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By Robert Borofsky
A multicentred, dialogic background of the Pacific. even if set in Samoa, Fiji, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea or in other places, each one essay addresses questions which are requested via students in all places.
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And Douglas has called for a “strategic appropriation of others’ concepts. . We cannot ignore the insights of critical theory, structural linguistics and hermeneutics” (1992:106). One can see the field’s strengths in another way: Stoler and Cooper in their recent Tensions of Empire emphasize that “imperial elites may have viewed their domains from a metropolitan center, but their actions, let alone their consequences, were not necessarily determined there” (1997:29). This has been Pacific history gospel since the 1950s.
Denoon, in a chapter on “Land, Labour and Independent Development,” states, for example: “Throughout the nineteenth century, ambitious Pacific Islanders saw a variety of chances to transform their lives and their production and exchange. Several formed alliances with foreign adventurers, to extract or exploit resources. As the balance of political power tilted against the chiefs, however, it became increasingly difficult to retain land, labour, and autonomy” (1997b:152). I would add two final—but critical—points.
Few writers seem able to pull back from the microcosm to consider the implications, if any, for a broader or macrocosmic view of islands’ history” (1979:83). Leckie calls it “a lack of synthesis” (1992:151). Trends that sweep the social sciences beyond the Pacific—such as subaltern history—tend to only slowly move into the region’s scholarly writings. Returning to a point suggested above, we need to remember that the field’s self-defined area of study—the “Pacific”—is a constructed artifact of the discipline.