The Journal of the Polynesian Society VOLUME 113 No.3 SEPTEMBER 2004 THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND
THE JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY Volume 113 SEPTEMBER 2004 Number 3 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 SEPTEMBER 2004 Number 3 CONTENTS Notes and News... 221 Articles JULIE PARK AND CAROLYN MORRIS Reproducing Samoans in Auckland In Different Times : Can Habitus Help?... 227 ANYA HINKLE The Distribution of a Male Sterile Form of Ti (Cordyline fruticosa) in Polynesia: A Case of Human Selection?... 263 Shorter Communications CHRIS JACOMB, RICHARD WALTER, SHERIDAN EASDALE, DILYS JOHNS, DAVID O CONNELL, DAN WITTER AND ALISON WITTER A 15th Century Mäori Textile Fragment from Kaitorete Spit, Canterbury, and the Evolution of Mäori Weaving... 291 Reviews Dawson, Richard: The Treaty of Waitangi and the Control of Language. RAWIRI TAONUI... 297 Feinberg, Richard: Anuta: Polynesian Lifeways for the Twenty-First Century. ANNE CHAMBERS... 299 Finney, Ben: Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors: Reviving Polynesian Voyaging. GEOFFREY IRWIN... 302
Modell, Judith S. (ed.): Constructing Moral Communities: Pacific Islander Strategies for Settling in New Places. YVONNE UNDERHILL-SEM... 304 Smith, Michael French: Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea. PHILLIP GUDDEMI... 305 Wallace, Lee: Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities. VANESSA SMITH... 307 Publications Received... 311 Minutes of 113th Annual General Meeting of the Polynesian Society... 313 Publications of The Polynesian Society... 315 220
NOTES AND NEWS Contributors to This Issue Sheridan Easdale is an archaeologist with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. She has a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Auckland. Before taking up her position with the Historic Places Trust she was curator at the Antarctic Heritage Trust, with responsibility for the conservation and care of the Heroic Era sites and buildings in the Ross Dependency. Anya Hinkle is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Her dissertation research is focused on the genetic structuring of populations of ti plants (Cordyline fruticosa) across the Pacific and their origin and dispersal within Polynesia. Her main research interests are in using genetic methods to study biogeography and archaeoethnobotany. Chris Jacomb is an archaeologist with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust but has also spent several years working as a museum curator. He graduated from the University of Otago with an M.A. in Anthropology in 1995. His research interests include both historic and prehistoric archaeology with a focus on material culture studies and regional variation. Dilys Johns is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland. She studied archaeology at the University of Auckland and conservation at the International Center for the Study of the Preservation of Cultural Property in Rome and the Canadian Conservation Institute. Her research interests include the conservation of wetland archaeological sites, waterlogged artefact conservation, and wetland archaeology. Carolyn Morris is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Canterbury. Her recent research with high country farm women employed Bourdieu s concepts to understand striking continuity in the face of change. Her current research interests include life history, rurality, food and kinship. David O Connell is a natural resources manager with Te Runanga o Ngäi Tahu. He has had a long involvement with archaeological heritage management with Te Runanga o Taumutu and co-ordinated the Runanga s input into the work at the Kaitorete Spit site where the textile fragments were found. Julie Park is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland. She was a member of the research team for the Samoan Roles and Responsibilities in Reproduction study and one of the 221
222 Notes & News initiators of the project. Her research interests include New Zealand society, health, gender and community. Richard Walter is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Otago. He graduated from the University of Auckland with a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1989 and since then has worked extensively in Pacific archaeology. His regional interests are East Polynesia (including New Zealand) and Melanesia and he currently has field projects in the Western Solomons, Mangaia in the Cook Islands and New Zealand. His research interests include material culture analysis, landscape archaeology and prehistoric exchange. Dan Witter is an archaeologist based at Taumutu, near the Kaitorete Spit. He and his wife Alison undertake consultant projects in both Australia and New Zealand as Witter Archaeology. He holds a B.A. in Zoology from the University of Wyoming, an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico and a Ph.D. in Prehistory from the Australian National University. He has had a major research interest in western New South Wales for the past 30 years, and over the last five years has been developing a research focus on the Kaitorete Spit. His current research interests include stone technology, landscape archaeology and the archaeology of ceremonial sites. Launch of new edition of Nga Möteatea, Part I The launch of the first volume of the new edition of Ngä Möteatea was held on Wednesday 7 July 2004, at 5.00 p.m. at Waipapa Marae, University of Auckland. It began with a pöwhiri in in the Whare Nui to which some 40 manuhiri were called. The hariru followed their entry. The kaikörero for the tangata whenua were Taku Wikiriwhi, Hone Sadler and Sir Hugh Kawharu. The first two kaikörero welcomed the manuhiri, who included representatives of the Ngata and Jones whänau, references being made to Ngäti Porou and Tainui. These speakers were followed by Whairiri Ngata, who spoke on behalf of the manuhiri. He talked of the importance of the huge collection of waiata that his illustrious ancestor, Apirana Ngata, had made from all parts of Aotearoa, for both the present and future generations. He explained that the notes had been corrected by Ngata and Pei Te Hurinui from the time of the earliest publication in 1928 and that references had been corrected in the new edition. Sir Hugh concluded with further reference to the importance of Ngä Möteatea. The manuhiri and tangata whenua then moved to the Whare Kai. Here Judith Huntsman, Honorary Editor of the Polynesian Society, outlined the
Notes & News 223 history of the Polynesian Society s involvement with the publication of the four parts of Ngä Möteatea, Ngata s close relationship with the Society, and the Society s need to obtain funding to publish a new edition. This need was met by Creative New Zealand and enabled the commissioning Editor, Professor Margaret Mutu and the editors, Jenifer Curnow and Jane McRae to be appointed and to enlist excellent post-graduate students, Yvonne Sutherland, Tane Mokena and Ian Hunter to assist them. She thanked all these and gave special thanks to Creative New Zealand, to Dr Mervyn McLean, who prepared the recordings for the CDs that accompany the book, to the Lilburn Trust, who contributed to the cost of preparing the master disks, to Dr Richard Moyle of the Archive of Maori and Pacific Music for access to the recordings, to Rangimarie Rawiri for her administration of the grant and to Elizabeth Caffin and her staff at Auckland University Press for the production of a handsome book. Among the manuhiri were representatives of Creative New Zealand: including Elizabeth Ellis, Chair Te Waka Toi; Murray Shaw, recently Chair of the Arts Board of Creative New Zealand; members of the Ngata and Jones whänau: Whairiri Ngata and Mrs Ngata, Komene Jones and Mrs Jones; and members of The University of Auckland and Waikato University. A splendid hakari followed. ASAA/NZ Conference 2004 The Conference will be held at the University of Auckland 3-4 December 2004. The Conference theme is Translations, Treaties and Testimonies: The Cultural Politics of Interpretation. Full information about the Conference may be found at www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/ant/asaaconference/index.htm Sixth Conference of the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) The Conference will be held from 6-8 July 2005 at the Center of Research and Documentation on Oceania (CREDO), University of Provence, Marseilles (France). The thematic title is Pacific Challenges:Questioning concepts, rethinking conflicts. The following is an abridged explanation of the Conference sessions. The different peoples of the Pacific confront essential challenges in terms of their social fabric, economic sustenance and geopolitical balance... Some of the Pacific challenges examined in this conference are concerned with the socio-political impact of colonial history, such as the colonial settlement in the current process of conflict and procedures for reconciliation (sessions 1, 2 and 12). Fast modification or outright loss of tradition and the rapid movement towards modernity will be discussed via subjects such as dynamics
224 Notes & News of religiosity, spirituality of objects, and issues of intellectual property in Museums and elsewhere (sessions 3, 9 and 8). Facing globalisation and accepting certain tools and lifestyles of modernity without losing values and principles of local belonging, promoting a multifaceted identity challenges our scientific disciplines. The boundaries, ethics and the interdisciplinary constitution of knowledge in the conception of space and navigation (session 4), endangered languages (session 10), reconceptualisation of cultural practices, sociality, strategies of communication and the use of new technologies (sessions 10, 11, 6 and 7) engage researchers in social sciences as well as museology, cognitive anthropology or computer sciences. Research in relation to people, societies, culture heritage and change necessitates more than ever a sophisticated approach to rethink political conflict beyond ethnicity (session 5) and to redefine our research tools not only for understanding this world and its past but also to try to get insights into the future of a strategic region intertwined in the network of the global world. Keynote speakers will be Brij Lal (Professor of History, Head of the Center for the Contemporary Pacific, Australian National University), Marcia Langton (Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies, University of Melbourne) and Jacob Simet (Executive Director, National Cultural Commission of Papua New Guinea). The deadline for paper submissions is 15 January 2005. For further information concerning the conference (the procedure to register and present a paper, the session list with sub-themes, the registration fees, hotel registration), please consult Conference website at www.pacific-credo.net/esfo. Errata There are three errors in Melinda Allen s article (June 2004 issue) for which the editor and author apologise. Two are with dates: nine lines from the bottom of page 183, the date should be post-a.d.1500 (not post-a.d.500); and the date for the Marquesan Classic period on page 189 should be 1790 (not 1970). The other is the regrettable omission of Table 6, referred to on p.186. The Table that should have appeared there is reproduced on the adjacent page.
Notes & News 225 Table 6: Comparison of the culture historical sequences of Suggs (1961), Sinoto (1966) and the present analysis, illustrating how it has been compressed since first inception.