Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific

The Pacific has long been a site for debates over disciplinary approaches and the ethics and politics of research within neocolonial and postcolonial contexts. This volume makes a significant contribution to these debates and to the related and ongoing exchanges concerning area studies, the globalization of capitalism, and its attendant cultural, social, and political effects. In so doing, the authors link work from the Pacific with theoretical and methodological issues raised in other areas of the globe. This collection of the best from Contemporary Pacific will prove invaluable to scholars, students and all interested in the study of history, culture, and identity in the Pacific and in (post) colonial societies everywhere.

Lissant Bolton is curator of the Pacific and Australian Collections at the British Museum David A. Chappell is associate professor in the Department of History, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Greg Dening in his retirement is adjunct professor with the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University Vicente M. Diaz is associate professor of Pacific history and current chair of the Master's degree program in Micronesian Studies at the University of Guam Reshela DuPuis is currently assistant professor of American and Women's Studies at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania Ben Finney is professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, as well as co-chair of the Space and Society Department at the International Space University Greg Fry is the Hedley Bull Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, at the Australian National University David Welchman Gegeo teaches in the Liberal Studies Institute at California State University, Monterey Bay David Hanlon teaches Pacific Islands history at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Epeli Hau'ofa is director of the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji Alan Howard is professor emeritus in anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Margaret Jolly is professor and convenor of the Gender Relations Centre in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University Roger M. Keesing was professor of anthropology at McGill University when he passed away in 1993 Jocelyn Linnekin is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut Klaus Neumann is an independent historian and lives on Waiheke Island, Aotearoa New Zealand Teresia K. Teaiwa is lecturer in Pacific Studies at Victoria University of Wellington Christina A. Thompson is a former East-West Center fellow and editor of the Australian quarterly, Meanjin Haunani-Kay Trask is a poet, scholar, and founder of the Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Geoffrey M. White is senior fellow at the East-West Center and professor of anthropology with the University of Hawai'i at Manoa