PHOTOESSAY: Visual peregrinations in the realm of kava
Abstract
Photoessay: The author has been documenting the use of kava in different parts of the Pacific for several years, particularly in Tonga and in Auckland where its use is popular among members of communities that consume kava as part of their cultural tradition, and more recently a growing non-traditional user group. In this article, he reflects on his project to document the use of kava through photographs, the evolution of its use in traditional and non-traditional settings and discusses the most recent scientific studies of the drink.
Downloads
Metrics
References
Aporosa, S. A. (2015). The new kava user: Diasporic identity formation in reverse. New Zealand Sociology, 30(4), 58–77.
Aporosa, S.A. (2021). Improving road safety and health: Understanding kava’s impact on driver fitness. In Health Research Council of New Zealand (Issue July 31).
Aporosa, S A. (2019). De-mythologizing and re-branding of kava as the new ‘world drug’ of choice. Drug Science, Policy and Law, 5, 205032451987613. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050324519876131 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2050324519876131
Aporosa, S. A., Atkins, M., & Leov, J. N. (2021). Decolonising quantitative methods within a Pacific research space to explore cognitive effects following kava use. Pacific Dynamics, 5(1). http://pacificdynamics.nz
Aporosa, S. A., & Forde, J. (2019). Māori and kava : New drug fashion or re-engagement with ‘kawa’? Pacific Dynamics, 3(1). http://pacificdynamics.nz
Biodiversity for sale. Dismantling the hype about benefit sharing. (2000). Global Trade and Biodiversity in Conflict, 4 (April).
Fehoko, E. (2015). Social space and cultural identity: The faikava as a supplementary site for maintaining Tongan identity in New Zealand. New Zealand Sociology, 30(1), 131–139.
Heaton, T. (2021, August 29). Kava: The Pacific’s economic ‘diamond’ Is being coveted by competitors. Honolulu Civil Beat. https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/08/kava-the-pacifics-economic-diamond-is-being-coveted-by-competitors/
Henry, T., & Aporosa, A. (2021). The virtual faikava: Maintaining vā and creating online learning spaces during COVID-19. Waikato Journal of Education, 26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15663/wje.v26i1.775
Industry Focus: Kava, the green gold of the Pacific. (2021). In Pacific Trade Invest Australia. https://pacifictradeinvest.com/explore-our-work/insights/industry-focus-kava-the-green-gold-of-the-pacific?fbclid=IwAR2G3wECu_TM1VT8-lVczVeaa6cJc8KLcxZ5zYC6KTRJxSx6ii9Ua1QlCE8
Kava pilot program. (2021). In Pacific Trade Invest Australia.
Lebot, V., Merlin, M., & Lindstrom, L. (1992). Kava: The Pacific drug. Newhaven, CT: Yale University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt211qwxb.1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt211qwxb
Lemert, E. M. (1967). Secular use of kava in Tonga. Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 28(2), 55–57. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15288/qjsa.1967.28.328
Pollock, N. (2009). Sustainability of the kava trade. The Contemporary Pacific, 21(2), 267–299. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.0.0070
Tecun, A. (2019). Rootz vaka transits: Traversing seas of urban diasporic indigeneity by collapsing time and space with songs and stories of the kava canoe (Vol. 2019). Auckland, NZ: The University of Auckland.
Tecun, A., Reeves, R., & Wolfgram, M. (2020). The past before us: A brief history of Tongan Kava. The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 129(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15286/jps.129.2.171-192
Tecun, A., & Siu’ulua, A. (2020). Mormon masculinity, family, and kava in the Pacific. The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender, 449–463. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351181600-35 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351181600-35
Copyright (c) 2022 Todd Henry
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
