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Figuring the Pacific : Aotearoa & Pacific cultural studies / edited by Howard McNaughton and John Newton. - 136 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"Selection of papers ... from the annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia held in Christchurch, New Zealand, in December 2003"--P. 7.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-134).

Introduction : Facing the past / John Newton -- The English moko : Exploring a spiral / Robert Sullivan -- Whipped into shape : Convict bodies and colonial narratives / Frances Kelly -- Postcolonial virtualities : The other's giant body / Allen Meek -- The New Zealand wars : Opening a space for remembrance / Lisa Perrott -- Building the Maori world : Preconceptions and misconceptions in contact between Europeans and Maori / Adrian Bennett -- Embodying desire, embodying disease : Sacks and the 'scientific' representation of 'Pacific malaise' / Daniel Bedggood -- Staging Polynesia in the 1906 Christchurch International Exhibition / Howard McNaughton -- Te Papa as a cultural signal / Mike Linzey -- Inside job / Ian Wedde.

ISBN: 1877257389 9781877257384

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Postcolonialism--New Zealand
Biculturalism--New Zealand
Māori (New Zealand people)

LC Class. No.: DU418 / .F54 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 305.800993