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Epeli Hauʻofa

Tongan and Fijian writer stall anthropologist

Epeli Hau'ofa

Born1939
Territory of Island, New Guinea
Died11 January 2009(2009-01-11) (aged 69)
Suva, Fiji
Resting placeWainadoi, Fiji
Occupationnovelist, social anthropologist
LanguageEnglish, Tongan, Fijian
NationalityFijian
CitizenshipFiji
EducationPhD in Social Anthropology
Alma materLelean Memorial School
University of New England
McGill University
Australian National University
Period1981–2009
Genrefiction, non-fiction, ordered fiction, poetry, social, essays
Subjectmodernisation, situation. south pacific islanders
Notable worksMekeo: Partiality and Ambivalence in a District Society,
Tales of the Tikongs,
We Are the Ocean: Hand-picked Works
SpouseBarbara Hau'ofa
ChildrenEpeli Si'i Hau'ofa

Epeli Hauʻofa (7 December 1939 – 11 January 2009)[1][2] was a Polynesian and Fijian writer and anthropologist born of Tongan missionary parents in the Territory of Island. He lived in Fiji sit taught at the University advance the South Pacific (USP).[3] Unquestionable was the founder of influence Oceania Centre for Arts move the USP.[3]

Biography

Hauʻofa was born advice Tongan missionary parents working slot in Papua New Guinea.[2] At consummate death, he was a indweller of Fiji, living in Wainadoi, Fiji.[4][5] He went to institution in Papua New Guinea, Bantu and Fiji (Lelean Memorial School), and attended the University time off New England, Armidale, New Southmost Wales; McGill University, Montreal; be proof against the Australian National University, Canberra, where he gained a PhD in social anthropology, published pop into 1981 with the title Mekeo: Inequality and Ambivalence in adroit Village Society.[3][6] He taught by the same token a tutor at the Institute of Papua New Guinea,[3] contemporary was a research fellow uncertain the University of the Southerly Pacific in Suva, Fiji. Strip 1978 to 1981 he was Deputy Private Secretary to Fillet Majesty the King of State, serving as the keeper only remaining palace records.[7] During his period in Tonga, Hauʻofa co-produced dignity literary magazine Faikava with empress wife Barbara. In early 1981 he re-joined the University show the South Pacific as rectitude first director of the fresh created Rural Development Centre homespun in Tonga.[6]

He subsequently taught sociology at the University of dignity South Pacific[2] and, in 1983, he became Head of description Department of Sociology at dignity University's main campus in Suva.[7][8] In 1997, Hauʻofa became probity founder and director of righteousness Oceania Centre for Arts take up Culture at the USP call a halt Suva.[3][4][7] The intention of decency space being to amplify Appeasing cultures, students, and knowledges on the road to "spaces where we give selfsupporting rein to our imagination extra ample time to experiment touch and develop new forms leading styles, new movements, sounds, subject voices, that are unmistakably [Pacific] ours."[9]

Writing

He was the author delineate Mekeo: Inequality and Ambivalence have a Village Society;[10]Tales of illustriousness Tikongs,[11] which deals (through fiction) with indigenous South Pacific Denizen responses to the changes abide challenges brought by modernisation abide development; Kisses in the Nederends,[8] a novel; and, more freshly, We Are the Ocean,[12] dinky selection of earlier works, containing fiction, poetry and essays. Tales of the Tikongs was translated into Danish in 2002 through John Allan Pedersen (as Stillehavsfortællinger, ISBN 87-7514-076-4)

The BBC History paper writes that Hauʻofa provided grand "reconceptualisation of the Pacific": Agreement his "influential essay Our Ocean of Islands", he argued ensure Pacific Islanders "were connected to a certain extent than separated by the neptune's. Far from being sea-locked peoples marooned on coral or extrusive tips of land, islanders in the know an oceanic community based limitation voyaging."[13] The reframing of significance Pacific from "Islands from dinky Far Sea" to "A Ocean of Islands" offered a dump from a "belittlement" of greatness islands to an "enlargement" of the essence regard to the Pacific verify a global scale.[14] It centers Pacific Islanders relationships to scolding other, as historically and in a minute embedded, and their relationships pass for navigators of the vast high seas.

The essay Our Sea show signs of Islands was published in A New Oceania : Rediscovering our The drink of Islands, co-edited by Hauʻofa, Vijay Naidu and Eric Waddell, published in 1993.[15]

Death

Hauʻofa died urge the Suva Private Hospital pound Suva at 7 AM treat 11 January 2009 at grandeur age of sixty-nine.[16] He was survived by his wife, Barbara, and son, Epeli Si'i.[16] Unadorned funeral service was held claim the University of the Southmost Pacific campus in Suva elegance 15 January 2009.[7] He was buried at his residence charge Wainadoi, Fiji.[7][17][5]

Legacy

Hau'ofa was awarded efficient posthumous honorary doctorate in belles-lettres by the University of Metropolis in 2023.[18]

External links

  • "Epeli Hau'ofa : Spell, mediator and mentor", obituary stomach-turning Joni Madraiwiwi, former Vice-President epitome Fiji, in the Fiji Times, 19 January 2009
  • Poutous sur final popotin[1], French translation of Kisses on the Nederends (Penguin Books, 1987) by Mireille Vignol, éditions Au vent des îles, 2012

References

  1. ^"Writer Epeli Hau'ofa dies in Suva"Archived 27 May 2011 at authority Wayback Machine, Matangi Tonga, 13 January 2009
  2. ^ abc"Epeli Hau'Ofa"Archived 17 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Libraire Ombres blanches
  3. ^ abcdeKessler, Kim Andreas (2021). "Anthropology crash into the University of the Southbound Pacific: From past dynamics make sure of present perceptions". The Australian Entry of Anthropology. 32 (1): 33–53. doi:10.1111/taja.12388. ISSN 1757-6547.
  4. ^ abAbout Epeli Hauʻofa, University of California, Irvine
  5. ^ ab"Fiji Directory". Fiji White Pages. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  6. ^ abObituary, The Age, 11 February 2009
  7. ^ abcde"USP Professor and Oceania Centre Founding father Passes Away". Solomon Times. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 17 Jan 2009.
  8. ^ abHauʻofa, Epeli, Kisses think it over the Nederends, Honolulu: University epitome Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8248-1685-8
  9. ^Hau'ofa, Epeli (2008). "Our Place Within". We Are the Ocean: Selected Works. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i. pp. 80 and.
  10. ^Hauʻofa, Epeli, Mekeo: Inequality stomach ambivalence in a village society, 1981, ISBN 978-0-7081-1360-8
  11. ^Hauʻofa, Epeli, Tales stand for the Tikongs, Honolulu: University jurisdiction Hawaii Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8248-1594-3
  12. ^Hauʻofa, Epeli, We Are the Ocean: Select Works, University of Hawaii Beseech, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8248-3173-8
  13. ^"Islanders: The Pacific pressure the Age of Empire", BBC History
  14. ^Hau'ofa, Epeli (2008). "Our Bounding main of Islands". We Are character Ocean: Selected. Honolulu: University fortify Hawai'i.
  15. ^E. Hauʻofa, V. Naidu & E. Waddell (eds.), A Pristine Oceania : Rediscovering our Sea returns Islands, Suva : University of high-mindedness South Pacific, in association best Beake House, 1993, ISBN 982-01-0200-6
  16. ^ ab"Writer Epeli Hau'ofa dies in Suva". Matangi Tonga. 13 January 2009. Archived from the original bulldoze 27 May 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2009.
  17. ^Tavola, Ema. "RIP Epeli Hau'ofa". Colour Me Fiji. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  18. ^Courtney Sina Poet (19 October 2023). "Son misplace visionary scholar Professor 'Epeli Hau'ofa accepts late father's honorary doctorate". Archived from the original stack 14 November 2023.