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Multicultural Japan
  • Palaeolithic to Postmodern
  • Edited by Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson, Gavan McCormack, Tessa Morris-Suzuki
  • Published online:
    05 November 2011
    Print publication:
    13 September 1996
  • This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous. Unique for its historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, Multicultural Japan ranges from prehistory to the present, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan. A timely and provocative discussion of identity politics regarding the question of 'Japaneseness', the book traces the origins of the Japanese, examining Japan's indigenous people and the politics of archaeology, using the latter to link Japan's ancient history with contemporary debates on identity. Also examined are Japan's historical connections with Europe and East and Southeast Asia, ideology, family, culture and past and present.

Public Health in Papua New Guinea
  • Medical Possibility and Social Constraint, 1884–1984
  • Donald Denoon
  • With Kathleen Dugan, Leslie Marshall
  • Published online:
    11 February 2010
    Print publication:
    18 May 1989
  • This book concerns the development of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care during the initial colonisation and later colonial rule of Papua New Guinea. It discusses the relationship between public health and the medical profession and colonial bureaucracy, and also analyses the profession's social and technical ideas which determined the kinds of health policies and programmes attempted. The first part describes the era of tropical medicine which predominated at the turn of the century and survived until the 1950s. The second part investigates the transformation of tropical medicine by the introduction of new drugs and the curative campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s, and thereafter discusses the emergence of a new medical strategy known as 'primary health care'. This original, comparative study will be of value not only to anthropologists and historians of tropical medicine but also to historians of colonialism and its effects on public health care.

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders
  • Donald Denoon, Malama Meleisea
  • With Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Karen Nero
  • Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    28 August 1997
  • This history presents an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the experiences of Pacific islanders from their first settlement of the islands to the present day. It addresses the question of insularity and explores islanders' experiences thematically, covering such topics as early settlement, contact with Europeans, colonialism, politics, commerce, nuclear testing, tradition, ideology, and the role of women. It incorporates material on the Maori, the Irianese in western New Guinea, the settled immigrant communities in Fiji, New Caledonia and the Hawaiian monarchy and follows migrants to New Zealand, Australia and North America.

  • 2 - Human Settlement

  • from Part One - The Pacific To 1941
  • Donald Denoon, Australian National University, Canberra, Malama Meleisea
  • With Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Karen Nero
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    28 August 1997, pp 37-79

  • Summary

    This chapter presents several samples, including oral histories in poetry, archaeology in theprose of the natural sciences, linguistics in the form of genealogies, and the more conventional language of academic history. The Kumulipo chant and the 'Story of Latmikaik' are not narrowly historical, but creation stories from Polynesian Hawai'i and Micronesian Palau. Meanwhile Archaeology was developing formidable skills in analysing physical remains of past societies, while linguists organised languages into families with genealogies describing their evolution from common ancestor languages. One of the most useful historical disciplines which developed during the past hundred years is Linguistics. The complementary distribution of Austronesian languages and the Island South-East Asian Neolithic and Lapita cultural complexes suggests dates for the spread of both. Castaways from South-East Asia, from South America, and from Portuguese and Spanish ships of the sixteenth century appear to have been significant actors in the last 2000 years of Pacific Island prehistory.

  • 7 - New Economic Orders: Land, Labour and Dependency

  • from Part One - The Pacific To 1941
  • Donald Denoon, Australian National University, Canberra, Malama Meleisea
  • With Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Karen Nero
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    28 August 1997, pp 218-252

  • Summary

    During most of the nineteenth century, the British Navy was the main over-arching authority in the Pacific, exercising 'informal empire' at a time when Britain was committed to free trade and reluctant to incur the costs of colonial administration. The greatest sources of instability were British settlers in Australia and New Zealand, and French settlers (caldoches) in New Caledonia. The earliest traders needed the support of local power-holders, for ventures which made slight demands on land and labour. At the perimeter of French, British and Australian strategic and commercial interests, the protectorates were declared without enthusiasm or resources. The Young Maori Party campaigns were at a peak when Parliament passed a number of acts granting limited self-government to Maori. CSR's Queens-land operations relied on up-to-date technology, a bounty, and white labour. Many general features of plantation life are manifest in Fiji. Depending on circumstances, some populations recovered quickly even from dreadful epidemics.

  • 3 - Pacific Edens? Myths and Realities of Primitive Affluence

  • from Part One - The Pacific To 1941
  • Donald Denoon, Australian National University, Canberra, Malama Meleisea
  • With Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Karen Nero
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    28 August 1997, pp 80-118

  • Summary

    The pioneers who colonised the western Pacific found immense forests and rivers fed by copious rain. The distinction between 'hunting and gathering' and 'agriculture' is a matter of emphasis. The pioneers developed systematic agriculture first in coastal New Guinea, then in the Highlands and later on smaller islands where natural resources would not sustain hunters and gatherers. Technical ingenuity, religious awe and social relations were so intertwined that it is misleading to isolate the 'economic' meaning of multidimensional experience. Land tenure arrangements are often described as 'traditional' or 'customary', but tenure practices on 'customary' land often differ greatly from practices described by early observers, land commissions, or in recorded oral history. Complementing most people's attachment to particular pieces of land was an equally profound commitment to social relations which rested on (and reinforced) trade and exchange. Underpinning all other relations were a host of relationships between women and men, in production, consumption and exchanges.

  • 5 - Land, Labour and Independent Development

  • from Part One - The Pacific To 1941
  • Donald Denoon, Australian National University, Canberra, Malama Meleisea
  • With Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Karen Nero
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    28 August 1997, pp 152-184

  • Summary

    Throughout the nineteenth century, ambitious Pacific Islanders saw a variety of chances to transform their lives and their production and exchange. Several formed alliances with foreign adventurers, to extract or exploit resources. As the balance of political power tilted against the chiefs, however, it became increasingly difficult to retain land, labour, and autonomy. Radical scholars argue that development can be destructive, especially in societies remote from metropolitan centres and lacking political leverage. The frequency of shipwrecks even in the seventeenth century implies that many earlier vessels, seeking sandalwood or beche-de-mer, struck the western Carolines. Across the temperate South, British settlers flowed with increasing strength and turbulence. In the early nineteenth century the New Zealand Maori had earned a reputation as brutal yet intelligent natives. Islanders often had to make sacrifices to retain autonomy. The Vaitupu Company in Tuvalu (Ellice Islands) made heroic attempts at self-reliant development.

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