Art and Performance in Oceania

The Fifth International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association, titled "Art, Performance, and Society", called for papers in sessions dealing with "Production and Performance", "Social and Cultural Context", "The Record and the Remainder", and "The Mission of Museums". In all, some sixty papers were presented, twenty-four of which have been included in this book.

The first two topics elicited several papers that explored the creative process, including the description and analysis of performance, and the taxonomy of objects used, the transmission of cultural knowledge, and the identity and work of individual artists. The second two topics provided the opportunity for papers on some significant early museum collectors and collections, various methods of documenting cultural material (such as photography), how cultural material has been and can be exhibited, and the role of museums and cultural centers in Pacific Island countries.

Preface

vii

Christopher Anderson

Introduction

1

(3)

Barry Craig

PART 1 Art as performance in Micronesia and Polynesia

4

(60)

Bernie Kernot

The relationships between the evaluations of dance performance and the social system in Yap, Micronesia

7

(8)

Junko Konishi

Clowning as political commentary: Polynesia-then and now

15

(14)

Vilsoni Hereniko

Festivals, identity and performance: Tahiti and the 6th Pacific Arts Festival

29

(8)

Karen Stevensen

Imaging the Nation: The New Zealand International Exhibition 1906-07 and the Model Maori

37

(13)

Pa Bernie Kernot

Art education in Samoa: Acculturated identity

50

(8)

Regina Meredith

Fat is beautiful: The body as art form in the Pacific

58

(6)

Nancy J. Pollock

PART 2 Bringing people back into the collections: Indigenous Australians and the presentation of culture

64

(40)

Christopher Anderson

Artists as performers: The Flinders University Aboriginal Artists-in-Residence program re-reviewed

66

(8)

J. V. S. Megaw

M. Ruth Megaw

Speaking as the `Other'

74

(4)

Brenda L. Croft

Committed photography: Recording history

78

(6)

Juno Gemes

Racism and the state: Critical reflections on the organisation of heritage institutions in South Australia

84

(5)

Deane Fergie

Ethnographic museums and indigenous peoples: A perspective from Western Australia

89

(5)

John E. Stanton

Old galleries, new people

94

(10)

Christopher Anderson

PART 3 From performance to museum in Melanesia

104

(150)

Barry Craig

A festival to honour the dead and revitalise society: Masks and prestige in a Gamei community (Lower Ramu, Papua New Guinea)

107

(33)

Dirk Smidt

Soroi Marepo Eoe

Sulka masked ceremonies and exchange

140

(5)

Chris Issac

Barry Craig

The significance of the tantanua dance within the Verem malagan

145

(9)

Noah J. Lurang

Taxonomic structure and typology in the malagan ritual art tradition of Tabar, New Ireland

154

(19)

Michael Gunn

The acoustic properties of the Fijian `slit-gongs'

173

(6)

Rod Ewins

The woodcarvings of Mutuaga, a 19th-century artist of the Massim district of Papua New Guinea

179

(32)

Harry Beran

Women and the fibre arts of Papua New Guinea

211

(7)

Wendi Choulai

Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris

Tree-houses, representation and photography on the Papuan coast, 1880 to 1930

218

(13)

Max Quanchi

`Our ethnographical troops in the field': Swedes and museum collecting in Melanesia circa 1900

231

(15)

Helena Regius

Art of Astrolabe Bay: History of research, results and future research tasks

246

(8)

Gabor Vargyas

PART 4 Pan-Pacific developments

254

(35)

Barry Craig

Out of the doldrums: Museums and cultural centres in Pacific Islands countries in the 1990s

256

(10)

Susan Cochrane

Of old models and new in Pacific art: Real or spurious?

266

(23)

Philip J. C. Dark

Contributors

289

(7)

References

296

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