The Journal of the Polynesian Society VOLUME 113 No.1 MARCH 2004 THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND
the journal of the polynesian society Volume 113 MARCH 2004 number 1 Editor JUDITH HUNTSMAN Review Editor MARK BUSSE Editorial Assistants CLAUDIA GROSS DOROTHY BROWN Published quarterly by the Polynesian Society (Inc.), Auckland, New Zealand
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Volume 113 MARCH 2004 number 1 CONTENTS Notes and News... 5 Articles ERIC SCHWIMMER The Local and the Universal: Reflections on Contemporary Mäori Literature in response to Blood Narrative by Chadwick Allen... 7 J.D. GOULD Regional Differences in Mäori Income in the 2001 Population Census... 37 jacinta RURU A Politically Fuelled Tsunami: The Foreshore/Seabed Controversy in Aotearoa me te Wai Pounamu/New Zealand... 57 DIMITRI ANSON What s in a Name? The House Carvings that Dr Hocken gave to The Otago Museum... 73 Reviews Ballantyne, Tony: Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire. IAN MALCOMSON... 91 Boelaars, Jan H.M.C. and Arnold Blom: Mono Koame: wij denken ook. jaap TIMMER... 93
illouz, charles: De chair et de pierre: Essai de mythologie kanak (Maré-Îles Loyauté). anna paini... 97 jaarsma, sjoerd (ed.): Handle With Care: Ownership and Control of Ethnographic Materials. linus s. DiGiM rina... 99 lal, Brij V. and peter hempenstall (eds): Pacific Lives, Pacific Places: Bursting Boundaries in Pacific History. WolfGanG KeMpf... 102 Matiu, Mccully and Margaret Mutu: Te Whänau Moana: Ngä Kaupapa me ngä Tikanga, Customs and Protocols. jim WilliaMs (ngäi tahu)... 104 strathern, andrew, pamela j. stewart, laurence M. carucci, lin poyer, richard feinberg and cluny Macpherson: Oceania: An Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Pacific Islanders. Grant Mccall... 106 Publications Received... 109 Publications of The Polynesian Society... 110 4
NOTES AND NEWS Contributors to This Issue Dimitri Anson is Curator in Humanities at Otago Museum and a Research Fellow at the Anthropology Department of the University of Otago in Dunedin. He has carried out archaeological fieldwork in the Pacific and conducted analyses of the style and composition of ancient pottery from the Pacific and Mediterranean regions. At the Museum he has published catalogues and curated exhibition projects of the Mäori/Pacific and Old World ethnology and archaeology collections. John Gould was appointed to New Zealand s first Chair in Economic History, which was established at Victoria University of Wellington in 1984, and held the position until his retirement 20 years later. He has published extensively on English, international and New Zealand economic history. His post-retirement publications have concentrating mainly on aspects of the New Zealand population, including its international migration component and the socio-economic characteristics of its major ethnic minorities. Jacinta Ruru (Ngäti Raukawa ki Waikato me Ngäi te Rangi ki Tauranga) is a lecturer in Law at the University of Otago, where she lectures on Maori land law and property law. Her research interests include indigenous peoples rights, environmental law and succession. Eric Schwimmer was born in Amsterdam and arrived in New Zealand at the age of 17 with his parents in 1940. His studies at Victoria University of Wellington were interrupted by war service with the Netherlands East Indies Army, where he learned the rudiments of colonialism. In 1949 he was awarded an M.A. in Latin by Victoria University. The following year he joined the Department of Mäori Affairs, where he edited the quarterly journal Te Ao Hou from its inception in 1952 until he left the Department in 1961. Near the end of his employment there, he did some schoolteaching and ethnographic research in the Whangaruru District. He undertook graduate studies in anthropology at the University of British Columbia, and while there completed a Master s thesis entitled Mormonism in a Mäori Village, as well as two books, The World of the Maori (1966) and The Maori People of the Nineteen Sixties (1968). After completing his Ph.D. in anthropology, he taught in Vancouver and Toronto, and later at Université Laval, Québec, retiring in 1993. In retirement, he again turned to Mäori studies. His recent published books are Le syndrome des Plaines d Abraham (1995), Parle, et je t écouterai: Récits et traditions des Orokaïva de Papouasie- Nouvelle-Guinée (1996), and Figured Worlds: Ontological Obstacles to Intercultural Relations (2004). 5
Notes & News Errata Extended, multi-party consultations over the title of the September 2003 Special Issue resulted in the issue ending up with two titles: one on the cover and another on the title page. The correct title is the one on the title page: Postcolonial Dilemmas: Reappraising Justice and Identity in New Zealand and Australia. A minor typo of scholarly importance in the December 2003 requires correction. Angela Terrill writes: The speculatively reconstructed form cited as *ngorus on p.378 should be *gorus. An Appreciation of Robert Langdon. Robert Adrian Langdon (1924-2003) was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1924. After naval service in the Second World War he spent four years in South America and Spain before becoming a journalist on the Adelaide Advertiser for ten years. During that time he published his fine history of Tahiti, Island of Love. Then, in 1962, he satisfied a long-cherished ambition by joining Pacific Islands Monthly. He travelled extensively in the Islands and wrote many illuminating historical articles, all the while also exploring libraries and archives. Consequently, by 1968 he was so well established as a Pacific specialist that he was appointed as first executive officer of the newly founded Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. The Bureau was set up within the Australian National University for the purpose of locating and copying documents relating to the history of the Pacific and then disseminating those materials on microfilm. During his busy 17-year tenure Langdon produced over 2100 rolls of 35mm microfilm of Pacific manuscripts and rare publications, as well as related indexes, catalogues and newsletters. This was a foundational contribution to scholarship, and a triumph of cultural preservation. More controversial were the fruits of his independent research: his studies of European castaways in the Pacific before Captain Cook, which appeared in two books, The Lost Caravel (1975) and The Lost Caravel Revisited (1988). Bob Langdon died at his home in Canberra on 26 September 2003, but he had built his own monument. His work will endure in the footnotes of scholars. - Contributed by Hugh Laracy, Department of History, The University of Auckland.