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Sweat and Salt Water
On 21 March 2017, Associate Professor Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa passed away at the age of forty-eight. News of Teaiwa's death precipitated an extraordinary outpouring of grief …
My Gun, My Brother
Despite the heated competition for colonial possessions in Papua New Guinea during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the personnel required to run an effective administration were …
Colonial Dis-ease
A variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions - sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex - resulted from the U.S. navy's introduction of Western health and …
The First Taint of Civilization
"Hezel writes clearly and with erudition and commands an impressive body of information. His book is a tour de force.... Not only will it be read eagerly by Pacific scholars, but …
God Is Samoan
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological …
Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaitan ""Kastom
This book is a political history of the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1927, when the last violent resistance to colonial rule was crushed, to …
Law and Order in a Weak State
Twenty-five years after independence, Papa New Guinea is beset by social, economic, and political problems: poverty and inequality, and corruption and rising crime, for example. …
The Other Side
The Other Side is the first major ethnographic and historical study of the Sia Raga people of north Pentecost Island, a region that was home to the late Father Walter Lini, …
The Guardians of Marovo Lagoon
In Hviding's case, the gap between the social and natural sciences is bridged as he deftly draws on conceptual frameworks from social and cultural anthropology, cultural ecology, …
Strangers in Their Own Land
This is a summary of colonial rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands.
Jean-Marie Tjibaou, Kanak Witness to the World
Jean-Marie Tjibaou is arguably the most important post-World War II Oceanic leader. His intellectual abilities, acute understanding of both Melanesian and European civilizations, …
Cultures of Commemoration
Winner of the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial PrizeIn 1941 the Japanese military attacked the US naval base Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu. Although much has been debated …