title: Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History
author: Robert Borofsky
description: Robert Borofsky is professor of anthropology at Hawaii Pacific University.
zlib_text: # Endorsements
  
  FOR NEW OPEN ACCESS EDITION OF  
  _Remembrance of Pacific Pasts_
  
  Remembrance of Pacific Pasts’ new open access edition is a liberating read. It
  serves as a powerful platform for decolonising hegemonic scripts of Pacific
  pasts through the incorporation of both western and indigenous pacific
  scholars interpretations. The Longue durée outlined in Rememberances helps us
  to excavate the ‘middle ground’ as the current indigenising of historical and
  economic forces of modernisation and development, and in so doing liberates
  the indigenous agency in the shaping of Pacific futures. Malo lava!
  
  Melani Anae, qso
  
  _School of Māori Studies and Pacific Studies, Te Wānanga o Waipapa, University
  of Auckland_
  
  This new open access edition reaffirms why Remembrance of Pacific Pasts
  continues to provide an essential platform from which to launch a multi-vocal,
  critical and engaged Pacific history. The range of authors, the breadth of
  their interests, and the fluency of their writing refle