Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

I blog at Reading the Maps, write essays and books about British Marxists, Tongan artists, and Kiwi publicans, and was converted to twitter by Giovanni Tiso.

Auckland/Nuku'alofa
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  1. 8 hours ago

    What happens when an archaeologist digs up an ancient godhouse on an island of fervent converts to the cross?

    1 retweet 3 likes
  2. 21 hours ago

    'From the air the island is like a wide-brimmed hat that has lost its crown' - Garth Rogers on Niuafo'ou, c. 1967

    2:24 AM - 27 May 2016 · Details
  3. 22 hours ago

    My son's been playing w/ a boomerang, & I've been thinking abt an enigmatic discovery at Muriwai beach 9 decades ago

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  4. May 26

    It's 1931, & Rilke is a hot item at Auckland's public library:

  5. May 26

    Haidy Geismar on The Stone Men of Malekula, an ethnographic classic bootlegged, mashed up & nativised by ni-Vans:

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  6. May 25

    Think those theories about a pre-Maori civilisation in NZ couldn't get any sillier? Think again...

    3 retweets 4 likes
  7. May 25

    There's an old idea in Hookland that glass holds memory, traps ghosts. At least till broken.- Thomas Espin, 1889

    1:48 PM - 25 May 2016 · Details
    15 retweets 30 likes
  8. May 24

    Tuvalu, 1976. The camera belonged to Judith Huntsman; the poster was left behind by GIs.

    6:32 PM - 24 May 2016 · Details
    1 retweet 4 likes
  9. May 24

    'The druid ended the talk with a brilliant line: “Excuse me, but I can sense that someone is trying to get through to me on the phone".'

  10. May 24

    trump has done more in one year to prove that words have no meaning than derrida and the deconstructionists could do in a lifetime

    324 retweets 603 likes
  11. May 23

    Corroboree, Northern Territory, c. 1942

    4:39 PM - 23 May 2016 · Details
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  12. May 23

    'Okondin Abaloa Palament': a signboard on Bougainville explains the cosmology of King Tore's 666 Movement

    4:34 PM - 23 May 2016 · Details
  13. May 21

    'The land colonises us. That is the way of things.' - C.L. Nolan

    2:07 AM - 21 May 2016 · Details
    17 retweets 31 likes
  14. May 20

    Moriori and NZ history: four myths

    7:52 AM - 20 May 2016 · Details
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  15. May 20

    Not only redneck Pakeha are confused abt Moriori. In this fb thread Louise Heremia offers assimilationist fantasy:

  16. May 19

    The fb thread beneath this item shows why we need a public ed campaign to coincide w/ a Moriori Treaty settlement:

  17. May 19

    Exciting news. What's needed is not only a full settlement but an extensive public education campaign.

    Moriori descendants seek Treaty claim for 19th Century atrocities
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  18. May 19

    'I went to see the queen but I did not go to London': Rawlinson discovers Tonga's th 'hub of the universe' in '35: --

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  19. May 18

    Krystal Lake is a legend only at the ripe age of 22.

    Staten Island Home Depot staffer wears "America Was Never Great" hat
    2 retweets 5 likes
  20. May 18

    Towards an explication of Tongan avant-gardist Tevita Latu's Pigs Sacrificed in the Name of Christ:

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  21. May 18

    Tevita Latu's masterpiece Pigs Sacrificed in the Name of Christ has been reproduced in the Texan art zine Fusion

    5:08 PM - 18 May 2016 · Details
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  22. May 14

    For award-winning Tongan artist Visesio Siasau, a visit to New York is a chance to encounter ancestral gods:

    1 retweet
  23. May 11

    Ten years ago this week: Tonga's revolutionary history In 2016, the fakalaka to democracy is not over

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  28. May 4

    Fascinating & sad similarities b/n the Weldon era at TV3 & Vanda Vitali's short & stormy tenure at Auck museum, cf

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  29. May 4

    And that's my hood 'alofa -by choice. Quiet but crazy and beautiful. 💜

    3:37 AM - 4 May 2016 · Details
    11 retweets 14 likes
  30. May 4

    That's my actual hood: my local falekoloa in Pahu after the rain, late at night.

    3:25 PM - 4 May 2016 · Details
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  31. May 4

    Time travelers from the future haven't come back to today's date for Trump, so we might be ok?

    70 retweets 136 likes
  32. May 3

    RIP P Reynolds, buried in Telekava b/s generations of missionaries, traders, beachcombers...

    3:58 PM - 3 May 2016 · Details
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  33. May 3

    Cubans killing JFK? Someone shld tell Trump that De Lillo's Libra is a novel, not reportage.

    3:08 PM - 3 May 2016 · Details
  34. May 1

    'The sun follows the moon, like the English translation of a Tongan poem' - Wallace Stevens

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  35. May 1

    Seeing it's May Day, here's work by Karl Holtz; an artist & Spartacist persecuted by the Nazis & the Soviets

    8:27 AM - 1 May 2016 · Details
    132 retweets 209 likes
  36. Apr 28

    Wicked Camper van art is ugly & banal. They shld take lessons in wit & beauty from Tonga's avant-garde Selaka Club.

    3:04 PM - 28 Apr 2016 · Details
    2 retweets 9 likes
  38. Apr 28

    Like Timor's ill-fated Alkatiri, PM Pohiva is sharply honest about what debt does to island nations' sovereignty:

  39. Apr 27

    Like DeLillo's Names and Tobias Hill's Hidden, Cold Earth is a fine novel about archaeologists gone mad & murderous

    8:44 PM - 27 Apr 2016 · Details
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  41. Apr 27

    Tongan radical 'Akilisi Pohiva is learning an old lesson: taking office is not the same as taking power

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  42. Apr 27

    Pro-democracy, pro-feminist Tongan artists' party makes national news: I'm lurking at the back of the shot...

  43. Apr 26

    The NZ National Front has surely provided us with the most bizarre response to Prince's death:

    5 retweets 1 like
  44. Apr 26

    Some of Tonga's avant-garde artists threw a party, & cops & bankers turned up:

    12:43 PM - 26 Apr 2016 · Details
  45. Apr 20

    Almost-full-moon kava in Brussels to night

    1:40 PM - 20 Apr 2016 · Details
    2 retweets 4 likes
  46. Apr 25

    Best book title of all time? Kirch is a master and a provocation, the Marx or Weber of Pacific archaeology.

    A SHARK GOING INLAND IS MY CHIEF - PATRICK VINTON KIRCH (HARDCOVER) NEW
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  47. Apr 25

    Paul Gauguin went on trial last week in a humid lecture room in Nuku'alofa:

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  48. Apr 24

    Les Cleveland collected some of the songs we never hear on Anzac Day:

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  50. Apr 24

    Hopkins-Weise's story of the genesis of Anzacs on the battlefields of NZ should be turned into a blockbusting film:

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