The last days of the Melanesian labour trade in Western Samoa

Meleiseā, Malama

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“…7 Malama Meleisea used the term tama uli to refer to the descendants of Melanesians who were taken to work in the plantations in Sāmoa in the late 1800s and early 1900s (Meleisea 1980). This is seen as a more respectful way to refer to black people.…”

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Re-Presenting Melanesia: Ignoble Savages and Melanesian Alter-Natives

Kabutaulaka¹

2015

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In this essay, I examine the dominant representations of Melanesia as a place and Melanesians as peoples and how these have influenced understandings of and responses to contemporary developments in this subregion. I begin with an overview of the discourses that influenced the mapping of Oceania and the negative representations of Melanesians. These have, in turn, framed and influenced discourses about and relationships with Melanesia and Melanesians, including Melanesian perceptions of themselves and their relationships with others. Against this background, my focus is on how Melanesians have recently appropriated the term “Melanesia” and are using it in positive, empowering, and progressive ways to mobilize, redefine, and re-present themselves. In the process, they have constructed a pan-Melanesian identity that embraces and celebrates the subregion’s ethno-linguistic and cultural diversities. This is manifested through the concepts of “the Melanesian Way” and “wantokism,” intergovernmental organizations such as the Melanesian Spearhead Group, the arts, and popular culture. Through all of these, Melanesians are “altering” the native and “re-presenting” what might be called the “ignoble savage.” This process and discourse constitute “Melanesianism.”

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Re-Presenting Melanesia: Ignoble Savages and Melanesian Alter-Natives

Kabutaulaka¹

2015

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“…127 PMB 1381, Woodford Papers, 8/17, Reel 4, Bundle 23, 'BSIP Statistics to 31 Mar 1909 128 Munro 1990, liv, xlvii;Meleisea 1980;Shineberg 1999, 27, 28, 60, 64, 80, 106, 232;Siegel 1985;Corris 1973b;Halapua 2001, 47. Although eligible to stay in Australia, Tolimcane, who by the early 1900s had a small cane farm near Bundaberg where he ran a few head of stock and employed several of his countrymen, chose to return home with his family in 1906 or 1907. The couple became SSEM missionaries on Small Malaita, and Timothy attended the SSEM school at Onepusu on the west coast.…”

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“…The New Caledonia statistics and dates are also not firm, but a few hundred Malaitans and other Solomon Islanders worked alongside a few hundred Indians, 33,000 Javanese and around 10,000 to 13,000 labourers from the New Hebrides. 69 62 Corris 1973b;Meleisea 1980;Shineberg 1999. 63 Epi (5,084), Tana (4,241), Guadalcanal (4,188) and Ambrim (3,464).…”

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Making Mala

Moore¹

2017

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“…After each world war, the Society of Nations and the United Nations granted New Zealand a mandate and a trusteeship, respectively, for Western Sāmoa. Independent since 1962 and a member of the United Nations since 1975, Western Sāmoa is officially called "Sāmoa" since a 1997 parliamentary vote (Davidson 1967;Meleisea 1987aMeleisea , 1987b.…”

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Participating in the Global Competition: Denaturalizing “Flair” in Samoan Rugby

Clément¹

2014

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Sāmoa, Fiji, and Tonga have emerged as strong contenders in international rugby competitions in the last three decades. Meanwhile, rugby has been going through a period of “development” since the creation of the Rugby World Cup in 1987 and the introduction of professionalism in 1995. Here, I present an ethnography of rugby in Sāmoa that focuses on embodiment. Participant observation of practices as well as interviews illuminate how international norms and values are diffused within the sport structure, while a global sporting practice is indigenized and appropriated in the everyday practices of young Samoan men. In Samoan rugby, the emergence of “flair” appears as a category of analysis that naturalizes an embodied characteristic of Samoan village life. By denaturalizing “flair” in Samoan rugby, this article contributes to a critique of this notion, in addition to showing the assemblage that creates rugby in the Islands.

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The last days of the Melanesian labour trade in Western Samoa

Cited by 17 publications

References 2 publications

Re-Presenting Melanesia: Ignoble Savages and Melanesian Alter-Natives

Re-Presenting Melanesia: Ignoble Savages and Melanesian Alter-Natives

Making Mala

Participating in the Global Competition: Denaturalizing “Flair” in Samoan Rugby

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