TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Valedictory lecture by professor Henri J.M. Claessen, by Toon van Meijl
• Wishful thinking in Aboriginal studies: A not-so-nice but very historical perspective on the relation between 'Arrernte Law' and 'Catholic Law', by Jolien Harmsen
• More than just wishful thinking: the survival of Arrernte worldview is historical fact, not romantic fictions, by David Wilkins
• Report of workshop on New Guinea 'as a field of anthropological study', by Jan van Nieuwenhuijsen
• The archival heritage of the Dutch Franciscans in Irian Jaya, by Peter Jan Margry
• Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, by Adrian Cunningham
• European Society for Oceanists, by Jürg Wassmann
• Basel Conference of the European Society for Oceanists - a personal report, by Ton Otto
• Basel Conference of the European Society for Oceanists
• Communications
• Publications Received
• Books
• Recent Publications on Oceania