.760839
S. Lawson
The term ‘Melanesia’ is a partly geographic, partly cultural referent to a subregion of the island Pacific that has become very much part of ordinary descriptive language along with terms categorising other parts of the Pacific island world, namely Polynesia and Micronesia. Yet ‘Melanesia’ is much more than a descriptor. The term has been loaded with significance in a variety of ways, carrying with it both negative and positive connotations. This paper provides an overview of the way in which the idea of Melanesia has developed, from its origins in racialist ethnography through to the postcolonial period. It suggests that, although a number of scholars now find the term problematic because of its historical associations with European exploration and colonisation and the racism embedded in these, ‘Melanesia’ has acquired a positive meaning and relevance for many of those to whom the term applies.
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Pub Date : 2012-12-01DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2012.743431
D. D. de Frutos, Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
Despite cross-cultural exchange and ethnic mixing over the last five centuries, Guam remains culturally a Chamorro society. Rather than stressing the ‘acculturative forces of colonialism’, this study focuses on the survival of Chamorro local traditions and identity by bringing death rituals and native Catholicism to the fore. This study corroborates the work of several scholars who have emphasised the vital role played by Chamorro women and female symbolism before and after Spanish contact. It adopts a theoretical position, well expressed by historian Vicente M. Diaz, which conceives colonialism as an ambivalent and fluid process, involving appropriation and creative syncretism on the part of the colonised.
尽管在过去五个世纪中进行了跨文化交流和种族混合,关岛在文化上仍然是一个查莫罗社会。本研究并没有强调“殖民主义的反文化力量”,而是将死亡仪式和本土天主教置于首位,重点关注查莫罗当地传统和身份的生存。这项研究证实了几位学者的工作,他们强调了查莫罗妇女和女性象征在西班牙接触前后所起的重要作用。它采用了历史学家维森特·m·迪亚兹(Vicente M. Diaz)很好地表达的理论立场,认为殖民主义是一个矛盾和流动的过程,涉及被殖民者的挪用和创造性融合。
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Pub Date : 2012-06-01DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2012.665207
Antje Lübcke
This paper focuses on two photograph albums held at the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand archives in Dunedin, New Zealand, that relate to the Church's New Hebrides (Vanuatu) mission field. While it is acknowledged that photographs are valuable sources for the historian, photograph albums have not received the same level of critical attention. Taking the lead from the material turn in anthropology, this paper presents the object-story of the two New Hebrides albums, which means the albums themselves are placed under closer historical scrutiny within the context of both the Presbyterian mission in the New Hebrides and its imaging and propagation on New Zealand's shores. By approaching these albums as both collections of images and objects that traversed different social and physical spaces, their importance as part of the material and visual culture of the mission becomes clear.
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Pub Date : 2011-12-01DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2011.632953
Frank Bongiorno
policy making; and concludes that New Zealand did follow a distinctive (if not exceptional) path, a conclusion at odds with one of the book’s avowed intentions. It is at least debatable whether New Zealand’s historians have been as preoccupied as claimed with pursuing the elusive matter of ‘national identity’. A glance at the voluminous material produced for the Waitangi Tribunal, most of it based on a close and critical engagement with the archival and oral record, scarcely suggests any such preoccupation. And it certainly does not support the claim that historians have been prone to view the country’s history as unique, distinct or exceptional. Further, any reading of resource and conservation history and migration serves to demonstrate that New Zealand’s historians are well versed in similar areas of inquiry in other ‘regions of recent settlement’. The claim that the collection incorporates much of the research conducted since 1992 scarcely bears scrutiny. The many well-researched reports prepared as part of the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process have been practically ignored, a pity given the focused and determined effort which they represent to identify and unravel the processes of colonisation, disempowerment, and immiseration. Richard Boast’s excellent distillation of land loss on the part of Maori (Buying the Land, Selling the Land: governments and Maori land in the North Island, 1865–1921, 2008) rates no mention anywhere in the book. Further, those same studies express what is singularly lacking in this collection, namely, a sense of the regional and local. Also largely overlooked is the huge volume of family, local and regional history which has appeared in the last twenty years, much of it of great value. Has The New Oxford History of New Zealand succeeded in complicating our understanding of New Zealand’s past? Possibly, but partly on account of the conceptual wooliness apparent in some of the essays, and the use of social science jargon and assorted turgidities. Turning nouns into verbs and offering vague generalisations do not facilitate understanding, and if historical writing is not intended to inform a general readership, then, it may be asked, what is it for? Is the adjective ‘new’ justified? Not fully. Many of the themes explored are familiar, many of the interpretations offered have been offered before, and many of the conclusions reached are readily recognisable. Has the collection ‘destabilised’ the whole idea of a general history of New Zealand? It is to be hoped not, for a thorough new general history is something which in the post-Belich and the (almost) post-Treaty settlement era is greatly needed.
政策制定;并得出结论,新西兰确实走了一条与众不同(如果不是例外的话)的道路,这一结论与该书公开宣称的意图之一不符。新西兰的历史学家们是否像他们声称的那样专注于追求“民族认同”这个难以捉摸的问题,至少是有争议的。看一眼为怀唐伊法庭制作的大量材料,其中大部分是基于对档案和口头记录的密切和批判性的接触,几乎看不到任何这样的关注。它当然也不支持历史学家倾向于将这个国家的历史视为独特、独特或例外的说法。此外,任何对资源和保护历史以及移民的阅读都有助于证明新西兰的历史学家精通其他“最近定居地区”的类似调查领域。声称该收藏包含了自1992年以来进行的大部分研究的说法几乎经不起推究。作为《怀唐伊条约》(Treaty of Waitangi)解决进程的一部分,许多经过充分研究的报告实际上被忽视了,这令人遗憾,因为它们代表了确定和揭示殖民、剥夺权力和贫困过程的集中和坚定的努力。Richard自夸对毛利人土地损失的精辟总结(买地,卖地:北岛政府和毛利人的土地,1865-1921,2008)在书中没有任何地方被提及。此外,这些研究还表达了本汇编中特别缺乏的东西,即对区域和地方的认识。在很大程度上被忽视的还有近二十年来出现的大量家庭、地方和地区历史,其中大部分都很有价值。《新牛津新西兰史》成功地使我们对新西兰过去的理解复杂化了吗?有可能,但部分原因是一些文章中明显的概念模糊,以及使用社会科学术语和各种浮夸。把名词变成动词,提供模糊的概括,并不能促进理解,如果历史写作不是为了向普通读者提供信息,那么,人们可能会问,它的目的是什么?形容词new是正确的吗?不完全。书中探讨的许多主题都很熟悉,书中提供的许多解释以前也有人提出过,书中得出的许多结论也很容易辨认。这些藏品是否“动摇”了新西兰通史的整体观念?希望不是这样,因为在后贝利奇和(几乎)后《条约》解决时代,非常需要一部彻底的新的通史。
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