Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword Stephen Little -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Engaging with Interactions: Traditions as Context-Bound Articulations Elfriede Hermann -- Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings The Cook/Forster Collection, for Example Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin -- Part I Early Encounters -- Histories of the Before Lelu, Nan Madol, and Deep Time David Hanlon -- Beyond the Beach? Re-articulating the Limen in Oceanic Pasts, Presents, and Futures Margaret Jolly -- Encountering Agency Islanders, European Voyagers, and the Production of Race in Oceania Bronwen Douglas -- Aphrodite's Island Sexual Mythologies in Early Contact Tahiti Anne Salmond -- An Encounter with Violence in Paradise Georg Forster's Reflections on War in Aotearoa, Tahiti, and Tonga (1772-1775)Gundolf Krüger -- Inventing Polynesia Serge Tcherkézoff -- Part II Memories -- Naming and Memory on Tanna, Vanuatu Lamont Lindstrom -- Inventing Traditions and Remembering the Past in Manus Ton Otto -- Social Mimesis, Commemoration, and Ethnic Performance Fiji Banaban Representations of the Past Wolfgang Kempf -- Part III Global and (Trans)local Processes -- Moving onto the Stage Tourism and the Transformation of Tahitian Dance Miriam Kahn -- Producing Inalienable Objects in a Global Market The Solien Besena in Contemporary Australia Jacquelyn A. Lewis-Harris -- Alienation and Appropriation Fijian Water and the Pacific Romance in Fiji and New York Martha Kaplan -- Shanti and Mana The Loss and Recovery of Culture under Postcolonial Conditions in Fiji John D. Kelly -- Justice in Wallis-'Uvea Customary Rights and Republican Law in a French Overseas Territory Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon -- Part IV Cultural Exchange and Identities -- Maori Traditions in Analogy with the Past Toon van Meijl -- Contemporary Tongan Artists and the Reshaping of Oceanic Identity Paul van der Grijp.

A Tale of Three Time Travelers Maintaining Relationships, Exploring Visual Technologies Karen L. Nero -- Cultural Change in Oceania Remembering the Historical Questions Peter Hempenstall -- Epilogue Aletta Biersack -- Contributors -- Index -- About the Editor -- Back Cover.