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Journal articles on the topic "Western Polynesia"

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Gosden, C., J. Allen, W. Ambrose, D. Anson, J. Golson, R. Green, P. Kirch, I. Lilley, J. Specht, and M. Spriggs. "Lapita sites of the Bismarck Archipelago." Antiquity 63, no. 240 (September 1989): 561–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00076559.

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The Lapita questionThe prehistory of the western Pacific has, for the last 30 years, been dominated by the problem of the origins of the present Polynesian and Melanesian cultures (Terrell 1988). In 1961 Golson drew attention to the distribution of highly decorated Lapita pottery, now known to date from between 3500 BP and 2000 BP, which crossed the present-day division between Melanesia and Polynesia. Furthermore, sites with Lapita pottery represented the first evidence of occupation on Tonga and Samoa, the most westerly Polynesian islands from which it was thought that the rest of Polynesia was colonized. Lapita pottery came to be associated with a movement of people from Melanesia to Polynesia and was seen to represent the founding group ancestral to later Polynesian groups.
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Kirch, P. V., T. L. Hunt, and Jason Tyler. "A Radiocarbon Sequence from the Toaga Site, Ofu Island, American Samoa." Radiocarbon 31, no. 1 (1989): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200044568.

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The Samoan Archipelago occupies a critical position for understanding the dispersal of early Austronesian-speaking peoples into the southwestern Pacific, including the initial colonization by humans of the Polynesian triangle. To date, the most easterly reported site of the Lapita cultural complex (Green, 1979; Kirch, 1984; Kirch & Hunt, 1988) is the Mulifanua site on Upolu Island, Western Samoa (Green & Davidson, 1974). Lapita colonists settled the larger, western Samoan Islands by the end of the second millennium bc. Archaeologic and linguistic evidence also suggest that the islands of Eastern Polynesia (eg, Marquesas, Society and Cook Islands) were settled, at least in part, from Samoa. However, the timing of this movement into Eastern Polynesia has not yet been dated to earlier than ca 150 bc on the basis of radiocarbon dating of cultural materials from the Marquesas Islands (Kirch, 1986; Ottino, 1985). This has raised the issue of whether there was a “long pause” between the settlement of Samoa (and the other islands of Western Polynesia, such as Tonga, Futuna, and ‘Uvea) and that of Eastern Polynesia (Irwin, 1981; Kirch, 1986; Terrell, 1986).
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KLAUTAU, MICHELLE, MATHEUS VIEIRA LOPES, BRUNA GUARABYRA, ERIC FOLCHER, MERRICK EKINS, and CÉCILE DEBITUS. "Calcareous sponges from the French Polynesia (Porifera: Calcarea)." Zootaxa 4748, no. 2 (March 6, 2020): 261–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4748.2.3.

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Although the French Polynesian reefs are among the most well studied reefs of the world, sponges are still poorly known, with only 199 species or OTUs of sponges having been described from French Polynesia, 167 at an OTU level and 32 at a species level. From those 199 species, just five are calcareous sponges. As it is possible that this number is underestimated, the aim of the present work was to study the diversity of calcareous sponges from French Polynesia. Hence, different French Polynesian archipelagos were surveyed by SCUBA from 3 to 60 m of depth. Identifications were performed using morphological and molecular (ITS and C-LSU) tools. We found a total of nine species of Calcarea, comprising five different genera. Five species are new to science: Clathrina fakaravae sp. nov., Clathrina huahineae sp. nov., Ernstia variabilis sp. nov., Leucascus digitiformis sp. nov., and Leucandra tahuatae sp. nov. With the present work, the number of identified sponges from French Polynesia at a species level increased from 32 to 41. The only calcareous sponge previously known from French Polynesia that was recollected by our group was Leucetta chagosensis. Our results suggest that the Eastern Indo-Pacific Realm shows more affinity with the Central and the Western Indo-Pacific Realms. Four species supported these affinities: Ascandra cf. crewsi, previously known only from Papua New Guinea, Leucascus simplex from South Australia, and Leucetta chagosensis and L. microraphis, both widespread species in the Indo-Pacific. These two Leucetta species, however, most likely represent species complexes. Once again the molecular markers ITS and C-LSU helped in the identification of calcareous sponges, showing how important is an integrative taxonomy. Although our work has increased in 250% (6 spp to 15 spp) the diversity of calcareous sponges in French Polynesia, it is most possible that this number is still underestimated.
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DAVIDSON, JANET. "Western Polynesia and Fiji: The Archaeological Evidence." Mankind 11, no. 3 (May 13, 2010): 383–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.1978.tb00667.x.

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SMITH, TOM. "ISLANDERS, PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES, AND TRADITIONS REGARDING THE PAST IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY POLYNESIA." Historical Journal 60, no. 1 (August 4, 2016): 71–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x16000157.

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ABSTRACTIn this article, I consider Polynesian genealogies, which took the form of epic poems composed and recited by specialist genealogists, and were handed down orally through generations of Polynesians. Some were written down in the nineteenth century, reaching an English-speaking audience through a number of works largely neglected by historians. In recent years, some anthropologists have downplayed the possibility of learning anything significant about Polynesian thought through English-language sources, but I show that there is still fresh historical insight to be gained in demonstrating how genealogies came to interact with the traditions of outsiders in the nineteenth century. While not seeking to make any absolute claims about genealogy itself, I analyse a wide body of English-language literature, relating chiefly to Hawai‘i, and see emerging from it suggestions of a dynamic Polynesian oral tradition responsive to political, social, and religious upheaval. Tellingly, Protestant missionaries arriving in the islands set their own view of history against this supposedly irrelevant tradition, and in doing so disagreed with late nineteenth-century European and American colonists and scholars who sought to emphasize the historical significance of genealogy. Thus, Western ideas about history found themselves confounded and fragmented by Polynesian traditions.
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F. Recher, H. "Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia." Pacific Conservation Biology 9, no. 3 (2003): 234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc030234.

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FEW taxa have suffered at the expansion of humanity to the extent of the birds of Pacific Islands. Of the 130 or so birds to become extinct as a consequence of European exploration and colonization of the Pacific, most were island birds and most were flightless rails. Not so well understood is the scale of extinctions that accompanied pre-European colonization of the Pacific islands. Only now is the paleontological record revealing the richness of the lost Pacific avifauna much of which can be put on a par with the loss of moas from New Zealand and the Dodo Raphus cucullatus from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
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Meehan, Hayley J., Kim R. McConkey, and Donald R. Drake. "Potential disruptions to seed dispersal mutualisms in Tonga, Western Polynesia." Journal of Biogeography 29, no. 5-6 (May 2002): 695–712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2699.2002.00718.x.

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MONNIOT, F., and C. MONNIOT. "A deep water Ascidia (Ascidiidae, Tunicata) from the tropical western Pacific." Zootaxa 1168, no. 1 (April 6, 2006): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1168.1.4.

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A single, solitary, free living ascidian, Ascidia alisea sp.nov., collected from a sandy substrate on the Austral Ridge (Polynesia) between 120 and 203 meters depth, is ovoid with a layer of sandy debris adhering to the tunic and has distinctive body muscles and neural area and an unusual course of its vas deferens.
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Pugach, Irina, Alexander Hübner, Hsiao-chun Hung, Matthias Meyer, Mike T. Carson, and Mark Stoneking. "Ancient DNA from Guam and the peopling of the Pacific." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 1 (December 21, 2020): e2022112118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022112118.

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Humans reached the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific by ∼3,500 y ago, contemporaneous with or even earlier than the initial peopling of Polynesia. They crossed more than 2,000 km of open ocean to get there, whereas voyages of similar length did not occur anywhere else until more than 2,000 y later. Yet, the settlement of Polynesia has received far more attention than the settlement of the Marianas. There is uncertainty over both the origin of the first colonizers of the Marianas (with different lines of evidence suggesting variously the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, or the Bismarck Archipelago) as well as what, if any, relationship they might have had with the first colonizers of Polynesia. To address these questions, we obtained ancient DNA data from two skeletons from the Ritidian Beach Cave Site in northern Guam, dating to ∼2,200 y ago. Analyses of complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequences and genome-wide SNP data strongly support ancestry from the Philippines, in agreement with some interpretations of the linguistic and archaeological evidence, but in contradiction to results based on computer simulations of sea voyaging. We also find a close link between the ancient Guam skeletons and early Lapita individuals from Vanuatu and Tonga, suggesting that the Marianas and Polynesia were colonized from the same source population, and raising the possibility that the Marianas played a role in the eventual settlement of Polynesia.
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Steadman, David W. "Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia Dick Watling." Auk 119, no. 4 (October 2002): 1209–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4090256.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Western Polynesia"

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Vaai, Sina Mary Theresa, and n/a. "Literary representations in western Polynesia : colonialism and indigeneity." University of Canberra. Communication, Media & Tourism, 1995. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061109.163049.

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Images of Oceania and Polynesia have traditionally been exoticised and romanticised by Western representations of a "paradise" populated by primitive natives with grass skirts and ukuleles. However, the movement towards political independence in the 1960s and 1970s has seen the emergence of a corpus of indigenous representations that depict and portray the real situation. These indigenous representations speak of subjugation and moreover testify to the debilitating effects colonialism has on cultural identities. The geographical area covered by this thesis is Western Polynesia, specifically the Pacific Island nations of Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa and is concerned with literary representations. The thesis examines significant developments and trends in the creative writing of indigenous and migrant writers in these three countries of Western Polynesia: Western Samoa, Tonga and Fiji, seeing these literary representations from within as a writing out of multi-faceted aspects of the shifting identities of Pacific peoples in a post-colonial world. The introduction focuses on the historical colonial/post-colonial context of Western Polynesian writing and the socio-political imperatives for change which have had an impact on these writers and the texts they have produced. It also discusses the literary and anthropological representation of these Islanders from the 'outside', from the perspective of a European hegemonic self, forming the 'orientalist' stereotypes against which the initial texts written by the Pacific's colonised 'others' in the early 1970's reacted so strongly. Chapter One sets out the conceptual framework within which these texts will be discussed and analysed, beginning with indigenous and local concepts which indigenous and migrant Pacific Islanders use to connect and accommodate different 'ways of seeing' this representative body of literature, then moving on to other theorists concerned with literary representation and post-coloniality. Chapters Two to Nine explore the writing of these three countries, beginning with the fiction of Albert Wendt, one of the major writers from Western Polynesia who has an established regional and international literary reputation, and then progressing to focus on other selected representative writers of the three countries, including those in the early stages of attempting publication. The thesis concludes by discussing the texts from all three countries and tying them together in the various thematic strands of cultural clash, the widening of borders, the quest for self-definition and national identity in the contemporary Pacific, reiterating major points and examining possible future directions in Western Polynesian writing. The study takes an interdisciplinary approach to the critical analysis of Western Polynesian literature, maintaining the importance of seeing them as important forms of cultural communication in post-colonial contexts, as literary representations from the inside, writing out of a cultural consciousness which values the various 'pasts' of Polynesia as definitive 'maps' which provide the grids and bridges which Pacific Islanders in this part of Oceania can utilise to mediate their experiences and articulate their identities, to fit the widening boundaries of the Pacific into a post-colonial global context.
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Zenel, Christine A. "A Paradoxical Paradise: The Marquesas as a Degenerate and Regenerative Space in the Western Imagination." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/419.

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The Western imagination has ascribed histories and identities of the Marquesas Islands throughout centuries of evolving discourses and representations as a paradoxical paradise, bolstering colonialist ideologies of social evolutionary theory. The islands have either been represented as backwards on a social scale to justify Western dominance, or have been represented as being in a state of authentic human nature out of colonial guilt and imperialist nostalgia. These representations reveal a paradox in which the Marquesas is ascribed in the Western imagination as a degenerate space, yet also as a space where the regeneration of human nature is made possible— provided that a time-backwards Marquesas is dependent on a civilized West.
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Rakena, Te Oti. "The synthesis of Polynesian and western traditions in contemporary New Zealand composers /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Abdul, Hadi Nurul Ikhlas. "Mothers, lovers others : an evolutionary analysis of womanhood in Western Malayo-Polynesian oral traditions." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16876/.

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This thesis is the first to study female characters from Western Malayo-Polynesian oral tradition. It is also the first to apply an evolutionary literary analysis to these stories. The aim was to analyse the life history cycle of women as portrayed in oral stories from the Western Malayo-Polynesian language group, which includes languages spoken across southern Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, the island states of western Micronesia, and Madagascar. The general principle behind evolutionary literary theory is that any knowledge (including stories) generated by the mind is a biological phenomenon and worthy of scientific study. This tenet is then compounded with an evolutionary understanding of life whereby all animals, including humans, are driven to ensure somatic success through the preservation of life, and reproductive success through the proliferation of genes. It is argued that oral stories contain implicit evolutionary ‘lessons’ that may assist humans in obtaining somatic and reproductive success. The most recurring evolutionary theme in female-led Western Malayo-Polynesian oral stories revolves around reproductive success, with approximately 90% of stories in this thesis focusing either on family life or the search for a partner. In the section ‘Tales of Family Life’, stories portray the complexity of family dynamics, showing how family members must sacrifice their selfish interests for the sake of their kin in order to maximize the propagation of their genes. In ‘Tales of Searching for a Partner’, heroines take part in complex mate attraction and retention strategies, showing that the search for a ‘Happily Ever After’ (or evolutionary fitness) is not always a straightforward journey. Unsurprisingly, themes without direct correlations with evolutionary fitness form only 10% of the entire corpus. ‘Tales Beyond Family and Partners’ attempt to explore stories of evolutionary anomalies through the phenomenon of childfree and heroic women. Evolutionary studies, however, have yet to provide a satisfactory theory on women whose behaviour seems to hold little or no reproductive advantages, and analysis of these types of stories would benefit from further research. As a multidisciplinary study, this thesis is able to impact future research in three different ways. Firstly, it is hoped that it will bring attention to and increase knowledge of the lesser known and under-studied Western Malayo-Polynesian oral traditions. Secondly, the thesis can also serve as a model for the application of evolutionary theory to the folkloric study of oral stories. Finally, it shows the potential of applying evolutionary literary theory to non-Western cultures. It is hoped that future research will be able to expand the findings of this thesis either through larger or more concentrated pools of data, with the aim of emphasizing the universal drives that underlie our common humanity.
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Iwata, Taro. "When Injustice Becomes Justice: Western Domination Over Hawai'i Through Political Mythmaking." 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/21104.

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Books on the topic "Western Polynesia"

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Va'ai, Sina. Literary representations in Western Polynesia: Colonialism and indigeneity. Le Papa-I-Galagala [Samoa]: National University of Samoa, 1999.

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Thomas, Allan. Report on survey of music in Tokelau, Western Polynesia. Auckland, N.Z: Dept. of Anthropology, University of Auckland, 1988.

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Tcherk, Serge. First Contacts in Polynesia: The Samoan Case Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity. Canberra: ANU Press, 2008.

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Tcherkézoff, Serge. "First contacts" in Polynesia: The Samoan case (1722-1848) : Western misunderstandings about sexuality and divinity. Canberra: ANU E Press, 2008.

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Tradition versus democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga, and Western Samoa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Brady, Ivan Arthur. Land tenure, kinship and community structure: Strategies for living in the Ellice Islands of Western Polynesia. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1990.

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Watling, Dick. A guide to the birds of Fiji & Western Polynesia: Including American Samoa, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Wallis-Futuna. Suva, Fiji: Environmental Consultants, 2001.

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Speaking to power: Gender and politics in the western Pacific. New York: Routledge, 1995.

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Melanesia and the western Polynesian fringe. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1990.

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Whistler, W. Arthur. Checklist of the weed flora of Western Polynesia: An annotated list of the weed species of Samoa, Tonga, Niue, and Wallis and Futuna, along with the earliest dates of collection and the local names. Noumea, New Caledonia: South Pacific Commission, 1988.

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Book chapters on the topic "Western Polynesia"

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Mueller-Dombois, Dieter, and F. Raymond Fosberg. "Western Polynesia." In Ecological Studies, 341–84. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8686-3_7.

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Feinberg, Richard. "Navigation in Polynesia." In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 3344–49. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7747-7_9336.

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Liller, William. "Ancient Astronomical Monuments in Polynesia." In Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 127–60. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4179-6_5.

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Esteban, César. "Astronomical Monuments in Polynesia and Micronesia." In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 1–12. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_9105-2.

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Esteban, César. "Astronomical Monuments in Polynesia and Micronesia." In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 657–67. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7747-7_9105.

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Blake, Barry J. "Passives in Western Malayo-Polynesian." In Historical Linguistics 1997, 15. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.164.02bla.

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Feinberg, Richard, and Marianne George. "Seafaring in the Polynesian Outliers." In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 3917–26. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7747-7_9330.

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Orchiston, Wayne. "A Polynesian Astronomical Perspective: The Maori of New Zealand." In Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 161–96. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4179-6_6.

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Arvin, Maile. "Polynesia Is a Project, Not a Place." In Beyond Ethnicity. University of Hawai'i Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824869885.003.0003.

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This chapter examines the Western idea that Polynesians are an almost white race and the significant ideological work this racial construction does for naturalizing both settler colonialism and white supremacy in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. The central argument is that Polynesia has been the target of a logic of possession through whiteness, whereby the identification of Polynesians as being in close proximity to whiteness has allowed white settlers to feel entitled to possession of Polynesian lands, culture, and bodies. The chapter analyzes the origin of this logic in the history of social science—particularly examining the complicated position of Te Rangihiroa, a Maori anthropologist who upheld the ideal of Polynesians being properly classified as white. It then turns to a more recent example of the representation of Pacific Islanders as almost white in the 2012 movie Cloud Atlas. The Cloud Atlas analysis considers how anti-blackness, techno-Orientalism and anti-indigeneity converge in the film’s universalist narrative about human transcendence. Overall, the chapter seeks not simply to “correct” false images about Polynesians, but to argue for the hard work of recognizing and challenging settler colonialism and white supremacy especially in the context of ongoing celebrations of Hawaiʻi as a supposedly “race-free” melting pot.
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Sand, Christophe. "The Abandonment of Alofi Island (Western Polynesia) before Missionary Times." In Historical Archaeology of Early Modern Colonialism in Asia-Pacific. University Press of Florida, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813054759.003.0003.

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Although early contact in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries between Europeans and Pacific Islanders have been well documented from historical data, the possible local impacts on Oceanians have rarely been analyzed in any detail. Indigenous oral traditions and archaeology appear today as primary sources that complement the information from written records related to “discovery” expeditions and missionary-colonial testimonies. This chapter proposes to synthesize the data at hand on the Island of Alofi. Facing Futuna in Western Polynesia and known to have experienced a multi-millennia human settlement, the Island of Alofi was devoid of permanent occupation at the arrival of the French Missionaries in 1837. Relying on different sources, I will make the case of a probable first early-population collapse due primarily to the consequences of their first encounter, in 1616, with the Dutch expedition of Le Maire and Schouten. An alternative scenario of the recent History of the Archipelago will be proposed, revising the orthodox mainstream publications on the subject. The regional as well as global outcomes of this proposal are far-reaching as they impact our understanding of political changes in the Fiji-West Polynesian triangle as well as question the relevance of anthropological categories used in social reconstructions.
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