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Wayfinding
August
29 First class—goals, texts, syllabus, requirements, map
video: Today’s Maka’ainana
September
5 Patricia Grace, Baby No-Eyes, pp. 7-55
Hanlon & White, Voyaging through the Contemporary Pacific,
“Introduction “(Hanlon & White),
And Ch. 15, “The Sin at Awarua” (Finney), pp. 298-327.
Hereniko & Wilson, Inside Out, “Our Sea of Islands” (Hau’ofa)
Due: Web Assignment: http://leahi.kcc.hhawaii.edu/org/pvs and http://www.pbs.org/wayfinders
video: Wayfinders—A Pacific Odyssey
Identities—Ocean and Land
12 Baby No-Eyes, pp. 56-123
Inside Out, Chapter 6, “Influences on Writing” (Grace), and
Chapter 7, “Interview with Patricia Grace” (Hereniko), pp. 65-83.
Voyaging the Contemporary Pacific, Ch. 6, “History ‘In’ the
Pacific” (Dening), pp 135-140.; Ch. 3, “Indigenous Knowledge and Empowerment”
(Gegeo), pp. 64-85.
video: Once were warriors
19 Baby No-Eyes, pp. 124-220
Voyaging…, Ch. 16, “In Whose Face?” (Thompson), 333-348.
Inside Out, Ch. 10, “An Interview with Alan Duff” (Hereniko),
pp. 119-133.
[R] Rapaport, M. The Pacific Islands: environment & society, Ch.
11, “The Postcontact Period,” (Chappell), pp. 134-143.
video: Kasis Road
Reading Paper #1 Due
26 Baby No-Eyes, 220-294
Voyaging, Ch. 7, “Simply Chamorro…” (Diaz), pp. 141-167
[R] Toon van Meijl, “The Reemergence of Maori Chiefs”
[R] Rapaport, M., Chapter 16 (Lindstrom), “Social Relations,” pp. 195-205.
video: Stolen Water
“Here our words”
October
3 Margaret Jolly, Women of the Place, Prologue-Chapter 2, “Engendered
Things,”pp. 1-92.
Voyaging, Ch. 8, “In Order
to Win their Friendship” (Neumann), pp. 171-199
[R] Rapaport, M. The Pacific Islands,
Selina Tusitala Marsh, Ch. 14, “Here Our Words,” pp. 166-177
Map test
10 Women of the Place, Ch. 3, “Engendered Persons,”-Ch. 4, “Making
a Road in Marriage,” pp. 93-140.
Inside Out, Ch. 11, “Representations of Cultural Identities”
(Hereniko), pp. 137-162.; and Ch. 12, “Decolonizing Hawaiian Literature”
(Trask), pp. 167-182.
[R] Rapaport, M. The Pacific Islands, Ch. 16, “Social Relations,”
(Lindstrom), pp. 195-205.
video: Papkolea
17 Women of the Place, Ch. 5, “From Wombs to Tombs”-Ch. 6, “The
Way of the Pigs,”
141-210
video: The Trobriand
Islanders
slides—Sa, South Pentecost, Vanuatu
Reading Paper #2 Due
bikinis, bombs and S/pacific n/oceans
24 Women of the Place, Ch. 7, “Warriors, Peacemakers and Colonial
Power,”—Epilogue, pp. 211-258
[R] Howe, Kiste & Lal, eds. Tides of History, Chapter 13,
“Stratgic and nuclear issues,” pp. 300-322. and chapter 10, “United States”
(Kiste, R.), pp. 227-255.
video: Half-Life
NYU Pacific Islands Studies Symposium, October 25-27
31 Sia Figiel, Where we once belonged, pp. 1-56
[R] Jolly, M., “From Point Venus to Bali Ha’I”
[R] White, G. “Remembering Guadalcanal”
Voyaging,, Ch. 4, “bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans,” pp.
91-108.
video: excerpts from: South Pacific and The Thin Red Line
Reading Paper #3 Due
Politics of Indigeneity “On the Edge”
November
7 Where we once belonged, pp. 57-142.
Voyaging…, Chapter 10 (Keesing), “Creating the Past,” pp. 231-251;
Chapter 11 (Trask), “Natives and Anthropologists,” pp. 255-262; Chapter
12 (Keesing), “Reply to Trask,” pp. 264-267.
Inside Out, Chapter 24 (A. Wendt), “Tatauing the Post-Colonial
Body,” pp. 399-412.
video: Te Rua
Reading Paper #4 Due
14 where we once belonged, pp. 143-239
Voyaging…, Chapter 17 (DuPuis), “Romanticizing Colonialism: Power and
Pleasure in Jane Campion’s The Piano, pp. 349-374.
[R] Teaiwa, Teresia, “Lo(o)sing the Edge”
[R] Gegeo, David W., “Cultural Rupture and Indigeneity”
video: Back to the Roots; The Piano [exerpt]
21 Epeli Hau’ofa, Tales of the Tikongs, “The Seventh and Other Days;”
“The Winding Road to
Heaven;” “Old Wine in New Bottles;”
“The Tower of Babel;” “A Pilgrim’s Progress”
Voyaging…, Chapter 18 (Bolton),
“Radio and the Redefinition of Kastom in Vanuatu,” pp. 377-399
[R] A.J. Regan, “Causes and Course of
the Bougainville Conflict”
video: Our Island, Our Fight
Reading Paper #5 Due
27 Tales of the Tikongs, “The Wages of Sin;” “Paths to Glory;”
“The Second Coming;” “The Big
Bullshit;” “Blessed are the Meek;” “Bopeep’s Bells;” “The Glorious
Pacific Way”
Inside Out, Chapter 13, (Sinavaiana-Gabbard), “Where the Spirits
Laugh Last,” pp. 183-201.
Voyaging, Chapter 5 (Hau’ofa), “The Ocean in Us,” pp.113-130.
video: Fa’a Samoa
December
5 FINAL EXAM
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