{"title":"Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town, Anthony J. Pickles (2019)","authors":"F. Ortiz","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00099_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00099_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town, Anthony J. Pickles (2019)New York: Berghahn Books, 216 pp.,ISBN 978 1 78920 221 2 (hbk), US$135","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121852130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing, Sean Mallon and Sébastien Galliot (2018)","authors":"Hilke Thode-Arora","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00100_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00100_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing, Sean Mallon and Sébastien Galliot (2018)Wellington: Te Papa Press, 320 pp.,ISBN 978 0 99413 624 4 (hbk), NZ$75.00","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132401581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora te manuhiri’ (‘With your food basket, and my food basket, the visitors will be fed’): Alterity, exchange and translation in Patricia Grace’s Chappy (2015)","authors":"A. Orzechowska","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00091_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00091_1","url":null,"abstract":"In Chappy (2015), Patricia Grace offers an insightful glimpse into the complexities of cross-cultural communication as she recounts the vicissitudes of a Māori‐Japanese‐Hawaiian family throughout the course of the twentieth century. This article focuses on\u0000 the representation of alterity as an empowering source of enrichment for individuals and communities by referencing Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics of the Other. It is argued that Chappy emphasizes the significance of cherishing Otherness in its infinity, instead of attempting to enclose\u0000 it in well-established frameworks. In doing so, the novel grants precedence to interaction immersed in the Levinasian ‘saying’ ‐ being together, listening to each other and exchanging stories, viewpoints and languages without establishing the relations of domination and\u0000 subordination ‐ over communication entrenched in the ‘said’, whose aim is to gain the complete understanding of the Other. In this context, the article discusses the motif of translation. And while translation aims to transform the foreign into the familiar, it functions\u0000 in the novel not as a tool for abolishing alterity, but as a contact zone where different cultures enter into a creative dialogue. Translating stories is portrayed as a communal activity, whereby all those involved encounter one another on equal terms, contributing their own experiences and\u0000 perceptions of the world ‐ their respective baskets from the Māori proverb referred to in this article’s title.","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125969389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transculturation and counter-narratives: The life and art of the Wurundjeri artist William Barak","authors":"Elżbieta Wilczyńska","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00092_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00092_1","url":null,"abstract":"A few decades ago the culture of Aboriginal Australians was believed to have been removed or assigned to the margins. It was considered static and primitive, produced by uncivilized and barbaric peoples. Since the 1980s the view has been successfully challenged and recent art histories\u0000 produced in settler colonial countries emphasize that Indigenous cultures were neither stuck in the past nor resistant to change. Its development was due to contact between the Indigenous and settler societies and the cross-cultural interactions the contact engendered in political, social\u0000 and artistic life. This was often against the backdrop of conquest and displacement, which was the result of colonization. Adopting as the main frame of the discussion the theory of transculturation and the concept of counter-narrative from cultural studies, this article will show these different\u0000 types of encounters and their influence on the life and art of William Barak, a nineteenth-century Aboriginal Australian statesman, leader of a Woi Wurrung nation and an artist. It will also show ‐ again through transculturation ‐ what trajectory the Australian mainstream society\u0000 followed from initial separation and exclusion, through assimilation to an integration of Indigenous Australians in the artistic and social life. The counter-narrative concocted on the basis of those encounters produces a nuanced picture of loss, survival and strength as experienced by William\u0000 Barak and his peoples.","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125571877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keri Hulme (1947‐2021)","authors":"Susan Y. Najita, Bruce C. Harding","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00093_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00093_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116686559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redefining colonial identities in contemporary transnational westerns: Tracker (2010) and Black ’47 (2018)","authors":"Marek Paryż","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00089_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00089_1","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I discuss two contemporary films that exemplify the use of the western genre for historical reassessments in varied national contexts: Tracker (2010, dir. Ian Sharp, New Zealand/UK) and Black ’47 (2018, dir. Lance Daly, Ireland). The two films employ\u0000 similar plot structures, based on the motif of pursuit. In Tracker, set in the aftermath of the Boer wars, a former Boer fighter, now in New Zealand, searches for an assimilated Māori sailor who has been accused of killing a British soldier. In Black ’47, set in Ireland\u0000 at the time of the Great Famine, an Irishman who served in the British colonial army in the Middle East strives to take revenge on the landowner responsible for the death of his relatives. A mission is organized to prevent him, led by an alienated veteran of the colonial wars. Tracker\u0000 and Black ’47 show that as a result of colonization various directions of mobility emerged that triggered reinventions of predefined identities within the colonizer/colonized binary. In the two films under discussion, the use of the western helps to address the problem of identity\u0000 construction by exploring the experience of liminality as a factor behind the dissolution of colonial cultural hierarchies. The protagonists of Tracker and Black ’47 embody the kind of mobility that signifies lasting displacement, seen as a larger syndrome of the era of\u0000 colonial empires.","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126785445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scoundrels and Eccentrics of the Pacific, John Dunmore (2018)","authors":"R. Lansdown","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00096_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00096_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Scoundrels and Eccentrics of the Pacific, John Dunmore (2018)Auckland: Upstart Press, 192 pp.,ISBN 978 1 98851 621 9 (pbk), NZ$39.99","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130718181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adrienne Kaeppler (1935‐2022)","authors":"Heather L. Waldroup","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00095_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00095_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132279350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A History of Kiribati: From the Earliest Times to the 40th Anniversary of the Republic, Michael Ravell Walsh (2020)","authors":"Roy Smith","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00098_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00098_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: A History of Kiribati: From the Earliest Times to the 40th Anniversary of the Republic, Michael Ravell Walsh (2020)Independently Published, 555 pp.,ISBN 979 8 69535 895 7 (pbk), £15.00","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122167552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}