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Transcript of The Contemporary Pacifi c
The Contemporary Pacifi c
A Journal of Island Affairs
Volume 20 • Number 2
2008
CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES
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Contents
about the artist: jewel castro vii
the pacific islands viii
articles
Alternative Market Values? Interventions into Auctions in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Haidy Geismar 291
The Army Learns to Luau: Imperial Hospitality and Military Photography in Hawai‘i
Adria L Imada 329
dialogue
“Aloha Spirit” and the Cultural Politics of Sentiment as National Belonging
Keiko Ohnuma 365
Interdisciplinarity and Pacifi c Studies: Roots and RoutesGraeme Whimp 397
political reviews
The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2007
Karin von Strokirch 424
Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2007David Chappell, Jon Fraenkel, Anita Jowitt, Brian Lenga 450
book and media reviews
A New Island [dvd]Micronesians Abroad [dvd]
Reviewed by Jim Hess 484
Rock of Contention: Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940–1945, by Kim MunhollandNouvelle-Calédonie 1945–1968: La Confi ance Trahie, by Jean Le Borgne, preface by Pierre Chaunu
Reviewed by David Chappell 487
The Power of Perspective: Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym, Vanuatu, by Knut Mikjel Rio
Reviewed by Lamont Lindstrom 490
Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society, by Holly Wardlow
Reviewed by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi 493
Our Wealth Is Loving Each Other: Self and Society in Fiji, by Karen J Brison
Reviewed by Matthew Tomlinson 495
Grassroots, Ceux qui votent [dvd]Reviewed by Carlos Mondragón 497
Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War, edited by Barbara Rose Johnston
Reviewed by Robert C Kiste 500
Texts and Contexts: Refl ections in Pacifi c Islands Historiog-raphy, edited by Doug Munro and Brij V Lal
Reviewed by Keith L Camacho 503
The Loneliness of Islands: Collected Poems 1976–2000, by Satendra Nandan
Reviewed by Seri I Luangphinith 506
Varua Tupu: New Writing from French Polynesia, edited by Frank Stewart, Kareva Mateatea-Allain, and Alexander Dale Mawyer
Reviewed by Robert Sullivan 508
New Ireland: Art of the South Pacifi c [exhibition, and catalog edited by Michael Gunn and Philippe Peltier]
Reviewed by Deborah Waite 510
Paul Jacoulet’s Vision of Micronesia [exhibition, and catalog by Donald Rubinstein]
Reviewed by Judy Flores 513
The Great Ocean Voyages: Vaka Moana and Island Life Today [exhibition]
Reviewed by Manami Yasui 516
Guitar Style, Open Tunings, and Stringband Music in Papua New Guinea, by Denis Crowdy
Reviewed by Brian Diettrich 518
contributors 523
