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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.

  • 12 - The Ideological World Remade

  • from Part Two - The Pacific Since 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 397-438

  • Summary

    Central to many political and constitutional disputes in the Pacific Islands is the fact that cultural and national identities, and categories such as indigenous, are ambiguous and contested. This chapter addresses the transformation of cultural systems and ideologies from the colonial era through decolonisation, by focusing on political ideas, cultural and local identities, and changing forms of group action. It also addresses the implications of decolonisation and economic transformation for women. Scholars suggest various causes for increasing political and other violence, such as foreign education, the frustration of young people, power disparities between ethnic groups, conflicts between region and nation over resources, and a growing gap between rich and poor. During the colonial period, Melanesian tradition became conspicuous and contentious in two arenas, one of them being that debate about local beliefs and practices escalated in association with cargo cults, that well-known form of Melanesian millenarianism. In gender relations, a dynamic conjunction linked indigenous precedents and foreign ideas and institutions.