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Discussion: Museum of Peoples and Cultures
Visit BYU’s Museum of Peoples and Cultures and post that discusses the exhibitions your saw and how they might relate to the issues discussed in your section on September 14th.
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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…