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Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies - Volume 8, Issue 1, 2020
Volume 8, Issue 1, 2020
- Editorial
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- Articles
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Pacific photographs from the Vanadis expedition, 1883–85
More LessThe Vanadis expedition was a Swedish–Norwegian scientific and trade mission that circumnavigated the globe between 1883 and 1885. The scientific aspect of the expedition focused on the collection of objects, archaeological excavations and the documentation of the peoples, places and material culture encountered on the voyage. Responsible for much of this collecting and documentation was ethnographer Hjalmar Stolpe, as well as photographer Oscar Birger Ekholm. An estimated 7500 objects from the Vanadis expedition today form part of Etnografiska museet (The Museum of Ethnography) collections in Stockholm, over 900 of which came from the Pacific. These were acquired/purchased from Indigenous and western residents in all places the ship stopped including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Hawaiian Islands and Marshall Islands. Of the roughly 700 photographs taken during the voyage, just over 200 were taken in the Pacific. Ekholm’s photographic record from the Pacific includes studies of people and portraits, land and seascapes, archaeological sites, dwellings and marine transportation. Providing an overview of Ekholm’s photographs from the Vanadis expedition, this article seeks to contextualize his photography, situating it within the wider context of collecting with which he and Stolpe were concerned. It will further consider the racial stereotypes, interest in practices such as tattooing and overall aims of the expedition that prompted this photographic documentation.
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Henry Adams in Tahiti
By Prue AhrensWhile touring Tahiti in 1891, the American historian Henry Adams compiled an album of large-scale photographic prints that he purchased from commercial studios in Papeete. Souvenir album making was a popular pursuit amongst nineteenth-century Euro-American travellers who used the opportunity to project, validate and narrate desired travel experiences. Unlike others, Adams’s album is seemingly random and banal and lacks any clear narrative. This article attempts to make sense of Adams’s album. It asks to what extent the photographs performed their common function and validated Adams’s experience and expectations of Tahiti. It questions what the album reflects of Adams’s background, tastes and position in the islands as an elite traveller. It considers what was available for Adams to purchase from Papeete’s commercial studios, businesses that traded at a key moment in Tahiti’s complex colonial history. This article suggests that the album is a site where Adams’s desires and despair in colonial Tahiti overlap and contradict. Ultimately, it is a sign of his disappointment in photography as a medium incapable of capturing his island experiences.
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‘Record of my journeyings in the Coral Sea’: Randolph Bedford’s 1906 album of the Solomon Islands
By Max QuanchiAlbums and scrapbooks are rarely the focus of research. This article examines the motivation and context for a unique and rare album compiled by a ‘special correspondent’ – George Randolph Bedford, an aspiring Federal politician, journalist and writer – who visited the Solomon Islands in 1906 on a personal fact-finding mission. His scrapbook contains 212 photographs and a series of articles on the Solomon Islands that he had published in illustrated weekend newspapers in Australia in 1906 and early 1907. The Australian colonies had just federated, Britain had just passed control of Papua to Australia and, in the New Hebrides, Britain and France were about to announce a condominium had been formed. Tonga, Niue and the Cook Islands were also the subject of imperial manoeuvring. In Queensland, Kanakas were being sent home as the labour trade was abolished. The scrapbook is therefore a window on to imperial diplomacy, colonial expansion and Australian visions of a relationship with the Pacific, the boom in illustrated newspapers, early photography and personal ambition to become an expert on the islands.
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Exquisite wonder: Colour film, realism and the Yankee voyage, 1936–38
More LessThis article looks at rare Kodachrome film taken across Oceania, mostly shot by a skilled amateur filmmaker, Edmund Zacher, to document the circumnavigation of the famous clipper Yankee. There are three intertwined lines of inquiry traced here. The first explores relations between US imperialism, moving image media and a popular imaginary, considering how experiences of virtual travel engage with cultural ideology. The second examines how this footage may be interpreted: how might critical frameworks brought to bear on amateur non-fiction differ from those commonly applied to professional and narrative fiction film? A key reference point is the theory of cinematic gesture developed by Giorgio Agamben, who expands on the work of Gilles Deleuze and his notion of the movement image. This stress on gesture and on the mediality of moving images leads towards a third key area under consideration: colour and the (then) new medium of Kodachrome. Homing in on relations between colour stock and motion picture realism, this study explores the ways that Kodachrome colour might have affected broader perceptions of the world itself.
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Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Pacific Island Countries, Jenny Bryant-Tokalau (2018)
By Roy SmithReview of: Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Pacific Island Countries, Jenny Bryant-Tokalau (2018)
Cham: Palgrave Pivot, 111 pp.,
ISBN 978 3 319 78398 7 (hbk), £44.99
Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Aotearoa/New Zealand, Lyn Carter (2019)
Cham: Palgrave Pivot, 106 pp.,
ISBN 978 3 319 96438 6 (hbk), £49.99
Combatting Climate Change in the Pacific: The Role of Regional Organizations, Marc Williams and Duncan McDuie-Ra (2018)
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 136 pp.,
ISBN 978 3 319 88816 3 (pbk), £44.99
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Dead Letters: Censorship and Subversion in New Zealand 1914–1920, Jared Davidson (2019)
More LessReview of: Dead Letters: Censorship and Subversion in New Zealand 1914–1920, Jared Davidson (2019)
Dunedin: Otago University Press, 296 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 98853 152 6 (pbk), NZ$35
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New Zealand Society at War 1914–1918, Steven Loveridge (ed.) (2016)
More LessReview of: New Zealand Society at War 1914–1918, Steven Loveridge (ed.) (2016)
Wellington: Victoria University Press, 416 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 77656 060 8 (pbk), NZ$40
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Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War, Stevan Eldred-Grigg and Hugh Eldred-Grigg (2017)
More LessReview of: Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War, Stevan Eldred-Grigg and Hugh Eldred-Grigg (2017)
Dunedin: Otago University Press, 427 pp.,
ISBN 978 0 94752 223 0 (pbk), NZ$49.95
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Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood: Protection and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire, Amanda Nettelbeck (2019)
More LessReview of: Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood: Protection and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire, Amanda Nettelbeck (2019)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 232 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 10847 175 6 (hbk), £75.00
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Tupuna Awa: People and Politics of the Waikato River, Marama Muru-Lanning (2016)
More LessReview of: Tupuna Awa: People and Politics of the Waikato River, Marama Muru-Lanning (2016)
Auckland: Auckland University Press, 256 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 86940 850 3 (pbk), NZ$49.99
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Return to Kahiki: Native Hawaiians in Oceania, Kealani Cook (2019)
More LessReview of: Return to Kahiki: Native Hawaiians in Oceania, Kealani Cook (2019)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 270 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 31664 699 1 (pbk), £22.99
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Tulagi: Pacific Outpost of British Empire, Clive Moore (2019)
By Max QuanchiReview of: Tulagi: Pacific Outpost of British Empire, Clive Moore (2019)
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 472 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 76046 308 3 (pbk), AUS$60
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The Pretender of Pitcairn Island: Joshua W. Hill – The Man Who Would be King Among the Bounty Mutineers, Tillman W. Nechtman (2018)
More LessReview of: The Pretender of Pitcairn Island: Joshua W. Hill – The Man Who Would be King Among the Bounty Mutineers, Tillman W. Nechtman (2018)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 344 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 10844 080 6 (pbk), £21.99
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First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960–1985, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi (ed.) (2018)
By Dario PiloReview of: First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960–1985, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi (ed.) (2018)
Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 262 pp.,
ISBN 978 0 82487 209 0 (hbk), $68
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The Shapeshifting Crown: Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK, Cris Shore and David V. Williams (eds) (2019)
More LessReview of: The Shapeshifting Crown: Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK, Cris Shore and David V. Williams (eds) (2019)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 288 pp.,
ISBN 978 1 10849 646 9 (hbk), £85
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