Pacific News from Manoa NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I

ANNUAL CONFERENCE: AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY AND MICRONESIA The center is looking forward to its 1993 annual conference which will be the first major retrospective of American social and cultural anthropology in Micronesia. The conference will be held at Tokai University in Honolulu, on 20-23 October. It will assess the impact this research has had on the theory and practice of anthropology in general as well as the impact this anthropology has had in Micronesia. The tentative program is:

On Wednesday, 20 October, the session will be chaired by Robert KISTE. Presenters will be Suzanne FALGOUT of University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu and Kiste on the historical context of anthropology's involvement in Micronesia; David HANLON of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa on anthropology's history in Micronesia; Vicente DIAZ of the University of Guam on Chamorro cultural history and the history of American cultural anthropology in Guam; Lin POYER of the University of Cincinnati on ethnicity and identity; and Karen NERO of the University of Auckland on art and expressive culture.

Thursday's session, 21 October, will be chaired by Don RUBINSTEIN of the University of Guam. Papers to

be presented are: William ALKIRE of the University of Victoria on cultural ecology and ecological anthropology; Peter BLACK of George Mason University on psychological anthropology; Mac MARSHAlL of the University of Iowa on kinship and social organization; and Glenn PETERSEN of Baruch College on political studies.

On Friday, 22 October, the session wil be chaired by Mac Marshall. Presenters include: Edward KING, president of the Pacific Institute for Judicial Administration at the Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa speaking on anthropology and the Trust Territory judiciary; Francis X. HEZEL of the Micronesian Seminar in Pohnpei on anthropology's contribution to social research in Micronesia. Karen PEACOCK of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa on culture and the classroom; and Donald Rubinstein on medical anthropology and medical services.

The fourth and final day of the session, 23 October, will be chaired by Robert Kiste and in the morning will feature reflections by Ward GOODENOUGH, Leonard MASON, and Norman MEllER. In the afternoon, the conference will conclude after a session on Micronesian responses chaired by Vicente Diaz.

The conference is open to the public but registration will be limited. For more information contact: Tisha Hickson, Outreach Coordinator, 956-2652.

RUSSELL SOABA: FIRST PARTICIPANT IN EXCHANGE PROGRAM Russell SOABA, currently a lecturer in literature at the University of Papua New Guinea, will be hosted by the center and the Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Center in the fall semester '93. Soaba visits as the first participant of a new faculty exchange program between the University of Papua New Guinea, PIDP, and the center.

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Soaba is an accomplished writer from the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. He is the author of two novels, Wanpis (1977) and Maiba (1986), as well as a collection of poems entitled Naked Thoughts (1978). In addition, he has had numerous poems, short stories, reviews, feature articles, intetviews and plays published, broadcast, or performed.

While here, Soaba will pursue his own creative and research activities as well as participate in some of the activities at PlOP and the center. Soaba will join Vilsoni Hereniko in Hila as a guest lecturer for the Pacific Literature class that Hereniko is teaching this fall.

WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A MASTER'S DEGREE IN PACIFIC ISlANDS STUDIES? To answer that question, one need only look to Pacific Islands Studies alumni, many of whom are in professions directly or indirectly related to Pacific Islands Studies. This article, the first in a series about Pacific Islands Studies alumni, notes those who are now or have recently been teaching at tertiary-level institutions.

To date, there have been 95 graduates of the Pacific Islands Studies MA program. The first graduate was Marion KELLY, who received her MAin 1956. Kelly, typical of many of our graduates, is an educator; she is an Associate Professor in the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Hawai' i at Manoa. Other educators teaching at the tertiary level are: John ROUGHAN (1978), until recently was Head of the School of General Studies at the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education but has returned to the Solomon Islands

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Development Trust; Daviana McGREGOR (1979), Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa; Naomi LosCH (1980), Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Language and Culture at Leeward Community College; Lilikala KAMil'ELEIIDWA (1982), Associate Professor of Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa; and Junko EDO (1985), who last wrote in 1987 saying she had a temporary post teaching Pacific Islands Studies at Hosei University in Tokyo. Jon JONASSEN (1982) is on extended leave from the government of the Cook Islands to finish a doctorate in Political Science. While here in Hawai'i, besides attending classes, he is teaching at the Brigham Young University in Ut'ie.

Other tertiary level educators are: Amena MOHSIN (1986), who was an assistant professor at Dhasa University in Bangladesh when she last corresponded in 1990; Bruce CAMPBELL(1987), University of Guam; Puakea NoGELMEIER (1987), Hawaiian language intructor at University of Hawai'i at Manoa, now pursuing a doctorate in anthropology; Ricalda UCHIYAMA (1987), dance instructor at San Francisco City College; Margo VITAREW (1985), Art and Pacific Studies instructor at Northern Marianas Community College; Suzanna LAYTON (1990), who teaches courses while attending the University of Queensland in pursuit of a doctorate in journalism. Many, but not all, of these educators have completed or are working toward doctoral degrees.

Look for more alumni facts and figures in the next issue of this newsletter. Of course, any additions and corrections are welcomed and appreciated. Write, call, fax, or e-mail the editor about any alumni news. Addresses and numbers are listed in the masthead.

CPIS STUDENT NEWS

New Students The center welcomes three new students into the program this fall, all of whom are from the Pacific Islands. They are:

Palauni (Brownie) TuiASOSOPO, from American Samoa, BA in Political Science from the University of Oregon.

Cecelia (Lee) PEREZ, from Guam, BA in Journalism and Communication from University of Hawai'i at Mlliloa.

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Randie Kamuela FONG, from Hawai'i, BA in Music from Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington.

Summer Graduates David EARlE returned to New Zealand after completing his MA in Pacific Islands Studies this summer. His Plan A thesis was entitled: Coalition Politics in Hawai'i-1887-90: Hui Kalai'aina and the Mechanics and Workingmen's Political Protective Union. His abstract reads:

"In 1889, Hui Klllai'~ina (The Hawaiian Political Association) and the Mechanics and Workingmens' Political Protective Union united to form the National Reform Party in order to win the 1890 election in Hawai'i. They stood against the Reform Party, which represented the interests of the American and European elite in the islands. The National Reform Party's policies were to maintain the independence of the islands and improve the situation of native Hawaiians and the American and European lower and middle classes. Their coalition provides an interesting example of political cooperation between native people and settlers. It highlights the ambiguities and tensions of race, class, and national identity in nineteenth-century Hawai'i. This thesis traces the origin and development of the coalition. It concludes by assessing the success of the coalition and some of the problems that it faced."

Alexander DEVOOGT also completed his MA after one year of intense study and research at the center. His M.A. thesis is entitled Non-alphabetic Writing Systems in the Pacific Islands.

Aki, Fong receive Native Hawaiian Fellowship Kathy AKI and Randie FONG, both graduate students in the centers MA program, were awarded Native Hawaiian Fellowships to the East-West Center. The fellowship is a new program funded by the Kamehameha Schools and Bishop Estates.

FALL SEMESTER LIBRARY HOURS The Hawai'i and Pacific Collection located on the

fifth floor of the Hamilton Library at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa has announced its hours for the fall semester. These are:

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday: 9:00AM to 5:00 PM; Tuesday: 9:00AM to 8:30PM; Friday: 9:00AM to 4:45PM; Saturday: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM; Sunday and Holidays: Closed .

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NEWS IN BRIEF Center director, Robert KlsTE attended a meeting of the Council of the National University of Samoa in Apia, Western Samoa, 21-23 July.

Dr. KISTE presented a paper, Assistance, Dependency, and Pacific Island Futures, at the Second South Pacific Symposium: The Perspective of Economic Assistance for Pacific Island Countries held in Tokyo, Japan from 18-19 August. This symposium was sponsored by the Foundation for Advanced Information and Research.

Vilsoni HERENIKO is guest teaching a course in Pacific Literature at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo this fall.

Linley CHAPMAN recently returned from a trip to Fiji and New Zealand. While in Fiji she attended the annual meeting of the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA), where she renewed contacts and made fresh contacts with regional journalists. The one-week visit from 9-16 July also permitted consultations with Contemporary Pacific authors Epeli HAU'OFA and Teresia TEAIW A, as well as with Linda CROWL of the Institute of Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific. While in New Zealand, she visited the Polynesian Book Store in Auckland.

CONGRATULATIONS to Pacific Islands Studies faculty who recently received promotions: Terry HUNT to Associate Professor in Anthropology; Lilikala KAME'ELEIIIIWA to Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Hawaiian Studies; Haunani-Kay TRASK to Professor of Hawaiian Studies; and Karen PEACOCK to Librarian V.

Nancy Lewis Appointed Associate Dean Dean Richard DUBANOSKI of the College of Social Sciences, recently announced the appointment of Dr. Nancy Davis LEWIS as Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences.

Dr. Lewis is a faculty member in the geography department with expertise in human ecology, geography of health disease, and gender and development. She has been an active academic leader in her department and across the campus. Among her many professional achievements, she has served as Secretary General of the Pacific Science Congress, organizing the successful 1991 meeting in Honolulu. She is a member of the CPIS faculty, serves on the Contemporary Pacific editorial board, and is currently teaching a course for the center, cross-listed in the geography department, on gender and development in the Pacific Islands. CONGRATULATIONS NANCY!

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CENTER VISITORS 16 July: Dr William E. WILIMOIT, from the Department of Sociology at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

11 August: Mr Harold C. BOYKIN, Office of International Services of the American Red Cross in Washington, DC.

13 August: Mr Bruce MAlKIN, the Labor, United Nations, and Human Rights Adviser for the department of East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the US Department of State in Washington, DC.

23 August: Dr Seiji HASHIMOTO, Department of Geography and Dr lshiro MATSUHARA, both of Kansai University in Osaka, Japan.

25 August: Faustina REHUHER, Director of the Belau Museum, represented the government of Belau at the Family in the Aquatic Continent conference in Maui. Rehuher, who is a CPIS alumni (1989), visited the center while in Honolulu.

26 August: At the same Maui conference, Ms Darlene KEJU represented the Republic of the Marshall Islands and met with Dr Kiste while in Honolulu.

26 August: Mr Giff JOHNSON, a journalist working in Majuro in the Marshall Islands.

OCCASIONAL SEMINARS An informal talk and question and answer session was held with the outgoing US ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, Aurelia BRAZEAL on 8 July.

Jacquelyn LEWIS-HARRIS, Curatorial Assistant in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the St. Louis Art Museum, presented a seminar Bringing the Pacific to the Mississippi on 27 July. Ms. Lewis-Harris spent eight years working in programs for cultural development in Papua New Guinea and Liberia. In her talk she discussed her observations on contemporary Pacific identity expressed in the presentations and performances of the 1992 Pacific Arts Festival and the 1993 Pacific Arts Association Meeting. She also addressed the application of current Pacific research on identity in contemporary museum exhibitions.

On 19 August, John ROUGHAN, former Head of the School of General Studies at the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education, gave a seminar on The

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Changing Role of Government in Development in the Solomon Islands. Roughan, founder of the Solomon Islands Development Trust to which he is returning, the Solomon Islands' leading NGO, discussed his work with SIDT in participatory community development. Since its inception in 1982, SIDT has grown from a staff of one to a staff of three hundred trained villagers, forty-two per cent of whom are women. SIDTs seventy-five teams work throughout the Solomons, conducting hundreds of workshops yearly using open-learning tools, Pijin English comics, theatre teams, and a bi-monthly magazine, LINK. In his seminar, Dr. Roughan discussed how government and NGO sectors have changed in development work in the Solomons since 1978.

UH-HILO BEGINS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES The University of Hawai'i at Hilo announced that an undergraduate certificate in Pacific Islands Studies was recently approved by the College of Arts and Scences there. It is a 21-credit program with a required introduction to the cultures of the Pacific and a required co-taught senior seminar. Students must also take at least two out of three courses from anthropology (contemporary issues), geography, and history as well as at least one course in the literature and arts area. Additional credits can be gained through electives that have significant Pacific content or through independent study courses. Hilo faculty are being encouraged to develop new courses in politics, economics, and art.

For more information, contact Craig SEVERANCE, coordinator of this program, at 933-3472 (telephone) or 933-3737 (fax).

WARSAW MUSEUM CELEBRATES TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY The Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw is the only institute in Poland that promotes knowledge of the cultural heritage of the nations of Asia, Australia, and Oceania. The aim is to spread mutual learning, cooperation, and friendship between nations. The museum, which is state-owned, was founded in 1973 on the basis of a private collection amassed and later donated to the Polish State by Andrzej Wawrzej WAWRZYNIAK, who is the founder and lifelong director and curator-in-chief of the museum.

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The museum has held 380 exhibitions not only at its two Warsaw galleries, but also in over sixty towns in Poland as well as in Afghanistan, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tahiti, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Along with the exhibitions regular lectures, film shows, theatrical spectacles, concerts, lessons in history and geography, and celebrations are organized. Since 1990, the museum has held year-long exhibitions emphasizing different countries, Indonesia in 1990, Mongolia in 1991, China in 1992, and India in 1993. In 1994, Papua New Guinea will be the focus of the annual exhibition.

For more information about this museum contact: The Asia and Pacific Museum, 24 Solec St., 00-403 Warsaw, Poland. Telephone: 29-67-24.

PACIFIC LEADERS ADOPT PIDP'S NEW DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL Sitiveni HAIAPUA, director of the Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) at the East-West Center, told presidents, prime ministers, and other heads of state at the recent Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders meeting in Tahiti that their government planning offices are "fundamentally inadequate" for addressing the needs confronting Pacific Islanders today.

Halapua said that PIDP has come up with an alternative framework for development, which he describes as "holistic." Different dimensions­environment, culture, economic growth, population, technology, government, international relations -"are unified in one systematic framework."

Regarding the adoption of PIDP's new development proposal at the recent conference, Halapua said, "Pacific Island leaders sensed that it is the right approach. So they approved the framework we proposed and moreover they requested that it be further developed."

For more information contact: Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center, 1777 East­West Road, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 96848.

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NEW PUBLICATIONS, RESOURCES

Tonga A new title was recently released by the KI1LV Press, Islanders of the South: Production, Kinship, and Ideology in the Polynesian Kingdom ofTonga (Verhandelingen Series 154, NLG 45.00, ISBN 90 6718 058 0) by Paul VANDER GRUP. Islanders of the South is an ethnography of the Kingdom of Tonga, examining the interplay of Polynesian and western ideas within contemporary social and economic patterns. The book provides an account of contemporary Tongan society and and main means of subsistence. The aim is to investigate how Tongans live together and how they experience their relationship to nature and to one another. The author raises doubts about the ideology of "progress" by referring to aspects of nature and culture that are disappearing. To order contact: KI1L V Press, PO Box 9515,2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. Phone: 31-71-27 23 72, Fax: 31-71-27 26 38.

Micronesia A basic reference for libraries, schools, government agencies, and the general reader, the revised second edition oftheAtlas of Micronesia (US$19.95) by Bruce G. KAROUE emphasizes the natural, humanmade, and human resources of the archipelagic areas of the Mariana, Caroline, and Marshall islands. In addition to statistical and name updates, the revised second edition includes new sections on island vegetation, exploration and discovery, indigenous place names, economic development of tourism, and distance education. The three main sections also describe Micronesia's physical geography; trans-Pacific connections; ties with Southeast and East Asia; population distribution; the role of canoes and navigation; climate and weather; and the individual physical and human geographic characteristics of nine individual islands and atolls. The text is accompanied by 81 maps, graphs, photographs, and data tables, including thematic maps covering population distributions, fish and marine resources, political and economic boundaries, climate and rainfall, and historical and cultural developments. Bruce G. Karolle is Professor of Geography at the Micronesian Research Center, University of Guam. The Atlas of Micronesia can be ordered from the publisher, Bess Press, PO Box 22388, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 95823.

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Identity Through History Identity Through History by Geoffey WHI1E, published by the Cambridge University Press in 1991, can now be purchased for US$19.95. To order call Cambridge University Press at 1-800-872-7423.

Antiquarian Books, Maps, and Prints Antiquarian books, maps, and prints are available from Antipodean Books, Maps, and Prints, a dealer who specializes in the Pacific, Australia, and Antarctica. Their range of holdings include out-of-print scholarly books such as A Grenfell PRICE's The Western Invasion of the Pacific and its Continents (1963) to a complete set of Cook's voyages ( 1773-1784). For information or special requests, contact: David and Cathy LIBURNE, Antipodean Books, Maps, and Prints, P.O. Box 189, Cold Spring, NY 10516. Telephone: (914) 424-3867.

BULLETIN BOARD

Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology The theme for the 13th annual conference is Discovery, Migration, Acculturation, Exploitation or ... ? Reinterpreting Seafaring Activity within the Pacific Rim. It will be held at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia from 17 to 21 October 1994. The theme is a broad and multidisciplinary one as the convenor would like to attract scholars from all fields

University of Hawai'i at Mcrnoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies 1890 East-West Road, Moore Hall 215 Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 USA

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with research interests in seafaring, with a view toward defining where maritime archaeological evidence can contribute to new or revised interpretations of seafaring activity within the Pacific. For infomation contact: Peter GESNER (Convenor AlMA Conference) Curator, Maritime Archaeology, Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Australia. Telephone: (617) 840-7673, Fax: (617) 846-1918.

Society for Applied Anthropology The topic of the 1994 Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology is Social Science for the Next Generation. The meeting will be held from 13-17 April 1994 in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Abstracts and registration fees must be submitted as a package by 1 November 1993. For registration information, contact: Program Chair, Society for Applied Anthropology, PO Box 24083, Oklahoma City, OK, 73124. Pacific Telecommunications Council '94A special roundtable discussion on the growing concern over the Asia/Pacific satellite orbit allocation is being organized for PTC '94 which will be held from 16-20 January 1994, in Honolulu. The theme of this year's conference, Forging New Links, is focused on the developing economies throughout the Pacific hemisphere - the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. For further information, contact: The Pacific Telecommunications Council, 2454 South Beretania Street, Suite 302, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 96826. Telephone: (808) 941-3789; Fax: (808) 944-4874.

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