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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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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