Once Were Pacific
Title | Once Were Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Te Punga Somerville |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Indigenous peoples |
ISBN | 9781452948003 |
Once Were Pacific considers how Maori and other Pacific peoples frame their connection to the ocean, to New Zealand, and to each other through various creative works. In this sustained treatment of the M ori diaspora, Maori scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville provides the first critical analysis of relationships between Indigenous and migrant communities in New Zealand.
Once Were Pacific
Title | Once Were Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Te Punga Somerville |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 299 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0816677565 |
Explores the relationship between indigeneity and migration among Maori and Pacific peoples
Once Were Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania
Title | Once Were Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Te Punga Somerville |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781299943537 |
Explores the relationship between indigeneity and migration among Māori and Pacific peoples
Otherwise Worlds
Title | Otherwise Worlds PDF eBook |
Author | Tiffany Lethabo King |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2020-05-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478012021 |
The contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries. Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient to understand the relationships between the groups, the volume's scholars, artists, and activists look to articulate new modes of living and organizing in the service of creating new futures. Among other topics, they examine the ontological status of Blackness and Indigeneity, possible forms of relationality between Black and Native communities, perspectives on Black and Indigenous sociality, and freeing the flesh from the constraints of violence and settler colonialism. Throughout the volume's essays, art, and interviews, the contributors carefully attend to alternative kinds of relationships between Black and Native communities that can lead toward liberation. In so doing, they critically point to the importance of Black and Indigenous conversations for formulating otherwise worlds. Contributors Maile Arvin, Marcus Briggs-Cloud, J. Kameron Carter, Ashon Crawley, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Chris Finley, Hotvlkuce Harjo, Sandra Harvey, Chad B. Infante, Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, Lindsay Nixon, Kimberly Robertson, Jared Sexton, Andrea Smith, Cedric Sunray, Se’mana Thompson, Frank B. Wilderson
The Great Ocean
Title | The Great Ocean PDF eBook |
Author | David Igler |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2013-05-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199914958 |
A groundbreaking and lyrically written work that explores the world of the Pacific Ocean.
The Platform
Title | The Platform PDF eBook |
Author | Melani Anae |
Publisher | Bridget Williams Books |
Total Pages | 121 |
Release | 2020-10-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1988587409 |
In a book that is both deeply personal and highly political, Melani Anae recalls the radical activism of Auckland’s Polynesian Panthers. In solidarity with the US Black Panther Party, the Polynesian Panthers was founded in response to the racist treatment of Pacific Islanders in the era of the Dawn Raids. Central to the group’s philosophy was a three-point ‘platform’ of peaceful resistance, Pacific empowerment and educating New Zealand about persistent and systemic racism.
Sailors and Traders
Title | Sailors and Traders PDF eBook |
Author | Alastair Couper |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 2008-12-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0824864239 |
Written by a senior scholar and master mariner, Sailors and Traders is the first comprehensive account of the maritime peoples of the Pacific. It focuses on the sailors who led the exploration and settlement of the islands and New Zealand and their seagoing descendants, providing along the way new material and unique observations on traditional and commercial seagoing against the background of major periods in Pacific history. The book begins by detailing the traditions of sailors, a group whose way of life sets them apart. Like all others who live and work at sea, Pacific mariners face the challenges of an often harsh environment, endure separation from their families for months at a time, revere their vessels, and share a singular attitude to risk and death. The period of prehistoric seafaring is discussed using archaeological data, interpretations from interisland exchanges, experimental voyaging, and recent DNA analysis. Sections on the arrival of foreign exploring ships centuries later concentrate on relations between visiting sailors and maritime communities. The more intrusive influx of commercial trading and whaling ships brought new technology, weapons, and differences in the ethics of trade. The successes and failures of Polynesian chiefs who entered trading with European-type ships are recounted as neglected aspects of Pacific history. As foreign-owned commercial ships expanded in the region so did colonialism, which was accompanied by an increase in the number of sailors from metropolitan countries and a decrease in the employment of Pacific islanders on foreign ships. Eventually small-scale island entrepreneurs expanded interisland shipping, and in 1978 the regional Pacific Forum Line was created by newly independent states. This was welcomed as a symbolic return to indigenous Pacific ocean linkages. The book’s final sections detail the life of the modern Pacific seafarer. Most Pacific sailors in the global maritime labor market return home after many months at sea, bringing money, goods, a wider perspective of the world, and sometimes new diseases. Each of these impacts is analyzed, particularly in the case of Kiribati, a major supplier of labor to foreign ships.