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Mormon Pacific Historical Society

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Mormonism And The Maori: A Look At Beginnings Apr 2002

Mormonism And The Maori: A Look At Beginnings

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched a sustained mission to the New Zealand Maori beginning in the 1880s. Within a few short years thousands had been baptized. By the turn of the century, the church counted nearly a tenth of the total Maori population as members, with a significantly higher percentage in certain pas (settlements) along the east coast of the North Island from the southern Wairarapa to Poverty Bay and beyond.1 The reason Mormonism was so well accepted among a significant minority of Maori in the final decades of the nineteenth century and why it continues …

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Beisinger Hall, Church College Of New Zealand, Temple View Apr 2002

Beisinger Hall, Church College Of New Zealand, Temple View

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Bill Heperi: We're going to have two presentations this evening, it's all about Church history, it's about a lot of the missionaries that came to New Zealand, way back in the early 1900s, Sister Rangi Parker will be our presenter and after half an hour of that we'll follow through with a recess for a moment, and then we'll have John Aspinall, he'll present to you rather interesting pictures of the labor missionary days when they constructed this whole campus, temple, the college, visitor center, and surrounding faculty homes. So without further ado I'm going to ask Sister Rangi Parker …

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Andrew Jenson In New Zealand 1895-1896 Apr 2002

Andrew Jenson In New Zealand 1895-1896

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Andrew Jenson was Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for many years. He was born in 1850 in Damgren, Denmark. The family joined the Church in 1854 and emigrated to Utah in 1866, settling in Pleasant Grove. After a mission back to Denmark Andrew become interested in publishing material about the history of the Church. In 1888 he traveled throughout the Eastern U.S. collecting material on Church history.

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Vol. 24 No. 3/4 (2001): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Apr 2002

Vol. 24 No. 3/4 (2001): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Front Matter for the Vol. 24, No 3/4-Sept/Dec 2001 edition of the Pacific Studies Journal.

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Vol. 25 Nos. 1/2 (2002): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Mar 2002

Vol. 25 Nos. 1/2 (2002): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Front Matter for the Vol. 25, No 1/2-Mar/Jun 2002 edition of the Pacific Studies Journal.

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Rice And Tea, Fish And Taro: Sikaiana Migration To Honiara, William W. Donner Mar 2002

Rice And Tea, Fish And Taro: Sikaiana Migration To Honiara, William W. Donner

Pacific Studies

For the past seventy years, the people from Sikaiana in the Solomon Islands have been migrating away from their atoll. After World War II, most Sikaiana migrants settled in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, located on Guadalcanal Island. Several generations of Sikaiana people have matured in Honiara, and, during my stays in the 1980s, the Sikaiana population in Honiara outnumbered the population on Sikaiana. In Honiara, Sikaiana migrants have developed many activities that bring them together as a community, including a residential settlement, funerals, wedding exchanges, and fund-raising events. Sikaiana people living on the atoll form a small …

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From Moral Community To Moral Communities: The Foundations Of Migrant Social Solidarity Among Samoans In Urban Aotearoa/New Zealand, Cluny Macpherson Mar 2002

From Moral Community To Moral Communities: The Foundations Of Migrant Social Solidarity Among Samoans In Urban Aotearoa/New Zealand, Cluny Macpherson

Pacific Studies

There is clear evidence of moral community within early expatriate migrant Samoan communities in New Zealand. This moral community was partly the consequence of many migrants’ common life experiences and their resultant commitment to, and belief in, the integrity of their worldview and lifestyle. While commitment was a necessary condition, it was not a sufficient condition for moral community. This article argues that critical to the emergence of moral community were demographic, political, and economic factors—often underrated in anthropological explanations—that influenced the choice of migrants by their families, the processes of migration, and the concentration of migrants in residential and …

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Maintaining Marshallese Fundamentals With Christian Fundamentalism, Linda Allen Mar 2002

Maintaining Marshallese Fundamentals With Christian Fundamentalism, Linda Allen

Pacific Studies

From 1902–1903 Emile Durkheim offered a series of lectures at the Sorbonne in which he suggested that participation in a “moral community” compels us to recognize ourselves in the collectivity and to commit ourselves to moral goals of the group. This essay discusses the formation of a Durkheimian community by migrants from the Republic of the Marshall Islands to the midwestern city of Enid, Oklahoma, and attempts to identify the political and economic factors that made the community’s formation possible. More important, however, this essay explains why this particular moral community became essential for the social and psychological survival of …

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Marae And Tribal Identity In Urban Aotearoa/New Zealand, Paul Tapsell Mar 2002

Marae And Tribal Identity In Urban Aotearoa/New Zealand, Paul Tapsell

Pacific Studies

This article examines the ceremonial courtyard called a marae, the quintessential focus of tribal Maori society, which not only represents customary authority over surrounding land but also provides the forum on which taonga (ancestral treasures) are ritually performed. Historically rooted in the Pacific, the tribal marae has stayed intact for countless generations serving generations of kin communities in their ever-changing social, political, and economic contexts. After World War II the marae underwent new transformations as descendants began migrating in their thousands from relative rural isolation to newly developing metropolitan areas. Competition and accessing new opportunities based upon ethnicity gave rise …

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Abuse And Discipline: The Creation Of Moral Community In Domestic Violence Groups On The Wai‘Anae Coast (Hawai‘I), Judith S. Modell Mar 2002

Abuse And Discipline: The Creation Of Moral Community In Domestic Violence Groups On The Wai‘Anae Coast (Hawai‘I), Judith S. Modell

Pacific Studies

This article discusses the creation of moral community in two self-help groups on the Wai‘anae Coast of O‘ahu in the state of Hawai‘i. One is a women’s domestic violence group and the other a men’s anger management group. Both groups use freely constructed narratives from the participants as the foundation for establishing rules of conduct and standards of the “good person.” In each case, facilitators bring the lessons and the doctrine of a state agency to informal proceedings. The article argues that out of the intersection of participant interpretations of experiences and state-sanctioned forms of discipline come the lineaments of …

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Comparative Criminalization: Cultural Meanings Of Adultery And Gender Violence In Hawai‘I In 1850 And 1990, Sally Engle Merry Mar 2002

Comparative Criminalization: Cultural Meanings Of Adultery And Gender Violence In Hawai‘I In 1850 And 1990, Sally Engle Merry

Pacific Studies

This essay analyzes the impact of court cases concerning sexuality and adultery on customary understandings of kinship and gender in Hilo, Hawai‘i. During the periods covered the nature of the cases, the content of the law, and the implementation of punishment changed radically. Nevertheless, there are similarities in modes of criminalization during the 1840s and 1850s, on the one hand, and during the 1990s, on the other. Both used the authority and sanctioning power of the law to redefine marriage and gender relations. Both were implemented through local practices of police, courts, and corrections/treatment officials, which provided incentives for compliance …

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Anutans In Honiara: A Polynesian People’S Struggle To Maintain Community In The Solomon Islands, Richard Feinberg Mar 2002

Anutans In Honiara: A Polynesian People’S Struggle To Maintain Community In The Solomon Islands, Richard Feinberg

Pacific Studies

As formerly isolated peoples are brought under the umbrella of a new international political system and the world market economy, the moral order that underpins their old communities is inevitably challenged. In an attempt to meet this challenge, they may look to common origin, distinctive genealogical characteristics, shared connections to a special place, or their unique beliefs and customs. This essay examines people of Anuta, a remote Polynesian outpost in the Solomon Islands—the pressures and enticements encouraging Anutans to emigrate to Honiara, the national capital, and the way in which resettlement has created opportunities and problems for both the home …

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Vol. 25 Nos. 1/2 (2002): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Mar 2002

Vol. 25 Nos. 1/2 (2002): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US $26.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, …

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“Titirangi Is The Mountain”: Representing Maori Community In Auckland, Daniel Rosenblatt Mar 2002

“Titirangi Is The Mountain”: Representing Maori Community In Auckland, Daniel Rosenblatt

Pacific Studies

Although “culture movements” of the sort that have become increasingly common in the Pacific and elsewhere are reactions and responses to colonialism and globalization, and are often at least partly inspired by imported models, they nevertheless have locally (culturally) specific content and effects. This is because the things that are “revived” are always grounded in particular local institutions, genres of practice, traditions of interpretation, and modes of expression. Form in these cases carries content, and the content is for that reason rooted in local socially inherited traditions. Contemporary New Zealand Maori liken urban communities to those based on kinship, and …

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