The Arts and Politics
Special Issue of Pacific Studies 15(4) 1992
Edited by Karen Nero
Introduction: Challenging Communication in the Contemporary Pacific
Karen L. Nero
Dancing Defiance: The Politics of Pohnpeian Dance Performances
Glenn Petersen
Celebrations of Government: Dance Performance and Legitimacy in the Federated States of Micronesia
Eve C. Pinsker
Pulapese Dance: Asserting Identity and Tradition in Modern Contexts
Juliana Flinn
It's the Same Old Song but with a Different Meaning: Community and Ethnicity in Sikaiana Expressive Culture
William W. Donner
Symbols of Power and the Politics of Impotence: The Molmahao Rebellion on Rotuma
Alan Howard
Politicization of la Culture Ma'ohi: The Creation of a Tahitian Cultural Identity
Karen Stevenson
Women, Art, and the Crafting of Ethnicity in Contemporary French Polynesia
Anna Laura Jones
Heteroglossia in Samoan Oratory
Alessandro Duranti
The Monster (A Fantasy). A One-Act Play, with an Interview with the Playwright
Vilsoni Hereniko
Comic Theater in Samoa as Indigenous Media
Carolina Sinavaiana
The Theater of Politics: Contrasting Types of Performance in Melanesia
Dorothy K. Billings
The Breadfruit Tree Story: Mythological Transformations in Palauan Politics
Karen L. Nero
"Planem Family Blong Iu": Poster Art in the Solomon Islands
Judith Fitzpatrick
Maori Literature: Protest and Affirmation
Karen P. Sinclair
Epilogue: States of the Arts
Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Karen L. Nero
Dancing Defiance: The Politics of Pohnpeian Dance Performances
Glenn Petersen
Celebrations of Government: Dance Performance and Legitimacy in the Federated States of Micronesia
Eve C. Pinsker
Pulapese Dance: Asserting Identity and Tradition in Modern Contexts
Juliana Flinn
It's the Same Old Song but with a Different Meaning: Community and Ethnicity in Sikaiana Expressive Culture
William W. Donner
Symbols of Power and the Politics of Impotence: The Molmahao Rebellion on Rotuma
Alan Howard
Politicization of la Culture Ma'ohi: The Creation of a Tahitian Cultural Identity
Karen Stevenson
Women, Art, and the Crafting of Ethnicity in Contemporary French Polynesia
Anna Laura Jones
Heteroglossia in Samoan Oratory
Alessandro Duranti
The Monster (A Fantasy). A One-Act Play, with an Interview with the Playwright
Vilsoni Hereniko
Comic Theater in Samoa as Indigenous Media
Carolina Sinavaiana
The Theater of Politics: Contrasting Types of Performance in Melanesia
Dorothy K. Billings
The Breadfruit Tree Story: Mythological Transformations in Palauan Politics
Karen L. Nero
"Planem Family Blong Iu": Poster Art in the Solomon Islands
Judith Fitzpatrick
Maori Literature: Protest and Affirmation
Karen P. Sinclair
Epilogue: States of the Arts
Adrienne L. Kaeppler