Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 6, Number 7, 1 July 1989 — "Artistic heritage in a changlng Pacific" [ARTICLE]

"Artistic heritage in a changlng Pacific"

Don't let the long academic titles fool you — there are some gems of humor and insight among the papers to be presented at the Pacific Arts Association symposium August 6-12. Many will be aecompanied by slides or videotape showing. A sampling:

• "Greetings from paradise: the representation of traditional Hawaiian culture in postcards," by Christin J. Mamiya, University of Nebraska • "T o beat or not to beat; that is the question: issues brought to fold by the invention of a tapa-beating maehine in Tonga," by Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk, University of California at San Diego • The concept of style in Hawaiian sculpture: a proposal for a reclassification of Hawaiian imagery" by Jerome Feldman of Hawaii Loa College • "Kupe'e, niho, pupu and wiliwili," by Janthina Morris • "Prehistory and human ecology on the island of Moloka'i: problems and prospects" by Thomas J. Riley, University of Illinois • "The feather skirt of Nahienaena," by John Charlot, East-West Center • "Coastal land forms and early settlement in the Marianas: a new look at an old problem," by Brian M. Butier, Southern IIlinois University at Carbondaīe. • "The pareo: persistence and revival in a French Polynesian folk art," by Laura Jones, Stanford University • "Society Islands Taumi gorgets," by Roger G. Rose, Bishop Museum • "Nuku'alofans at the movies: Why do they laugh in all the wrong places?" by Leialoha Apo Perkins, Wai'anae • "Maori Art of Tauranga Moana — the

continuity of loeal art forms," by Des Tatana Kahotea, University of Waikato, New Zealand • "You read 'im this country: landscape and acrylic painting in a central Australian county," by Paul Faulstich, East-West Center • "Tradition and transformation: Kosraen and Pohnpeian art during the 19th and early 20th centuries," by Kathleen S. Bartels, University of Hawai'i The public is invited to attend at no charge what promises to be a provocative opening lecture of the Pacific Arts Association International Symposium. On Sunday, Aug. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Honolulu Aeademy of Arts theater, Dr. Sidney Moko Mead, president of the Pacific Arts Association will speak on "Artistic Heritage in a Changing Pacific." Dr. Mead will explore the meaning of artistic heritage and its importance to the people of the fourth world. He will discuss how fourth world societies such as Hawaiians, Maori and Tahitians maintain their cultural heritage in the face of commereial exploitation from the United States and Japan, and how these societies ean prevent being manipulated. Mead, who is a Maori, will also speak about how these fourth world societies ean maintain as well as develop their heritage within those conditions.