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Pacific Themes: Identity

Use this guide to find information on Pacific identity,measina/koloa/taonga, aiga/family, gender and sexuality, climate change and voyaging. Click on the tabs below to learn more.

Books and book chapters

Pacific Diaspora by Paul Spickard, Joanne Rondilla, Debbie Hippolite Wright (Editors)
ISBN: 0824825624
Publication Date: 2002
Pacific Identities and Well-Being by Margaret Nelson Agee, Tracey McIntosh , Philip Culbertson, Cabrini 'Ofa Makasiale (Editors)
ISBN: 0203113578
Publication Date: 2013
See Chapter 2: Not Another New Zealand-born Identity Crisis: Well-being and the Politics of Belonging (pp. 27-45) by Mila, K.
Tagata o te Moana Nui: The Evolving Identities of Pacific Peoples in Aotearoa, New Zealand by Cluny Macpherson, Paul Spoonley, Melani Anae
ISBN: 0864693699
Publication Date: 2001
See: The New Vikings of the Sunrise: New Zealand-Born in the Information Age (pp. 89-101) by M. Anae.

Thesis

Fofoa-i-vao-'ese: The Identity Journeys of NZ-born Samoans
Melani Anae (1998)
PhD Anthropology.

Articles

Racial Identity, Phenotype, and Self-Esteem Among Biracial Polynesian/White Individuals
Allen, G., Garriott, P. O., Reyes, C. J., & Hsieh, C. (2013). Family Relations, 62(1), 82-91.
Māori and Pasifika Language, Identity, and Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand
Matika, Correna M., et al. (2021). Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online 16(2): 396-418.
Between Marginality and Marketability: Contesting Representations of Diasporic Pacific Identities
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2016). Nordic Journal of English Studies 15(1): 25-45.
Pacific Youth, Acculturation and Identity: The Relationship Between Ethnic Identity and Well-being: New Directions for Research
Manuela, S., & Anae, M. (2017). Pacific Dynamics 1(1): 129-147.

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