IDH 2004: Honors Seminar IV

South Pacific Islands: Cultures and Contact Zones

Prof. Bruce Harvey

 

Links for Readings & Template for Developing Class Website

 

(The sections below will be filled-in, modified,

and transferred to the public website as the semester

progresses.  Task assignments get submitted to Melissa

and ??? for editing, and then come to me.  I then

send them to Andy to translate into the webpage

formatting.  ??? then looks at the real webpage and

provides feedback for revision (stylistically, content-wise,

or webpage design-wise) to me, Andy, and Melissa.

All tasks below do not need to be assigned. Some sections

can just be filled in with links going elsewhere.)

 

 

TEXTS & FILMS         TASKS (+=big *=writing)     INITIAL WEBSITES TO INSPECT       

 

ORIGINS: GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, & MIGRATION PATTERNS OF POLYNESIA

 

Germs:handout               find relevant maps: Jo, St         Hawaii

Hawaii legend:handout       +evolution of flora/fauna          Pac. Islands Internet Resources

                                                               Center for Pac. Islands Studies

                                                               Polynesian Voyaging Society

                                                               History of Polynesia

 

CONTACT ZONES & MOTIFS: DISCOVERY, THEMES OF CANNIBALISM & SENSUAL PARADISE, BEACHCOMBERS, MISSIONARIES, IMPERIALISM, HAWAII STATEHOOD, MAORI HISTORY, TOURISM

 

Cook's Voyages:handout      +construct timeline:               James Cook link page

Cooklegend:handout          navigation/ships:                  The Hunterian Museum:Cap.Cook Voyages.

Mutiny film                 +*Captain Cook bio.:               Cap Cook-"The . . . Greatest Explorer"

Mr Bligh's Bad              history of Bligh mutiny            Views of Hawaii from Cap Cook's Voyages

Typee                       & links to/review of "Mutiny"      Engravings from the Voyages of Cook

                            films:                             Discovery

                            +*history of missionaries &        Captain james cook voyages exhibit

                            imperialism:Kar                    Mutiny on the HMS Bounty

                            famous beachcombers

                            +*legends of cannibals/paradise          

                            +*Hawaii statehood:Alex

                            Maori history

                            tourism: industry, theory of       The Isles of Polynesia

                            Typee links                        Hawaiian Hoax

 

                                                              

 

 

WESTERN CULTURE THEORY: ROMANTIC PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY

 

Discourse on Ineq           summary of Boug/                   Diderot: Sup Bougainville

Mr Bligh's Bad              *Diderot/Rousseau:Jo

                            *"noble savage" motif:

                           

INSIDE HAWAIIAN & MAORIAN CULTURE: FOLKTALES, MATERIAL CULTURE, & CONTEMPORARY FICTION

 

Song of Exile               +*Haw. myth/religion:              Tattoos.Com Ezine

Once Were Warriors          +*Maori mythology:Kriss            Poly Gallery & Anthro

Hawaii myth:handout         +*Areoi soc + hula dancing:Hel     Poly Lang and Literature Group

Hawaiian film               music                              PPE - Kiwi culture

Maori film                  +*carvings/craft:Dan               Haw Legends:… of Hula

Maori myth:handout          reviews of Duff                    MYTHING LINKS: Maori

Once Were W film            reviews of Davenport               Maori legends

                            Eastern Island monuments           Myths and Legends - frames

                                                               Regional Folklore and Mythology

                                                               Postcolonial & Postimperial Lit

                                                               Wrestling … Patterns … Warriors

                                                               Reflections on Once Were Warriors

                                                               Alan Duff's Once Were Warriors

                                                               The Bone People: Biblio Infor

                                                               H.. Hulme's The Windeater

                                                               Easter Island Home Page

                                                               Myths & Mysteries > Easter Island

 

JUST LOOKING: ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES OF NATIVE CULTURE

                                                 

Coming of Age:handout       background on Margaret Mead

Mr Bligh Bad language      links to anthropological

Possessions:handout         +*summary of main schools & ideas

 

 

WESTERN REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC: FROM GAUGHIN'S TAHITIAN PAINTINGS TO "MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY" & ELVIS'S "BLUE HAWAII"

 

Gaughin's diary:handout     +*gather G. & other paintings:St   hawaiian movies

Blue Hawaii film            & describe

South Pacific film          links to R.L.Stevenson:

Mr Bligh's Bad              +*summary of Elvis movies, Pacific

Cultural critique handout   musical and Bounty films & links: