Kon-Tiki Interactive is by the Voyager company, who have produced a number of fine titles. For a ... more Kon-Tiki Interactive is by the Voyager company, who have produced a number of fine titles. For a visit to them, go to The opening screen is almost identical to that of the Kon-Tiki Museum, being designed by the same team. Unlike the website, though, the CDROM functions perfectly and covers Heyerdahl's life work in text, pictures, movie clips and clever animation being very handsomely produced and at a good price. As with the better companies, Kon-Tiki Interactive is a 'hybrid', working equally well on the Macintosh, Windows 3.11 (That's what it says), Windows 95 and MS-DOS 6.0. Review by Grant McCall</p
An overview of an anthropology undergraduate fieldwork course taught since 1997 in the Faculty of... more An overview of an anthropology undergraduate fieldwork course taught since 1997 in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the UNSW by Grant McCall. The course involves homestays in Pacific Island villages for 3-4 weeks during which time students experience daily life of the families with whom they live. As well, they carry out fieldwork class exercises, complete a fieldwork diary and submit a final essay.
The paper opens with a discussion of Nissology, "The study of islands on their own terms&quo... more The paper opens with a discussion of Nissology, "The study of islands on their own terms", moving on to argue that islands can learn from one another. Eight characteristics of islands from a Nissological point of view are proposed. The paper surveys the political and academic organisations ...
Rapanui is the world's most remote continuously inhabited place and this isolation enclosed i... more Rapanui is the world's most remote continuously inhabited place and this isolation enclosed its remarkable prehistory and shaped its tragic chronicle of relations with the outside world. In 1862, Rapanui began its incorporation into a world system of labor and trade, culminating in the alteration of the local order with the assassination of king Riro in 1899. For over half a century, the island was cut off socially from the rest of the world, until 1965 when a modern Rapanui hero pushed it back into the position it occupies today. King Riro and Alfonso Rapu are compared for their sources of leadership and the effects they had, the consequences for local knowledge of colonial space and time are explored.</p
Race, class, and democracy in Fiji Colonial and pre-colonial Fiji Alliance Party rule Fiji and th... more Race, class, and democracy in Fiji Colonial and pre-colonial Fiji Alliance Party rule Fiji and the world The Fiji Labour Party The 1987 election and the Coalition Government The May coup Aftermath of the first coup The second coup and the Republic of Fiji Mara's return.
L'A. montre en quoi le changement climatique, et plus particulierement celui qui s'est pr... more L'A. montre en quoi le changement climatique, et plus particulierement celui qui s'est produit lors de la « petite ere glaciaire », peut affecter le developpement et le peuplement de la Polynesie et de Rapanui (Ile de Pâques)
There are national traditions in anthropological research, as is well known, and these follow mos... more There are national traditions in anthropological research, as is well known, and these follow most often the colonial interests of the country concerned. Americans in Micronesia, British in India, and so on. Apart from rich research traditionsin Africa, the Caribbean and ...
PMB1193 Reel 11., Rapanui (Easter Island) Cuttings from the Chilean Press. Feb 1972-Oct 2001. Inc... more PMB1193 Reel 11., Rapanui (Easter Island) Cuttings from the Chilean Press. Feb 1972-Oct 2001. Include articles from the following newpapers: El Clarin, Santiago; El Mercurio, Santiago; El Mercurio, Valparaiso; El Metropolitano, Santiago; El Siglo, Santiago; El Sur, ...
Tourism at the grassroots: villagers and visitors in the …, 2008
2 Another (unintended) legacy of Captain Cook? The evolution of Rapanui (Easter Island) tourism G... more 2 Another (unintended) legacy of Captain Cook? The evolution of Rapanui (Easter Island) tourism Grant McCall Rapanui Islanders take a certain bitter delight in how the name for their home can be translated as either'the navel of the world'or'the place at the end of the world'. Tepito o ...
Kon-Tiki Interactive is by the Voyager company, who have produced a number of fine titles. For a ... more Kon-Tiki Interactive is by the Voyager company, who have produced a number of fine titles. For a visit to them, go to The opening screen is almost identical to that of the Kon-Tiki Museum, being designed by the same team. Unlike the website, though, the CDROM functions perfectly and covers Heyerdahl's life work in text, pictures, movie clips and clever animation being very handsomely produced and at a good price. As with the better companies, Kon-Tiki Interactive is a 'hybrid', working equally well on the Macintosh, Windows 3.11 (That's what it says), Windows 95 and MS-DOS 6.0. Review by Grant McCall</p
An overview of an anthropology undergraduate fieldwork course taught since 1997 in the Faculty of... more An overview of an anthropology undergraduate fieldwork course taught since 1997 in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the UNSW by Grant McCall. The course involves homestays in Pacific Island villages for 3-4 weeks during which time students experience daily life of the families with whom they live. As well, they carry out fieldwork class exercises, complete a fieldwork diary and submit a final essay.
The paper opens with a discussion of Nissology, "The study of islands on their own terms&quo... more The paper opens with a discussion of Nissology, "The study of islands on their own terms", moving on to argue that islands can learn from one another. Eight characteristics of islands from a Nissological point of view are proposed. The paper surveys the political and academic organisations ...
Rapanui is the world's most remote continuously inhabited place and this isolation enclosed i... more Rapanui is the world's most remote continuously inhabited place and this isolation enclosed its remarkable prehistory and shaped its tragic chronicle of relations with the outside world. In 1862, Rapanui began its incorporation into a world system of labor and trade, culminating in the alteration of the local order with the assassination of king Riro in 1899. For over half a century, the island was cut off socially from the rest of the world, until 1965 when a modern Rapanui hero pushed it back into the position it occupies today. King Riro and Alfonso Rapu are compared for their sources of leadership and the effects they had, the consequences for local knowledge of colonial space and time are explored.</p
Race, class, and democracy in Fiji Colonial and pre-colonial Fiji Alliance Party rule Fiji and th... more Race, class, and democracy in Fiji Colonial and pre-colonial Fiji Alliance Party rule Fiji and the world The Fiji Labour Party The 1987 election and the Coalition Government The May coup Aftermath of the first coup The second coup and the Republic of Fiji Mara's return.
L'A. montre en quoi le changement climatique, et plus particulierement celui qui s'est pr... more L'A. montre en quoi le changement climatique, et plus particulierement celui qui s'est produit lors de la « petite ere glaciaire », peut affecter le developpement et le peuplement de la Polynesie et de Rapanui (Ile de Pâques)
There are national traditions in anthropological research, as is well known, and these follow mos... more There are national traditions in anthropological research, as is well known, and these follow most often the colonial interests of the country concerned. Americans in Micronesia, British in India, and so on. Apart from rich research traditionsin Africa, the Caribbean and ...
PMB1193 Reel 11., Rapanui (Easter Island) Cuttings from the Chilean Press. Feb 1972-Oct 2001. Inc... more PMB1193 Reel 11., Rapanui (Easter Island) Cuttings from the Chilean Press. Feb 1972-Oct 2001. Include articles from the following newpapers: El Clarin, Santiago; El Mercurio, Santiago; El Mercurio, Valparaiso; El Metropolitano, Santiago; El Siglo, Santiago; El Sur, ...
Tourism at the grassroots: villagers and visitors in the …, 2008
2 Another (unintended) legacy of Captain Cook? The evolution of Rapanui (Easter Island) tourism G... more 2 Another (unintended) legacy of Captain Cook? The evolution of Rapanui (Easter Island) tourism Grant McCall Rapanui Islanders take a certain bitter delight in how the name for their home can be translated as either'the navel of the world'or'the place at the end of the world'. Tepito o ...
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