UU 204 PACIFIC WORLDS UNIT 1 Week 3 Tutorial Dr Poliana Havea Semester 1, 2023
RE-CAP FROM WEEKS 1-2: Purpose of UU 204 is to instill & demonstrate… i.Pacific consciousness/awareness/appreciation -Places, histories, cultures, arts,andpolitics of Oceania. Specific issues we will discuss include migration patterns; colonialandpost-colonial contexts ii.Sustainability thinking -Pacific understandings ofculturalandnatural heritage,resourcesandconflictover these resources; andfuture challenges and opportunities ‘Epeli Hau’ofa(Our Sea of Islands) Teresia Teaiwa(Classroom as a Metaphorical Canoe) Bedford, 2018(Going Beyond the Known…) Harris-Weisler, 2018(Prehistoric Human Impacts to Marine Mollusks…)
UNIT 1 SUMMARY NOTES -Revisit Unit 1 summary notes again: •Learning outcomes •Key terms •Learning activities •Readings •Videos •Study schedule
WEEK 3 VIDEO Wayfinding - Watch video ofWorldwide Voyage History of Hōkūleʻa and Polynesian Voyaging -“A story of a society revaluing its relationship to its island home. It is a story that is crucially important as the world’s populations struggle with the ability to live in balance with our island that we call Earth. It is a story that is still being written for our children and all future generations…” -Also see this link for more on theStory of Hōkūleʻa
WEEK 3 COMPULSORY READINGS Finney, 1999(The Sin at Awarua) •Discusswayfinding in the Pacific Region; • Explainthe role, status and significance of navigators and canoes in the Pacific (Text below is taken from:) -Embedded in the story ofHōkūle’aand the culture that created her is the story of a 2000- year-old relationship with special islands and the sea. It is a story that was almost lost, and was close to extinction. But ultimately it is a story of survival, rediscovery, and the restoration of pride and dignity. It is a story of a society revaluing its relationship to its island home. It is a story that is crucially important as the world’s populations struggle with the ability to live in balance with our island that we call Earth. It is a story that is still being written for our children and all future generations.
-Hōkūleʻa, our ‘Star of Gladness’, began as a dream of reviving the legacy of exploration, courage, and ingenuity that brought the first Polynesians to the archipelago of Hawaiʻi. The canoes that brought the first Hawaiians to their island home had disappeared from earth. Cultural extinction felt dangerously close to many Hawaiians when artist Herb Kane dreamed of rebuilding a double-hulled sailing canoe similar to the ones that his ancestors sailed. Though more than 600 years had passed since the last of these canoes had been seen, this dream brought together people of diverse backgrounds and professions. Since she was first built and launched in the 1970s,Hōkūle’acontinues to bring people together from all walks of life. She is more than a voyaging canoe—she represents the common desire shared by the people of Hawaii, the Pacific, and the World to protect our most cherished values and places from disappearing.
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