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VOLUME 6 . NUMBER 1
SPRING· 1994
The Contemporary Pacific
A Journal ofIsland Affairs
Volume 6 . Number 1
Spring 1994 .
CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES
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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I PRESS
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Cover: Detail. Double canoe, Kealakekua Bay, Hawai'i.Engraving by John Webber. Courtesy of Barbara Pope.
Journal design by Barbara Pope
Cartography by Manoa Mapworks, Honolulu,Hawai'i
© 1994 by Univer$ity of Hawai'i Press. All rightsreserved. Manufactured in the United States of America.
ISSN 1043-898x
8'" The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard forInformation Sciences-Permanence of Paper for PrintedLibrary Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984·
Contents
ARTICLES
Clowning as Political Commentary: Polynesia, Then and NowVilsoni Hereniko I
Simply Chamorro: Telling Tales of Demise andSurvival in Guam
Vicente M. Diaz 29
Highly Structured Tourist Art: Form and Meaning ofthe Polynesian Cultural Center
Terry D. Webb 59
bikinis and other s / pacific n / oceansTeresia K. Teaiwa 87
"In Order to Win Their Friendship": Renegotiating FirstContact
Klaus Neumann III
DIALOGUE
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Our Sea of IslandsEpeli Haucofa
POLITICAL REVIEWS
Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, I July 1992 to
30 June 1993Leland Bettis, Ketson Johnson, Samuel F. McPhetres,Donald R. Shuster, Roniti Teiwaki
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Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, I July 1992 to30 June 1993
Kerry James, Bill Legalley, Stephen Levine,Moshe Rapaport, Franf-ois Sodter, Haunani-Kay Trask,A. Morgan Tuimaleali'ifano, Ranginui]. Walker 177
RESOURCES
Hawaiian SovereigntyChieko Tachihata
BOOK REVIEWS
201
Anahulu: The Anthropology ofHistory in the KingdomofHawaii
Review Forum by Greg Dening, Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa, andAtholl Anderson, with a Response by Patrick V. Kirch andMarshall Sahlins 2II
History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology,edited by James G. Carrier
Reviewed by Eugene Ogan 224
Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts: Representingthe Chambri in a World System, by Deborah B. Gewertz andFrederick K. Errington
Reviewed by Nancy McDowell 229
Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Tolai Past,by Klaus Neumann
Reviewed by Phyllis S. Herda 231
Native Land and Foreign Desires: Pehea La E Pono Ai?by Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa
Reviewed by Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio 233
Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy: Scholarship, Empire,and the South Pacific, edited by Lenora Foerstel andAngela Gilliam
Reviewed by Terence E. Hays 236
The Apotheosis ofCaptain Cook: European Mythmaking inthe Pacific, by Gananath Obeyesekere
Reviewed by Richard]. Parmentier 238
Beyond the Politics ofRace: An Alternative History ofFijito I992, by William Sutherland
Reviewed by Robert Norton 24I
Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox ofKeeping- While-Giving,by Annette B. Weiner
Reviewed by Kerry James 243
Social Change in the Pacific Islands, edited byAlbert B. Robillard
Reviewed by Michael C. Howard 245
The Northeast Passage: A Study ofPacific Islander Migrationto American Samoa and the United States, by Dennis Ahlburgand Michael J. Levin; Remittances and Their Impact:A Study of Tonga and Western Samoa, by Dennis A. Ahlburg
Reviewed by Robert W. Franco 248
Tahiti: Strategie pour l'apres-nuc!eaire, by Bernard PoirineReviewed by Ben Finney 25I
Nauru: Environmental Damage under InternationalTrusteeship, by Christopher Weeramantry
Reviewed by Barrie Macdonald 253
From Sea to Space, by Ben FinneyReviewed by Donald H. Rubinstein 256
Island Boy: An Autobiography, by Tom Davis,Pa Tuterangi Ariki
Reviewed by Stuart Inder 258
THE PACIFIC ISLANDS 26I
CONTRIB UTORS 263