Category: Oceania
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Discussion: In Football We Trust
Assignment: Film Review Anthropology of Oceania For your film review, join in the discussion about In Football We Trust. Watch: Vainuku, T and E. Cohn (2015) In Football We Trust. Read: Uperesa, F.L. (2014). Fabled Futures: Migration and Mobility for Samoans in American Football. The Contemporary Pacific 26(2): 281-301. What did you find surprising about the…
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Discussion: Democracy and Hierarchy
Anthropology of Oceania Siikala, J. (2014). Hierarchy and power in the Pacific. Anthropological Theory 14(2): 215-230. Lipset, D.M. (1989). “Papua New Guinea: The Melanesian Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism, 1975-1986.” In Democracy in Developing Countries: Asia, eds. L. Diamond, et al., Pp. 383-421. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. Anthropology of Oceania
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Discussion: Moana
Assignment: Film Review Anthropology of Oceania For your film review, join in the discussion about indigenous critiques of Disney’s Moana. Watch: Disney’s Moana. and then watch: Kaʻili, T.O. (2017, Dec. 14). In the Beginning was the Ocean”: Pacific Cosmogony in Epeli Hauʻofa’s Oceania and Disneyʼs Moana. The Australian Association for Pacific Studies. What did you find surprising about…
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Discussion: Kumu Hina
Assignment: Film Review Anthropology of Oceania For your film review, join in the discussion about Kumu Hina. Watch: Hamer, D. and J. Wilson (2015) Kumu Hina (1hr 15 mins]). The film is available on Netflix. Read: Good, M.K. (2014). “The Fokisi and the Fakaleitī: Provocative Performances in Tonga” In Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific…
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Discussion: Iosepa, Utah
Anthropology of Oceania Watch: BBC (n.d.). How Polynesians survive in Utah. BBC. Read: Selections from Kester, M. (2015). Remembering Iosepa: History, Place, and Religion in the American West. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. Anthropology of Oceania