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hup-18-e-15-978-952-369-046-20301Ubiquity Press15978-952-369-046-20610.33134/HUP-1201internal-reference18BCB20201Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://hup.fi02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://hup.fi/books/e/10.33134/HUP-121B01Jukka SiikalaJukkaSiikalaUniversity of HelsinkiJukka Siikala is Professor Emeritus of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. Specializing on the Pacific since the mid-1970s, Siikala has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Cook Islands first in 1983–1984, later in the 1980s and 1990s as well as fieldwork with Cook Island migrants in New Zealand. Central themes in Siikala's research are the focus on culture and textuality, for example recitation and recording of genealogies, and interactions between indigenous hierarchies, state institutions and the global system. He has edited a number of volumes, such as Departures: How Societies Distribute their People (2001) and published a multitude of articles internationally and in Finnish. He is the author of two monographs of the Cook Islands, Akatokamanāva: Myth, History and Society in the Southern Cook Islands (1991) and Return to Culture: Oral Tradition and Society in the Southern Cook Islands (2005) together with Anna-Leena Siikala.01eng30223User DefinedAnthropology23User DefinedSocial and cultural anthropology23User DefinedEthnology23User DefinedHistory12art12canoes12gender roles12exchange12folk music12kinship12leadership12performance12petroglyphs12seafaring12Oceania12Cook Islands12Easter Island12Hawaiʻi12Indonesia12Papua New Guinea12Tonga10SOC00201010SOC00300010SOC01100093JHMC93NK93JBGB01010302Culture and History in the Pacific is a collection of essays originally published in 1990. The texts explore from different perspectives the question of culture as a repository of historical information. They also address broader questions of anthropological writing at the time, such as the relationship between anthropologists’ representations and local conceptions. This republication aims to make the book accessible to a wider audience, and in the region it discusses, Oceania. A new introductory essay has been included to contextualize the volume in relation to its historical setting, the end of the Cold War era, and to the present study of the Pacific and indigenous scholarship. The authors of Culture and History in the Pacific include prominent anthropologists of the Pacific, some of whom – Roger Keesing and Marilyn Strathern, to name but two – have also been influential in the anthropology of the late 20th and early 21st century in general.0202Culture and History in the Pacific is a collection of essays by eminent anthropologists originally published in 1990. The authors represent several academic traditions and different areal discussions during the Cold War era. The texts explore from different perspectives the question of culture as a repository of historical information. They also address broader questions of anthropological writing at the time. This republication aims to make the book accessible to a wider audience, and in the region it discusses, Oceania. A new introductory essay has been included to contextualize the volume in relation to its historical setting and to the present study of the Pacific and indigenous scholarship.04Preface to the Second Edition Crossing Borders: Changing Contexts of This Book Introduction History and the representation of Polynesian societies Artefacts of history: Events and the interpretation of images Diarchy and history in Hawaiʻi and Tonga Under the Toa tree: The genealogy of the Tongan Chiefs Chiefs, gender and hierarchy in Ngāpūtoru Class and social differentiation in Oceania New lessons from old shells: Changing perspectives on the Kula Gift exchange and the construction of identity ‘Canoe traffic’ of the Torres Strait and Fly Estuary Cultural history of the Pacific and the bark cloth making in Central Sulawesi The material culture of music performance on Manihiki The ‘golden section’ on Kitawa Island Decipherment of the Easter Island script46http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/47Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)040901https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/82a2e803-73b9-4d52-80d0-f26be995eaca.pngHelsinki University Press01Helsinki University Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://hup.fi02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://hup.fi/books/e/10.33134/HUP-12Helsinki0420210929025.83in030.68in080.87964442538lb018.27in1315978-952-369-047-9hup-18-e-15-978-952-369-047-90301Ubiquity Press15978-952-369-047-90610.33134/HUP-1201internal-reference18DGE20100201Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://hup.fi02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://hup.fi/books/e/10.33134/HUP-121B01Jukka SiikalaJukkaSiikalaUniversity of HelsinkiJukka Siikala is Professor Emeritus of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. Specializing on the Pacific since the mid-1970s, Siikala has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Cook Islands first in 1983–1984, later in the 1980s and 1990s as well as fieldwork with Cook Island migrants in New Zealand. Central themes in Siikala's research are the focus on culture and textuality, for example recitation and recording of genealogies, and interactions between indigenous hierarchies, state institutions and the global system. He has edited a number of volumes, such as Departures: How Societies Distribute their People (2001) and published a multitude of articles internationally and in Finnish. He is the author of two monographs of the Cook Islands, Akatokamanāva: Myth, History and Society in the Southern Cook Islands (1991) and Return to Culture: Oral Tradition and Society in the Southern Cook Islands (2005) together with Anna-Leena Siikala.01eng30223User DefinedAnthropology23User DefinedSocial and cultural anthropology23User DefinedEthnology23User DefinedHistory12art12canoes12gender roles12exchange12folk music12kinship12leadership12performance12petroglyphs12seafaring12Oceania12Cook Islands12Easter Island12Hawaiʻi12Indonesia12Papua New Guinea12Tonga10SOC00201010SOC00300010SOC01100093JHMC93NK93JBGB01010302Culture and History in the Pacific is a collection of essays originally published in 1990. The texts explore from different perspectives the question of culture as a repository of historical information. They also address broader questions of anthropological writing at the time, such as the relationship between anthropologists’ representations and local conceptions. This republication aims to make the book accessible to a wider audience, and in the region it discusses, Oceania. A new introductory essay has been included to contextualize the volume in relation to its historical setting, the end of the Cold War era, and to the present study of the Pacific and indigenous scholarship. The authors of Culture and History in the Pacific include prominent anthropologists of the Pacific, some of whom – Roger Keesing and Marilyn Strathern, to name but two – have also been influential in the anthropology of the late 20th and early 21st century in general.0202Culture and History in the Pacific is a collection of essays by eminent anthropologists originally published in 1990. The authors represent several academic traditions and different areal discussions during the Cold War era. The texts explore from different perspectives the question of culture as a repository of historical information. They also address broader questions of anthropological writing at the time. This republication aims to make the book accessible to a wider audience, and in the region it discusses, Oceania. A new introductory essay has been included to contextualize the volume in relation to its historical setting and to the present study of the Pacific and indigenous scholarship.04Preface to the Second Edition Crossing Borders: Changing Contexts of This Book Introduction History and the representation of Polynesian societies Artefacts of history: Events and the interpretation of images Diarchy and history in Hawaiʻi and Tonga Under the Toa tree: The genealogy of the Tongan Chiefs Chiefs, gender and hierarchy in Ngāpūtoru Class and social differentiation in Oceania New lessons from old shells: Changing perspectives on the Kula Gift exchange and the construction of identity ‘Canoe traffic’ of the Torres Strait and Fly Estuary Cultural history of the Pacific and the bark cloth making in Central Sulawesi The material culture of music performance on Manihiki The ‘golden section’ on Kitawa Island Decipherment of the Easter Island script46http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/47Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)040901https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-hup/files/media/cover_images/82a2e803-73b9-4d52-80d0-f26be995eaca.pngHelsinki University Press01Helsinki University Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://hup.fi02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://hup.fi/books/e/10.33134/HUP-12Helsinki04202109290615978-952-369-046-2