[Linganth] New book: New Mana

[Matt Tomlinson]

Dear all,

Ty P. Kāwika Tengan and I are happy to announce that the edited volume New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific Languages and Cultures has just been published by ANU Press. The website for the book is http://press.anu.edu.au/titles/monographs-in-anthropology/new-mana/

Like all ANU Press books, it is available online for free download, in whole or by chapter.

The authors and chapters are:

Introduction: Mana Anew – Matt Tomlinson and Ty P. Kāwika Tengan

1. Mana Hawaiʻi: An Examination of Political Uses of the Word Mana in Hawaiian – Noenoe K. Silva

2. The Mana of Kū: Indigenous Nationhood, Masculinity and Authority in Hawai‘i – Ty P. Kāwika Tengan

3. Bodies Permeable and Divine: Tapu, Mana and the Embodiment of Hegemony in Pre Christian Tonga – Andy Mills

4. Niu Mana, Sport, Media and the Australian Diaspora – Katerina Martina Teaiwa

5. Mana, Power and ‘Pawa’ in the Pacific and Beyond – Alan Rumsey

6. Mana on the Move: Why Empirical Anchorage Trumps Philosophical Drift – Thorgeir Kolshus

7. ‘Press the Button, Mama!’ Mana and Christianity on Makira, Solomon Islands – Aram Oroi

8. The State of Mana, the Mana of the State – Alexander Mawyer

9. Theologies of Mana and Sau in Fiji – Matt Tomlinson and Sekove Bigitibau

10. Claiming Pule, Manifesting Mana: Ordinary Ethics and Pentecostal Self-making in Samoa – Jessica Hardin

11. Mana for a New Age – Rachel Morgain

12. How Mana Left the Pacific and Became a Video Game Mechanic – Alex Golub and Jon Peterson

Afterword: Shape-Shifting Mana: Travels in Space and Time – Niko Besnier and Margaret Jolly

The book is the result of a several-years-long project that has included a conference at the Australian National University, a double session at the AAA meetings, and many discussions in many venues. We hope that that volume's breadth will appeal to scholars in anthropology, linguistics, history, and Pacific Studies especially.

With best regards, and apologies for cross-posting,
Matt Tomlinson and Ty P. Kāwika Tengan

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Matt Tomlinson
Anthropology/CHL
Australian National University
https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/tomlinson-ma