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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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