https://thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.php/JPS/issue/feed 2024-10-19T16:01:09-05:00 Roi Burnett jps@auckland.ac.nz Open Journal Systems <p>Since 1892 the Polynesian Society has provided a major forum for discussion of a wide range of social, cultural, indigenous and historical topics related to the past and present lives and cultures of peoples of Pacific/Oceanic heritage, including those of the traditional cultural areas of Polynesia (including New Zealand Māori), Melanesia and Micronesia. The Society has a long-standing memoir series which is published intermittently.</p> <p>The Society's main publication,<em> Waka Kuaka:</em> The <em>Journal of the Polynesian Society </em>(formerly <em>Journal of the Polynesian Society</em>), is published quarterly (ISSN: 0032-4000, E-ISSN: 2230-5955) and globally ranks in the top 90 Anthropology journals (Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports 2020). <em>JPS</em> is indexed in SCOPUS, WEB OF SCIENCE, INFORMIT NEW ZEALAND COLLECTION, INDEX NEW ZEALAND, ANTHROPOLOGY PLUS, ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER, HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS, EBSCOhost, MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY,<br />JSTOR, CURRENT CONTENTS (Social &amp; Behavioural Sciences).</p> <p>Recent back issues (from 2012) can be accessed by clicking on the ARCHIVES link above, selecting the volume and issue of interest, and then opening the Table of Contents to select the article (in PDF format) that you wish to see. </p> https://thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.php/JPS/article/view/721 2024-10-19T15:51:21-05:00 Hamish Macdonald jps@auckland.ac.nz 2024-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2024 The Polynesian Society https://thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.php/JPS/article/view/719 2024-10-19T15:38:52-05:00 Hamish Macdonald jps@auckland.ac.nz 2024-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2024 The Polynesian Society https://thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.php/JPS/article/view/718 2024-10-19T15:28:22-05:00 Hamish Macdonald jps@auckland.ac.nz 2024-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2024 The Polynesian Society https://thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.php/JPS/article/view/717 2024-10-19T15:15:42-05:00 Gail Romano jps@auckland.ac.nz 2024-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2024 The Polynesian Society https://thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.php/JPS/article/view/716 2024-10-19T14:55:28-05:00 Pauline Reynolds jps@auckland.ac.nz 2024-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2024 The Polynesian Society https://thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.php/JPS/article/view/715 2024-10-19T14:41:47-05:00 Sarah McLean-Orsborn jps@auckland.ac.nz 2024-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2024 The Polynesian Society https://thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.php/JPS/article/view/714 2024-10-19T14:32:38-05:00 Lucy Mackintosh jps@auckland.ac.nz 2024-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2024 The Polynesian Society https://thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.php/JPS/article/view/713 2024-10-19T14:03:10-05:00 Richard Hamasaki jps@auckland.ac.nz Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick jps@auckland.ac.nz 2024-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2024 The Polynesian Society https://thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.php/JPS/article/view/712 2024-10-19T13:40:56-05:00 Pauline Reynolds jps@auckland.ac.nz

<p>This piece is an exploration of thought processes, logistical planning, research and creative practice involved in conceptualising and making the missing barkcloth components of an ’ahu heva tūpāpa’u (chief mourner’s regalia) that went on permanent exhibition for the opening of the new Perth Museum in Scotland in March 2024. The regalia is possibly one of around ten collected in Tahiti by Captain James Cook during his second Pacific voyage, with one of these ending up in Perth via the collections of Dr David Ramsay. During the voyage, or possibly during its life in Perth, the regalia became separated from some of its barkcloth components. This paper is a record of the process that went into making the replica pieces.</p>

2024-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2024 The Polynesian Society https://thepolynesiansociety.org/jps/index.php/JPS/article/view/711 2024-10-19T04:10:02-05:00 Rogena Sterling jps@auckland.ac.nz

<p>An important worldview in traditional cultures, especially within te ao Māori (the Māori worldview), is that embodiment concerns personhood and relationality, as persons are bodily situated within the environment including in all things between the earth and the heavens. However, the social theories and background of the 1930s–1950s have had a significant impact on the idea and foundations of embodiment. These theories relied on ideas of sexism, though were also linked with racism. Gender was established by medicine as an apparatus of power and control over bodies and beings. Intersexuality was at the heart of the establishment of gender, with its invisibility ensured as a means of maintaining the status quo of the West. Gender was appropriated by Western feminists, disguised as an ahistorical and acultural signifier, to universalise the Western liberal worldview. This article traces the history and purpose of the concept of gender and the way it has been understood and deployed as an apparatus in society. It then illustrates how the deployment of gender has affected the embodiment of intersexuality and te ao Māori (such as on wāhine (women) and takatāpui (sexual diversity)). Lastly, the article sets out the importance of decentring gender to enable a culturally accountable embodiment with a sexuality of dignity that is not limited and disembodied through gender.</p>

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