Touring Pacific Cultures

Kalissa Alexeyeff, John Taylor

• Publisher: ANU Press
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781922144263
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Tourism is vital to the economies of most Pacific nations and as such is an important site for the meaningful production of shared and disputed cultural values and practices. This is especially the case when tourism intersects with other important arenas for cultural production, both directly and in directly. Touring Pacific Cultures captures the central importance of tourism to the visual, material and performed cultures of the Pacific region. In this volume, we propose to explore new directions in understanding how culture is defined, produced, experienced and sustained through tourism-related practices across that region. We ask, how is cultural value, ownership, performance and commodification negotiated and experienced in actual lived practice as it moves with people across the Pacific?

Table of contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Images and Orthography
• Departures and Arrivals in Touring Pacific Cultures
• Hawai‘i: Prelude to a Journey
• Darkness and Light in Black and White: Travelling Mission Imagery from the New Hebrides
• Tourism
• The Cruise Ship
• Pitcairn and the Bounty Story
• Guys like Gauguin
• Statued (stat you?) Traditions
• Detouring Kwajalein: At Home Between Coral and Concrete in the Marshall Islands
• Yuki Kihara’s Culture for Sale and the History of Pacific Cultural Performance
• Native Realities in an Imaginary World: Contemporary Kanaka Maoli Art at Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa
• Moving Towers: Worlding the Spectacle of Masculinities Between South Pentecost and Munich
• Writing Home on the Pari and Touring in Pacific Studies
• Performing Indigenous Sovereignties across the Pacific
• New Pacific Portraits: Voices from the 11th Festival of Pacific Arts
• Great Works
• Ibu & Tufuga
• Cross-currents: Teana and Moenau, Tahitian Tourists in Seattle
• Carnet de Voyage en Irlande
• A Trip from Port Moresby to Suva
• Performing Cannibalism in the South Seas
• Touring ‘Real Life’? Authenticity and Village-based Tourism in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
• Suva, November ’97
• Pikinini in Paradise: Photography, Souvenirs and the ‘Child Native’ in Tourism
• Bandit Singsing: The Tourism Unexperience
• The Friendly Islands? Tonga’s Ambivalent Relationship with Tourism
• Re-purposing Paradise: Tourism, Image and Affect
• Local Tourist on a Bus Ride Home
• Mixed Bag of Tropical Sweets Sitting Outside the Hotel R & R
• Fiji: Reflections in the Infinity Pool
• Afterword: Ambivalence, Ambiguity and the ‘Wicked Problem’ of Pacific Tourist Studies
• Contributors