Whose Paradise? Encounter, Exchange, and Exploitation.
Representing the South Pacific
“Introduction” and Chapter 1: “Representation and Indigenous Subjectivity.” In Imagining the Other: the Representation of Papua New Guineans Subject
“Imagining Oceania: Indigenous and Foreign Representations of a Sea of Islands.”
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Students in New Zealand thought this Disney movie stole island culture, but students in Samoa celebrated it as a moment of pride

Moana

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Epeli Hau‘ofa argued that Pacific Islanders were never isolated, but rather inhabited a "sea of..."

Islands

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Stella uses this term to refer to European works about PNG that have created European imaginations that "occupy positions of truth"

"fraudulent texts"

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The word for this in many Austronesian languages is the same as the word for placenta

land/whenua/fanua/vanua/fonua

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T/F The authors say it is a mistake to separate islanders strictly into those living on home islands and those living away from their home islands (Diaspora)

True

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Tahitian priest drew a famous map for Captain Cook showing 74 islands scattered around Tahiti

Tupaia

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Stella uses this term from the intro of Orientalism to describe how representation is a "mimesis"

re-presence

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Australia uses this term to refer to Oceania that conveys Australia's "special privileged relation" to the region and its ability to act as a "proxy" for US interests

"Pacific region"

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Samoan artist who created a photo series called Fa‘afafine, which means "In the Manner of"

Yuki Kihara

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In the 19th century, Europeans created a myth that this group of islanders was facing inevitable extinction

"dying Polynesian"
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Stella references Papuan carvings of this material to analogize how re-presentations cannot have a fixed origin because they are dependent on the culture of the representer

plastic

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Jolly references the ___ ___ between Maori and Pasifika Kiwis against the pakeha settler state as an example of how Pacific people build connections "beyond and within nation-states" in the image of Hauʻofa

"ambivalent kinship"

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Pacific activists used traditional canoes in Australia to prove they were not drowning but...

Fighting

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Colonial historians often used the "fatal-impact" theory, which claimed that native Pacific cultures were completely destroyed after contact with who?

Europeans (or Westerners)

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Stella uses this concept from Fanon to describe the psychological consequences of being reduced to ones "essences" by colonial gaze

neurotic orientation

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This Maori sculptor's piece Three Standing Stones used a shared heritage of Lapita pottery to subvert the European construction of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia

Brett Graham