Table of contents : Contents Foreword Preface Part I: Rethinking Anthropology and Pacific Islanders The New South Pacific Society: Integration and Independence Part II. Reflecting Our Sea of Islands The Ocean in Us Pasts to Remember Our Place Within: Foundations for a Creative Oceania Part III. Creating The Writer as an Outsider The Glorious Pacific Way The Tuktuks (Excerpt from Kisses in the Nederends) Oilei and Babu (Excerpt from Kisses in the Nederends) Epeli Hau‘ofa Interviewed by Subramani Part IV. Revisiting Thy Kingdom Come: The Democratisation of Aristocratic Tonga His Majesty King Täufa‘ähau Tupou IV: An Appreciation Blood in the Kava Bowl Index About the Author