"Cet ouvrage rassemble des communications nous introduisant à l'histoire, la linguistique, l'archéologie et l'économie océaniennes. Les textes réunis dans ce volume d'introduction voudraient fournir des clés de compréhension aux transformations des sociétés du Pacifique. Textes de: Alban Bensa, Gilles Blanchet, Jean-Michel Charpentier, Jean Chesneaux, Daniel Frimigacci, Isabelle Merle, Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre, Gerard Ward."

 
Care, Jennifer Corrin, Tess Newton and Don Paterson 1999. Introduction to South Pacific Law. London: Cavendish Publishing.

"This book provides an overview of the law of 11 of the member countries of the University of the South Pacific region: Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It aims to provide students, academics and practitioners from both within and outside the region with an introduction to South Pacific law, legal systems and jurisprudence. The text provides an overview of the origins and development of law and legal systems of the region and looks at both introduced and local laws in operation, including customary law. The text also covers public and private law in force and highlights the distinguishing features of the substantive law in force in the South Pacific. The hierarchy of the courts and both civil and criminal procedure in the region are also covered. The book includes a glossary of relevant legal terms."

 
Craig, Barry, Bernie Kernot and Christopher Anderson (eds). 1999. Art and Performance in Oceania. Bathurst, NSW: Crawford House; Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press; London: Hurst.

"Twenty-four papers from the 5th International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association deal with: 'Production and Performance', 'Social and cultural Context, The Record and the Remainder', and 'The Mission and Museums'" (Source: ASAO Newsletter 105).

 
Forster, George. 1999. A Voyage Round the World. Edited by Nicholas Thomas and Oliver Berghof. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 920 pages, 50 illustrations, 6 maps. ISBN: 0-8248-2091-6 (cloth).

"This new scholarly edition makes this important book readily available for the first time since its initial publication more than two centuries ago. The valuable introduction and annotations draw on the wide range of anthropological and ethnohistorical scholarship published since the 1960s and contextualize the book in relation to both the cultures of Oceania documented by the Forsters and the history of European voyaging in the Pacific. Appendixes include a translation of the introduction to the German edition and the polemical pamphlets by George Forster and the ship's astronomer William Wales, in which some of the book's more controversial claims were debated."

 
Meijl, Toon van and Franz von Benda-Beckmann (eds). 1999. Property Rights and Economic Development: Land and Natural Resources in Southeast Asia and Oceania. London and New York: Kegan Paul International. 295 pages.

"This book provides a critical analysis of the widespread assumption that the formalisation and standardisation of property rights through state legislation has a positive impact on economic development. It is based on anthropological case-studies of land and natural resources rights in Southeast Asia and Oceania. These suggest that the economic impact of the formalisation of property rights is not necessarily positive, certainly not for all categories of peoples. They also suggest that state reforms of property rights do not necessarily eliminate the conditions of legal pluralism, but rather add new legal structures to an already complex constellation of rights and duties."

 
Nordyke, Eleanor C. 1999. Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook's Third Voyage. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 176 pages, 2 maps, 62 illustrations. ISBN: 0-945048-04-1 (cloth).

"This volume combines pictorial and selected textual descriptions from the voyage, 1776-1780, to give the contemporary reader a fresh perspective on the remarkable findings of some of Cook's voyagers, who were among the first Europeans to open this region to the Western world. Eleanor C. Nordyke is a population specialist and author of The Peopling of Hawai'i."

 
Overton, John and Regina Scheyvens (eds). 1999. Strategies for Sustainable Development - Experiences from the Pacific. London: Zed Books. ISBN: 1 85649 641 4 (hardback) and 1 85649 642 2 (paperback).

"This book shows how the environments and cultures of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia need to be taken careful account of in fashioning sustainable development projects and strategies. Five carefully chosen research reports from different countries illustrate the damage which orthodox development can do to particular natural resources, including logging, mining, fishing and agriculture. A series of more optimistic case studies point to sustainable alternatives around agriculture, forestry, tourism and in the urban sector."

 
Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern. 2000. Identity Work: Constructing Pacific Lives. Ithaka, NY: University of Pittsburgh Press. ASAO Monograph Series, Nr 18. ISBN: 0-8229-4115-5 (cloth) and 0-8229-5716-7.

"Introduction: Narratives Speak, by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern; "Some Peoples, If You Marry, You Marry to Everybody": A Tongan Life Story, by Barbara Burns McGrath; Fragmented Selfhood: Contradiction, Anomaly, and Violence in Female Life Histories, by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern; Life History and Female Initiation: A Case Study from Irian Jaya, by Louise Thoonen; Further Twists of the Rope: Ongka and Ru in a Transforming World, by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart; Knowledge Makes the Man: Matiu Mareikura, a Contemporary Maori Ritual Specialist, by Karen Sinclair; Where Resistance Falls Short: Rethinking Agency Through Biography Richard Scaglion and Marie Norman; Outlaw Memories: Biography and the Construction of Meaning in Postcolonial Vanuatu, by William Rodman; Carolinian History and the Story of a Chief: The Case of the Damaged Utt, by Juliana Flinn; Afterword: Lives and Histories, by Geoffrey M. White."

"The word 'balayi' means 'lookout' or 'beware' in Nyungar, an Aboriginal language from Western Australia: it is the first word of the name of a new journal. Contributions of the first volume include: 'Enacted in the destiny of sedentary peoples': Racism, Discovery and the Grounds of Law, by Peter Fitzpatrick; 'Mothering the Other': Feminism, Colonialism and the Experiences of Non-Aboriginal Adoptive Mothers of Aboriginal Children, by Denise Cuthbert; Colonialism and the Moral Philosophers, by John Ladd; Developing a Regime to Protect Indigenous Traditional Biodiversity, by Henrietta Fourmile-Marrie. For more information and subscription please contact: Dr Helena Grehan, School of Arts, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch WA 6150, Australia; e-mail: h_grehan@central.murdoch.edu.au".

 
Bowe, Heather and Stephen Morey. 1999. The Yorta Yorta (Bangerang) Language of the Murray Goulburn Including Yabula Yabula. C-154. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

"This work on Yorta Yorta was begun in response to an invitation by Yorta Yorta woman Lois Peeler to review the available written material on Yorta Yorta to complement the Yorta Yorta language knowledge of her mother, Mrs Geraldine Briggs, O.A., and to compile a resource book on Yorta Yorta for language revival purposes."

 
Eickelkamp, Ute. 1999. Don't Ask for Stories: Women and Art from Ernabella and their Art. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. 88 pages.

"This collection of histories, in both written and illustrative form tells the story from 'first missionary coming', atomic bomb tests in 1950 to commercial success in the 1990's. The beautiful batiks from Ernabella are exhibited throughout the world and the artists are sought after as teachers in Australia and internationally."

 
Hercus, L.A. 1999. A Grammar of the Wirangu Language from the West Coast of South Australia. C-150. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

"This book contains a grammar and vocabulary of an endangered language, the Wirangu language of the west coast of South Australia. The work discusses similarities between Wirangu and other South Australian Aboriginal languages."

 
Love, J.R.B. 1999. The Grammatical Structure of the Worora Language from North-Western Australia. München: Lincom Europa. Edited by R.M.W. Dixon. Lincom Studies in Australian Languages, Nr 04. 100 pages.

"This detailed grammar of Worora was written in 1932 by Rev. J.R.B. Love, a pioneer missionary in the rugged Kimberley country of north Western Australia and has never before been published. Worora is a polysynthetic language with overarching concord, reminiscent of that in Bantu languages."

 
Moisseeff, Marika. 1999. An Aboriginal Village in South Australia: A Snapshot of Davenport. Canberra: Australian Studies Press. 236 pages.

"This book will be of interest not only to specialists in Aboriginal Affairs, but to all Australians wishing to acquire a concrete understanding of what is entailed in being an Aborignal person today. During the course of her Research Fellowship, studying issues facing Aboriginal youth Marika Moisseeff was urged to undertake a statistical survey of the Davenport Community. The result is this book. The subjects covered include patterns of income and expenditure, household composition and residential mobility, education and training, health problems, leisure activities and attitudes towards the participation of non-Aboriginal Australians in various domains of community life."

 
Read, Jolly and Peter Coppin. 1999. Kangkushot: The Life of Nyamal Lawman Peter Coppin. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. 200 pages.

"A powerful and moving history in which Peter Coppin, or Kangkushot, remembers his life in Western Australia's Pilbara region, and his involvement in the first strike of Aboriginal workers in the nation's history in 1946."

Chapters: Le chef kanak: les modèles et l'histoire, Alban Bensa; Adoptions et transferts d'enfants dans la région de Ponérihouen, Isabelle Leblic; Terminologie de parenté proto-océanienne: continuité et changement dans les langues kanak, Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre; "L'os et le souffle": protocole et valeurs ultimes chez les Paimboas, Dominique Bretteville; Le droit maritime kanak et ses transformations, Marie-Hélène Teulières-Preston; La mémoire kanak de Nouméa, Dorothée Dussy; Les sociétés préeuropéennes de Nouvelle-Calédonie et leur transformation historique: l'apport de l'archeologie, Christophe Sand, Jacques Bole et André Ouetcho; Chronique meurtriere d'une mutation theologique, Maré (îles Loyaute), Charles Illouz; De l'idée de cantonnement et la constitution des réserves: la définition de la propriété indigène, Isabelle Merle; Tisser des liens politiques: mobilisation électorale et vote mélanesien (1946-1958), Eric Soriano; Histoire et mémoire d'une institution coloniale: la scolarisation des Kanak au temps de l'indigénat, Marie Pineau-Salaün; Enquête linguistique et enjeux culturels, Isabelle Bril; Pluralisme médical en Lifou, Marie Lepoutre; Hommes et femmes: harmonie d'ensemble ou antagonisme sourd? Christine Salamon; Les gens de Nouméa: mutations et permanences en milieu urbain, Christine Hamelin; Partir a Nouméa: Remarques sur les migrants originaires de la région ajië, Michel Naepels."

 
Berry, Keith and Christine Berry. 1999. A Description of Abun: A West Papuan Language of Irian Jaya. B-115. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

"This volume presents a description of the phonology, morphology and grammar of the Abun language, spoken in the northern Bird's Head region of Irian Jaya. There is also a discussion of various clauses types, including relative, complement and adverbial clauses."

 
Dinnen, Sinclair and Allison Ley (eds). 2000. Reflections on Violence in Melanesia. Annandal, NSW and Canberra: Hawkins Press (Federation Press) and Asia Pacific Press. ISBN: 1876067136 (paperback). 350 pages.

Chapters: 1) Sinclair Dinnen, Violence and governance in Melanesia: an introduction; 2) Maev O'Collins, Images of violence in Papua New Guinea: whose images? whose reality?; 3) Christine Weir, 'The Gospel came...fighting is ceasing among us': Methodist representations of violence in Fiji and New Britain, 1830-1930; 4) Bronwen Douglas, Fighting as savagery and romance: New Caledonia past and present; 5) Alaine Chanter, The production of social disorder: the example of the daily press in New Caledonia; 6) Cyndi Banks, Contextualising sexual violence: rape and carnal knowledge in Papua New Guinea; 7) Anou Borrey, Sexual violence in perspective: the case of Papua New Guinea; 8) Merrin Mason, Domestic violence in Vanuatu; 9) Alan Rumsey, Women as peacemakers - a case from the Nebilyer Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea; s and domestic violence; 10) Sarah Garup, Struggles of women and girls -- Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea; 11) Afu Billy, Breaking the silence, speaking out truths: domestic violence in Solomon Islands; 12) Christina Ramosaea, The Family Support Centre, Solomon Islands; 13) Maxine Anjiga Makail, Domestic violence in Port Moresby; 14) Jean Mitchell, Violence as continuity: violence as rupture - narratives from an urban settlement in Vanuatu; 15) Michael Monsell-Davis, Social change, contradictions, youth and violence in Fiji; 16) Michael Ward, Fighting for ples in the city: young Highlands men in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; 17) Michael Goddard, Three urban village courts in Papua New Guinea: some comparative observations on dispute settlement; 18) Glenn Banks, Razor wire and riots: violence and the mining industry in Papua New Guinea; 19) Karl Claxton, Violence, internal security and security stakeholders in Papua New Guinea; 20) Otto Ondawame, Indonesian state terrorism: the case of West Papua; 21) Anthony J. Regan, 'Traditional' leaders and conflict resolution in Bougainville: reforming the present by re-writing the past? Epilogue: Margaret Jolly, Further reflections on violence in Melanesia.

 
Donohue, Mark. 1999. Warembori. München: Lincom Europa. Languages of the World/Materials, Nr 341. 100 pages.

"Warembori is a language spoken by 600-700 people living in river mouths on the north coast of the island of New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya. It has not been previously described in any grammatical detail."

 
Filer, Colin, Susanne Bonnell and Glenn Banks. 1999. Dilemmas of Development: Economic Impact of the Porgera Gold Mine 1989-1994. Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, ANU.

"The Porgera gold mine is technically one of the most sophisticated and successful mines of recent times. In its second year of operation (1992) it was the third largest gold producing mine in the world. Socially, though, the mine has brought a range of massive changes for the local Ipili community -both positive and many negative. Dilemmas of Development is a record of a series of studies of the social and economic effects of the Porgera mine, commissioned by the Porgera Joint Venture (PJV). The principal authors are Susanne Bonnell and Glen Banks. Two of the chapters were commissioned from Aletta Biersack and John Burton who have studied the social impact of the mine, and were asked to provide their own comments on the design, management and output of the Porgera Social monitoring Programme. This book provides a snapshot of the huge dislocations and transformations that the community experienced as mining operations were established at Porgera."

 
Gonsalves, R.A. 1999. Mr. Gonsalves Memoires. Amsterdam: Arbeiderspers. 350 pages.

"Zijn bijnamen spreken tot de verbeelding: Gunsalvo, Godzelves. Na bijna veertig jaar hardnekkig stilzwijgen vertelt mr. Rolph Gonsalves (1932) in deze memoires openhartig over zijn geruchtmakende jaren als bestuursambtenaar in Nederlands Nieuw Guinea en als topmagistraat van het openbaar ministerie. Na zijn rechtenstudie voerden roeping en avonturendrang Gonsalves naar wat restte van het koloniale rijk in de Oost. In de Baliemvallei, waar de bevolking nog in het stenen tijdperk leefde, maakte hij met harde hand een eind aan tal van stammenoorlogen. Eenmaal op verlof stak er een storm van protest op tegen zijn vermeende gruweldaden in 'De verloren vallei'. Onderzoek leidde evenwel tot eerherstel. Terug in Nederland trad Gonsalves toe tot het openbaar ministerie om op boevenjacht te gaan."

 
Reesink, Ger P. 1999. A Grammar of Hatam, Indonesia. C-146. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

"This volume presents a description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of Hatam, which is spoken on the Bird's Head Peninsula of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Hatam is a Papuan language with a basic SVO order, and many verb sequences. Phonological features include initial geminates and an utterance-level stress pattern. The book contains a number of annotated text."

 
Shineberg, Dorothy. 1999. The People Trade: Pacific Island Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Pacific Island Monograph Series 16. 309 pages, 36 ill. ISBN 0-8248-2177-7.

"The story of the people from the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and the Solomon Islands who left their homes to work in the French colony of New Caledonia has long remained a missing piece of Pacific Islands history. Now Dorothy Shineberg has brought these laborers to life by painstakingly assembling fragments from a wide variety of scattered records and documents. She tells the story of their recruitment, then sketches the workers' lives in New Caledonia, describing the contractual arrangements, the kinds of work they did, their living conditions, how they spent their free time, the large numbers who sickened and died, and the choice at the end of the contract to remain in the colony as free workers or to return home." (This book was listed in Oceania Newsletter 22, but with the wrong year of publication.)

 
Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern (eds). 2000. Millennial Countdown in New Guinea. Ethnohistory, 47(1). Special issue.

Table of Contents: Introduction: Latencies and Realizations in Millennial Practices, by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern; The Return of the Kingdom: Agama and the Millennium among the Imyan of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, by Jaap Timmer; Tying the Time String Together: An End-of-Time Experience in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, by Dianne van Oosterhout; Afek's Last Son: Integrating Change in a Papua New Guinean Cosmology, by Lorenzo Brutti; The Millennium, not the Cargo? by Jan Bieniek and Garry W. Trompf; Confusion, Native Scepticism, and Recurring Questions about the Year 2000: 'Soft' Beliefs and Preparations for the Millennium in the Arapesh Region, Papua New Guinea, by Ira Bashkow; Signs of the Second Coming: On Eschatological Expectations and Disappointments in Highlands and Seaboard Papua New Guinea, by Holger Jebens; The Fire Next Time: The Conversion of the Huli Apocalypse, by Chris Ballard; Afterword: Zero Hour: Reflecting Backward, Looking Forward" by Richard Scaglion.

 
Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. Stewart. 1999. Collaborations and Conflicts: A Leader Through Time. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College Publishers.

"This is a uniquely dramatic account of life in the Papua New Guinea Highlands as told by a well-known leader of the Kawelka people of Mount Hagen. Set into context with a contemporary introduction that discusses the usefulness of biography in anthropology, the case study presents the already well-known autobiography of Ongka, a leader who witnessed the arrival of the first outsiders to the Highlands of New Guinea in the 1930s. By using a life history approach, this ethnographic account serves as a lens through which the student of anthropology will see the wider processes of conflict and change brought to the Kawelka people through contact with the outside world. Capitalizing on the growing awareness of the importance of writing history from an anthropological viewpoint, the book packages Ongka's account in a way that facilitates its use in the teaching of experiential anthropology. The voices of other Kawelka people, including one of Ongka's married daughters, adds new dimensions to the already rich account."

 
Strathern, Andrew and Pamela J. 2000. Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. ISBN: 0-87338-661-2 (paper). 224 pages.

"Arrow Talk makes a significant contribution to the understanding of Melanesian culture and contemporary sociopolitical issues in Papua New Guinea. In a postmodern era in which culture has been dismissed by many anthropologists as a reification, this book makes a cogent argument for cultural holism by showing how symbolic, psychological, religious, and linguistic factors have combined to shape Melpa responses to the political and economic crises they have had to face in the waning years of the millennium. This analysis also contributes notably to the development of anthropological perspectives on colonial and postcolonial historical processes. Since the Melpa face many of the same challenges as other "modernizing" people in the Pacific and elsewhere, Strathern and Stewart's insights are valuable for scholars working on similar problems in a variety of ethnographic regions."

"A central theme of this important book is how a revolutionary taking of power by one people over another may be partly legitimated. Wrongs done to those who suffered the take-over must then be redressed with due allowance for new rights and interests that have resulted from it. Waitangi and Indigenous Rights is developed extensively from the author's earlier writings on law and revolution and on Waitangi matters and indigenous rights. It aims to advance and to widen current debate, in part by the criticism it offers of the views of some prominent participants."

 
Hammatt, Charles H. 2000. Ships, Furs and Sandelwood: A Yankee Trader in Hawai'i, 1823-1825. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN: 0-8248-2193-9 (cloth) and 0-8248-2258-7 (paper). 144 pages.

"Hammatt's personal and business dealings brought him into close contact with as wide range of people, from the king, Liholiho (Kamehameha II), and his wary ministers to unscrupulous harbor merchants and sea captains and other 'Yankee rogues'. From time to time Hammatt also found himself among polite missionary society. Hammatt diligently recorded his encounters and observations in his journal, which is published here for the first time."

 
Ito, Karen. 1999. Lady Friends: Hawaiian Ways and Ties that Define. Ithaka: Cornell University Press. ISBN: 0-8014-2636-7 (cloth) and 0-8014-9939-9 (paper).

"Ito conducted intensive fieldwork with six Honolulu families, all of which shared the distinguishing characteristics of Hawaii's matrifocal society. In her close examination of the friendships and family relations among the women in these households, she focuses on the significance of a traditional manner of speech known as "talk story" which they use when conversing together. She describes how her subjects employ metaphoric language to address issues concerning responsibility, retribution, understandings of self and personhood, and methods for conflict resolution."

 
Lange, Raeburn. 1999. May the People Live: A History of Maori Health Development 1900-1918. Auckland: Auckland University Press. 370 pages. ISBN: 1 86940 214 6 (paperback).

"A century ago Maori were considered a 'dying race', doomed to extinction. Maori themselves reversed this decline through imaginative and wide-ranging action taken from 1900 to 1918. May the People Live tells this story, concentrating on the enormous contributions of the 'Young Maori Party' reformers Maui Pomare, Peter Buck and Apirana Ngata, the early Maori nurses and the Maori Councils. Lange emphasises throughout the conduct and impact of the reforms at the grassroots level. May the People Live is the first substantive study of this topic. It also includes a brief survey of traditional Maori medicine, the Maori holistic view of bodily and spiritual wellbeing, and the course of Maori health after European contact."

 
Linkels, Ad and Lucia Linkels. 2000. Hula, Haka, Hoko! An Introduction to Polynesian Dancing. Tilburg, Netherlands: Mundo Ethnico. 188 pages. 275 photographs.

 
McLean, Mervyn. 1999. Weavers of Songs: Polynesian Music and Dance. Auckland: Auckland University Press. 540 pages. CD added.

"Following his highly respected Maori Music, Mervyn McLean presents a companion volume which takes into account the entire sweep of Polynesian music and dance. He explores in detail twenty specific areas, and describes the musical instruments, the uses, performance, composition, teaching and structure of music across the entire region. Weavers of Song is lavishly illustrated with photographs and musical examples, and will be accompanied by a CD sampler containing songs from all twenty areas considered in the book."

 
Wood-Ellem, Elizabeth. 1999. Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965. Auckland: Auckland University Press.

"Described as fascinating, charming, and well-written, this is an extensive and impressive biography of the much-loved Queen Salote of Tonga. At the same time, and inevitably with such a subject, it is also a political and social history of the kingdom of Tonga between the years 1900 and 1965. Researched over more than twenty years and written with the consent of the Tongan royal family, this book draws on the author's deep knowledge of Tongan society, especially the role of rank, status and the complex marriage and kinship relations among the leading families."