This volume explores cultural, social and economic connections between the Americas and the South Pacific. By approaching the Transpacific Americas as an assemblage or relational space, the book complicates the Euro-American distinction between "centre" and "rim," and provides a comprehensive understanding of recent dynamics and shifting relations across the Pacific.

Transpacific Americas as Relational Space Philipp Schorch and Eveline Dürr Part 1: Assembling Transpacific Networks and Relations 1. Historicising the "Indigenous International": Museums, Anthropology, and Transpacific Networks Conal McCarthy 2. Performing Transpacific Identities: The Role of Music and Musicians in Interactions Between Easter Island and Chile Dan Bendrups 3. Shadowed Lives: Invisibility and Visibility of Mexicans in Hawai'i Monisha Das Gupta 4. Border Crossings and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Touring Exhibition: An Aotearoa New Zealand - Mexico Exchange Lee Davidson Part 2: Assembling Transpacific Concepts and Ideas 5. Transpacific Discourses of Primitivism and Extinction on "Fuegians" and "Tasmanians" in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fernanda Peñaloza 6. Re-assembling Language in Nests: Transpacific Indigenous Strategies for Cultural Revitalisation in Aotearoa New Zealand and Mexico Eveline Dürr 7. Disjunctive Policy Assemblages: The New Zealand Model of Welfare Reform in Alberta, Canada Catherine Kingfisher 8. Tangled up in Food: The Moral Economy of Food Politics in the Transpacific Region Alan Smart and Josephine Smart Taualuga: Decolonising and Globalising the Pacific Vilsoni Hereniko