Publications of Martha Kaplan
Professor of Anthropology
Vassar College

Publications:

2005 Outside Gods and Foreign Powers: Making Local History with Global Means in the Pacific. Ethnohistory special issue 52:1(2005). Contents: Preface by Marshall Sahlins, Introduction by Martha Kaplan; Original papers by John D Kelly, Andrew Lattas, Deborah McDougall, Martha Kaplan, Daniel Rosenblatt, and Margaret Jolly, with Comments by Robert J. Foster and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney


2005 "The Hau of Other Peoples' Gifts" Ethnohistory 52:1(2005)


2004 "Neither Traditional Nor Foreign: Dialogics of protest and agency in Fijian History" In Holger Jebens, Ton Otto, Karl Heinz Kohl eds. Cargo Cult and Culture Critique. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press pp 59-79.


2004 "Promised Lands: From Colonial Law-giving to Postcolonial Takeovers in Fiji" In Sally Engle Merry and Don Brenneis, eds. Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawaii. Santa Fe: School of American Research pp 153-186.


2004 "Fiji's Coups: The Politics of Representation and the Representation of Politics:" in Victoria Lockwood, ed. Pacific Islands Societies in a Global World. NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall pp.72-85


2004 "My ambition is much greater than independence": US Power, the UN World, the Nation-State, and Their Critics" Co-author John D. Kelly. In Prasenjit Duara, ed. Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, Routledge. Rewriting History series pp131-151


2003 "The Magical Power of the (Printed) Word in Fiji" in Peter Pels and Birgit Meyer, eds. Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment. Stanford University Press pp. 183-199

2001   Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization. Co-author John D. Kelly. University of Chicago Press.

2001 "Nation and Decolonization: Toward a New Anthropology of Nationalism"Co-author John D. Kelly. Anthropological Theory1(4)419-437.

1999   "On Discourse and Power: 'Cults' and 'Orientals' in Colonial Fiji" Co-author John D. Kelly. American Ethnologist 26 (4) 843-863.

1999   "Race and Rights in Fiji" Co-author John D. Kelly. in Pinar Batur-VanderLippe and Joe Feagin, eds. The Global Color Line: Racial and Ethnic Inequality and Struggle from a Global Perspective. Research in Politics and Society, Volume 6 237-257.

1998   "When 8,870-850=1: Discourses against Democracy in Fiji Past and Present" in Dru Gladney, ed. Making Majorities. Stanford University Press.

1995   Neither Cargo nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji. Duke University Press.

1995   "Blood on the Grass and Dogs Will Speak: Ritual-Politics and the Nation in Post-Colonial Fiji" in Robert J. Foster, ed. Nation Making in Postcolonial Melanesia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

1995   "Panopticon in Poona: An Essay on Foucault and Colonialism." Cultural Anthropology 10 (1) 85-98.

1994   "Rethinking Resistance: Dialogics of Disaffection in Colonial Fiji." Co-author John D. Kelly. American Ethnologist 21 (1) 123-151.

1993   "Battlements, Temples, and the Landscape of Tuka: The Archaeological Recod of a Cultural Transformation in 19th Century Fiji." Co-author Mara Rosenthal. Journal of the Polynesian Society 102 (2) 121-145.

1992   "Imagining a Nation: Race, Politics and Crisis in Post-Colonial Fiji" in Thomas Harding, Ben Wallace and Victoria Lockwood, eds. Contemporary Pacific Socity: Studies in Development and Change. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

1990   "Meaning, Agency and Colonial History: Navosavakadua and the Tuka Movement in Fiji." American Ethnologist 17 (1) 3-22.

1990   "History, Structure and Ritual." Co-author John D. Kelly. Annual Review of Anthropology 19 119-150.

1990   "Christianity, People of the Land, and Chiefs, in Fiji" in John Barker, ed. Chrisitanity in Oceania. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Monograph XII 189-207. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

1989   "The 'Dangerous and Disaffected Native' in Fiji: British Colonial Constructions of the Tuka Movement." Social Analysis 26 20-43.

1989   "Luveniwai as the British Saw It: Contructions of Custom and Disorder in Colonial Fiji." Ethnohistory 36 (4) 349-371.

1988   "The Coups in Fiji: Colonial Contradictions and the Post-Colonial Crisis." Critique of Anthropology 8 (3) 93-116.

1988   Land and Sea and the New White Men: A Reconsideration of the Fijian Tuka Movement. Ph.D. Dissertation, Anthropology, University of Chicago.

1981   "The Meanings of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii, 1830-1849." M.A. Thesis, Anthropology, University of Chicago.

Book Reviews:

1996   Review of Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji by Anne E. Becker. American Ethnologist..

1994   Review of Kava: The Pacific Drug by Vincent Lebot, Mark Merlin & Lamont Lindstrom, and of The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia by Ron Brunton. Economic Botany 48 (2) 227-228.

1994   Review of Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology edited by Aletta Biersack. American Ethnologist 21 (4) 1015-1016.

1994   Review of Fiji: Race and Politics in an Island State by Michael Howard. American Ethnologist 21 (4) 1032-1033.

1993   Review of Entangled Objects by Nicholas Thomas. The Contemporary Pacific 5 (2) 452-454.

1992   Review of Making Sense of Hierarchy: Cognition as Social Process in Fiji by Chrisina Toren. American Anthropologist 94 (2) 495-6.

1992   Review of Culture and History in the Pacific edited by Jukka Siikala. Man (n.s.) 227 (3) 685.

1991   Review of The Ambiguity of Rapprochement: Reflections of Anthroplogists on their Controversial Relationship with Missionaries edited by Roland Bonsen, Hans Marks, and Jelle Miedema. American Anthropologist 93 (3) 716.


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