Hal Levine
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hal Levine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hal |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Paula Brown Glick
From time to time, readers and contributors to Oceania inquire whether we have published an obituary of a particular Oceanian scholar. Oceania does not routinely publish obituaries, but these enquiries reveal a desire to be reminded of or to have the chance to acknowledge an intellectual debt to a colleague. Consequently, short tributes to such scholars will appear as an occasional feature in Oceania. 'Paula Brown Glick: a Retrospective' is the f…
Status Rivalry and the Politics of Biculturalism in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand
Could it be that despite a huge literature spanning decades from many disciplines, a corpus of writing that examines seemingly every twist and turn of a complex situation, we still are missing something basic and fundamental to a proper understanding of contemporary cultural politics in Aotearoa New Zealand? A thing so obvious and omnipresent, that it was characterized long ago in the anthropological literature as the fundamental dynamic of Polyn…
Divergent paths, the pursuit of cultural recognition in Aotearoa New Zealand
Stimulated by a recent government ban on kosher slaughter (shechita), and a whale stranding involving Ngāti Toa near Wellington, the author compares the quests of Indigenous and minority groups for cultural rights in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Observing Māori and Jews navigating in the contexts of the Treaty of Waitangi and human rights legislation, this paper provides concrete ethnographic examples that highlight how such claims articulate with the…
Visiting Tieke Kāainga
Whanganui National Park is one of New Zealand's leading tourist attractions. Tieke Kainga (Tieke settlement) is a Department of Conservation camp site in the middle reaches of the river that was occupied in the mid‐1990s by members of Tamahaki an indigenous group who claim that the land was taken from them illegally. Although a modus vivendi currently exists whereby the Department and Maori group co manage the site, Tamahaki's struggle for exclus…
Some Reflections on Samoan Cultural Practice and Group Identity in Contemporary Wellington, New Zealand
The relationships between social and cultural transformation and identity change are subtle and complex. This paper reflects on trends in these relationships in the Samoan community in Wellington, New Zealand through an examination of the content of interviews about an important cultural practice (fa'alavelave). After discussing fa'alavelave and its importance to Samoan life four themes are presented that show how our informants perceive the inte…
Cultural Politics in New Zealand
Cultural Politics in New Zealand
Some Reflections on Samoan Cultural Practice and Group Identity in Contemporary Wellington, New Zealand
The relationships between social and cultural transformation and identity change are subtle and complex. This paper reflects on trends in these relationships in the Samoan community in Wellington, New Zealand through an examination of the content of interviews about an important cultural practice (fa'alavelave). After discussing fa'alavelave and its importance to Samoan life four themes are presented that show how our informants perceive the inte…
Visiting Tieke Kāainga
Whanganui National Park is one of New Zealand's leading tourist attractions. Tieke Kainga (Tieke settlement) is a Department of Conservation camp site in the middle reaches of the river that was occupied in the mid‐1990s by members of Tamahaki an indigenous group who claim that the land was taken from them illegally. Although a modus vivendi currently exists whereby the Department and Maori group co manage the site, Tamahaki's struggle for exclus…
Status Rivalry and the Politics of Biculturalism in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand
Could it be that despite a huge literature spanning decades from many disciplines, a corpus of writing that examines seemingly every twist and turn of a complex situation, we still are missing something basic and fundamental to a proper understanding of contemporary cultural politics in Aotearoa New Zealand? A thing so obvious and omnipresent, that it was characterized long ago in the anthropological literature as the fundamental dynamic of Polyn…
Divergent paths, the pursuit of cultural recognition in Aotearoa New Zealand
Stimulated by a recent government ban on kosher slaughter (shechita), and a whale stranding involving Ngāti Toa near Wellington, the author compares the quests of Indigenous and minority groups for cultural rights in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Observing Māori and Jews navigating in the contexts of the Treaty of Waitangi and human rights legislation, this paper provides concrete ethnographic examples that highlight how such claims articulate with the…
Paula Brown Glick
From time to time, readers and contributors to Oceania inquire whether we have published an obituary of a particular Oceanian scholar. Oceania does not routinely publish obituaries, but these enquiries reveal a desire to be reminded of or to have the chance to acknowledge an intellectual debt to a colleague. Consequently, short tributes to such scholars will appear as an occasional feature in Oceania. 'Paula Brown Glick: a Retrospective' is the f…
Sociology (5 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Aotearoa (2 works)