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NEW BOOKS [These books can not be
purchased from the CPAS. Please send your enquiries directly to the
publishers.] GENERAL Evans, Bethwyn. 2003. A Study
of Valency-changing Devices in Proto Oceanic. Canberra: Pacific
Linguistics. 352 pages. ISBN: 0-85883-487-1-7 (paperback). Pacific Linguistics
539. "Characteristic
of many of the Oceanic languages of the Pacific is the presence of several
valency-changing devices. This work is an historical study of three
valency-increasing and two valency-decreasing morphemes, presenting
descriptions of their reflexes in a number of modern Oceanic languages and a
detailed reconstruction of their forms and functions in the ancestor language,
Proto Oceanic. The reconstructions of valency-changing devices is presented within
of an analysis of morphosyntactic classes of verbs, both in the modern
languages and in Proto Oceanic. This is
the first volume in the Studies in Language Change series, published by Pacific
Linguistics in association with the Centre for Research on Language Change at
the Australian National University." Jowitt, Anita and Tess Newton-Cain (eds). 2003. Passage of Change:
Law, Society and Governance in the Pacific. Canberra: Pandanus Books. 357
pages. ISBN: 1-74076-025-5. "Collection
of essays that cover a number of the most fundamental issues facing Pacific
Island countries and their legal systems, including modernisation, corruption,
custom, human rights, natural resource issues, and disorder. The book will be
used as a compulsory textbook in a 4th Year compulsory LLB course at the
University of the South Pacific (Current Issues in Pacific Law), will be a
recommended work for legal sociology, but is also intended for the wider public
(particularly sociology and development studies students and practitioners,
policy makers and the aid donor community)." Lockwood, Victoria S. (ed.). 2004. Globalization and Culture Change
in the Pacific Islands. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. 448
pages. ISBN: 0-13-042173-1. "Bringing
together top specialists in the anthropology of Oceania, this text offers
insight into the major social, economic and political transformations that are
taking place in Pacific Island societies. The authors present real-life cases
of communities that are dealing with specific processes of globalization. The
case studies reflect the many different cultural contexts of island societies
as they formulate their own responses to various issues." Manganaro, Marc. 2002. Culture,
1922: The Emergence of a Concept. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press. 256 pages. ISBN: 0-691-00137-5 (paper) 0-691-00136-7 (cloth). "This book traces the intellectual and
institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the
first half of the twentieth century. With primary attention to how models of
culture are created, elaborated upon, transformed, resisted, and ignored, Marc
Manganaro works across disciplinary lines to embrace literary, literary
critical, and anthropological writing. Tracing two traditions of thinking about
culture, as elite products and pursuits and as common and shared systems of
values, Manganaro argues that these modernist formulations are not mutually
exclusive and have indeed intermingled in complex and interesting ways
throughout the development of literary studies and anthropology. Beginning with
the important Victorian architects of culture - Matthew Arnold and Edward Tylor
- the book follows a number of main figures, schools, and movements up to 1950
such as anthropologist Franz Boas, his disciples Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict,
and Zora Neale Hurston, literary modernists T. S. Eliot and James Joyce,
functional anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, modernist literary critic I. A.
Richards, the New Critics, and Kenneth Burke. The main focus here, however, is
upon three works published in 1922, the watershed year of Modernism - Eliot's The
Waste Land, Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific, and
Joyce's Ulysses. Manganaro reads these masterworks and the history of
their reception as efforts toward defining culture." Peers, Laura and Alison K.
Brown (eds). 2003. Museums and Source Communities. New York: Routledge.
ISBN: 0415280516 (hardback) and 0415280524 (paperback). "The growth of collaboration between museums
and source communities - the people from whom collections originate - is one of
the most important developments in modern museum practice. This volume combines
some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with
newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved.
Focusing on museums in North America, the Pacific and the United Kingdom, the
book highlights three areas which demonstrate the new developments most
clearly: 1. The museum as field site or 'contact zone' - a place which source
community members enter for purposes of consultation and collaboration; 2.
Visual repatriation - the use of photography to return images of ancestors,
historical moments and material heritage to source communities; 3. Exhibition
case studies - these are discussed to reveal the implications of cross-cultural
and collaborative research for museums, and how such projects have challenged
established attitudes and practices." Ray, Binayak. 2003. South
Pacific Least Developing Countries: Towards Positive Independence. Kolkata,
India: Progressive Publishers. 198 pages. ISBN: 81-8064-056-6 "Ray
examines the situations of the five Pacific Island states which are included in
the UNDP's definition of least developing countries: Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon
Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. The poor economic performance of these five
countries, he argues, has kept them dependent on others, with the result that
they have not achieved 'positive independence'. However, Ray sees hope in
recent technological developments which may enable these small island states to
harness resources from their vast Exclusive Economic Zones. His analysis
thus goes well beyond the bounds of conventional economic prescriptions for the
region and challenges some of the conventional wisdoms of both policy makers
and Pacific Islanders themselves." Salmond,
Anne. 2003. The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press. 536 pages. ISBN: 0-300-10092-2
(cloth). "This
vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook's great voyages in the South Seas,
focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the island peoples they
'discovered.' While Cook and his men were initially confounded by the
Polynesians, they were also curious. Cook and his crew soon formed friendships
- and often more intimate relationships - with the islanders. The islanders,
who initially were not certain if the Englishmen were even human, came to
experiment with Western customs and in some cases joined the voyagers on their
expeditions. But familiarity quickly bred contempt. Shipboard discipline was
threatened by these new relationships, and the culture of the islands was also
changed forever. Captain Cook, initially determined to act as an enlightened
leader, saw his resolve falter during the third voyage. Amicable relations
turned hostile, culminating in Cook's violent death on the shores of
Hawaii." Stewart,
Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern (eds). 2003. Landscape, Memory and History:
Anthropological Perspectives. London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press. 256
pages. ISBN: 0745319661 (paper) and 074531967X (cloth). "How
do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by
history? The contributors explore this question from an anthropological angle,
assessing the connections between place, space, identity, nationalism, history
and memory in a variety of different settings around the world. Taking
historical change and memory as key themes, they offer a broad study that will
appeal to a readership across the social sciences. Contributors from North
America, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and Europe explore a wide variety of
case studies that includes seascapes in Jamaica; the Solomon Islands; the
forests of Madagascar; Aboriginal and European notions of landscape in
Australia; place and identity in 19th century maps and the bogs of Ireland;
contemporary concerns over changing landscapes in Papua New Guinea; and
representations of landscape and history in the poetry of the Scottish
borders." Torrence,
Robin and John Grattan (eds). 2002. Natural Disasters and Cultural Change.
London and New York: Routledge. 368 pages. ISBN: 0415216966 (hardback). "Human
cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time.
This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous
catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera and Vesuvius. These studies
demonstrate that diverse human cultures had well-developed strategies which
facilitated their response to extreme natural events." Wallace,
Lee. 2003. Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities. Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN: 0-8014-4121-8 (cloth) and 0-8014-8832-X
(paper). "European
literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the
Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The received wisdom of these
accounts is based on the idea of female bodies unrestrained by civilization. In
a revisionist history of the Pacific zone and some of its preeminent Western
imaginists, Lee Wallace suggests that the fantasy of the male body, rather than
of the free-loving female, provides the underlying libidinal structure for many
of the classic 'encounter' narratives from Cook to Melville. The subject of the
book is sexual fantasy, particularly male homoerotic fantasy found in the literature
and art of South Sea exploration, colonization, and settlement." AUSTRALIA Attwood, Bain and S.G. Foster (eds), 2003. Frontier Conflict: The
Australian Experience. Canberra: National Museum of Australia. 232 pages.
ISBN: 1-8769-4411-0 (paperback). "While
many books have been written about Australia's contribution to overseas wars,
relatively little has been said about armed conflict within Australia. Yet
Australia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was often the scene
of conflict, as Europeans seized the land and its resources, and its original
owners fought back. The extent of conflict and the degree of violence are
matters of much controversy. This book, based on a forum held at the National
Museum of Australia, presents a series of essays by leading contributors to the
debate. From different historical and political perspectives, they address
several key questions: What happened? How do we know? How do we remember? How
do we tell? Their answers, taken together, comprise a major contribution to the
study of cross-cultural relations in Australia's past and valuable background
for anyone who wishes to understand relations between Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal Australians today." Evans, Nicholas. 2003. Bininj Gun-wok: A Pan-dialectal Grammar of
Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 2 vols. ISBN:
0-85883-530-4-7 (paperback). Pacific Linguistics 541. "The
term Bininj Gun-wok was recently coined to cover a large group of related
dialects spoken in Western Arnhem Land, Australia, including Kunwinjku, Mayali,
Gun-djeihmi, Kune, and others; many of these dialects have not been described
before. Bininj Gun-wok, in turn, belongs to the so-called Gunwinjguan family,
the largest family of non-Pama-Nyungan languages. It is one of the few
Australian languages still being passed on to children, and in fact the number
of speakers is increasing. This detailed pan-dialectal grammar takes care to
set the language in its cultural context throughout, with rich ethnographic
discussion of the many special kinship- based speech registers and a sizeable
text collection with examples of all major dialects. Bininj Gun-wok is a
heavily polysynthetic language, with three productive types of noun
incorporation, incorporation of one verb into another, two applicatives,
reflexive/reciprocal formation, prefixes representing subject and
object/indirect object, and a large number of further adverbial-type prefixes.
Within the nominal system, it has four genders in some dialects, reducing to
simpler systems in others. A major focus of the grammar is the many problems of
how meanings are constructed in a polysynthetic language, and how the many
elements of the verbal morphology interact with one another in the composition
of grammatical structure. This volume will be of interest to a wide range of
readers: morphologists and syntacticians, Australianists, linguistic
anthropologists, dialectologists, typologists, and educationists and others
working in Western Arnhem Land." Foster, Robert, Paul Monaghan and Peter Mühlhäusler. 2003. Early
Forms of Aboriginal English in South Australia, 1840-1920s. Canberra:
Pacific Linguistics. 102 pages. ISBN: 0-85883-463-4-7 (paperback). Pacific
Linguistics 538. "In
recent years pidgin languages have begun to lose the tag that has dogged them
in the past of being bastard or corrupt languages. Arising mainly as reduced
languages for intercultural communication in contexts ranging from trade to
outright colonisation, they have often been viewed by their users as inferior to
the 'full' or 'pure' languages of their respective cultures. As one writer put
it in 1939: 'In whatever country we find Pidgin English it is still an inferior
growth, or development from originally pure words or sentences of some language
or other'. These days pidgins are increasingly recognised for the insights they
provide into the dynamic processes of intercultural communication and the
nature of human communication in general. They are particularly useful for
tracing the ways languages change and develop in response to changing
sociohistorical circumstances. By compiling a dictionary of one such language,
South Australian Pidgin English, spoken primarily between Aborigines and
Europeans in South Australia in the 19th and 20th centuries, we hope to continue
this trend, as well as to provide an invaluable resource for those engaging
with historical and literary texts that in the past have often proved difficult
to those not trained in pidgin linguistics. The dictionary is also intended for
contemporary speakers of Nunga English - a variety of Aboriginal English spoken
in the Adelaide metropolitan and neighbouring country regions - who are
interested in the historical origins of some of the forms they currently use in
their day-to-day communication." Kaberry, Phyllis. 2003. Aboriginal Women, Sacred and Profane.
With a new Introduced by Sandy Toussaint. London and New York: Routledge. 336
pages. ISBN: 0-415-31999-4 (Pb). "First
published in 1939 by Routledge as Aboriginal Woman, Sacred and Profane,
this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is - a
complex social personality with her own prerogatives, duties, problems,
beliefs, rituals and point of view. This groundbreaking and enduring study was
researched in North-West Australia between 1935 and 1936 and was written by a
woman who truly pioneered the study of gender in anthropology. Contents:
Chapter 1. Wielders of the Digging-Stick; Chapter 2. The Social and Spiritual
Background of the Aboriginal Child; Chapter 3. Childhood; Chapter 4. On the
Threshold of Marriage; Chapter 5. The Laws of Marriage and the Needs of the
Individual; Chapter 6. Rights and Duties of Women in Marriage; Chapter 7. The
Functions of Women in the Larger Social Groups; Chapter 8. The Spiritual
Heritage of Aboriginal Woman; Chapter 9. Women's Ceremonies; Chapter 10.
Women's Secret Corroborees; Chapter 11. Aboriginal Women - Sacred and
Profane." Montagu, Ashley. 2004. Coming into Being among the Australian
Aborigines: The Procreative Beliefs of the Australian Aborigines. London:
Routledge. 472 pages. ISBN: 0415330580 (cloth). "This
volume brings together all the evidence bearing upon the procreative beliefs of
the Australian Aborigines and subjects it to a scientific examination in the
light of biological, social and psychological research. First published in
1937. This edition reprints the revised edition of 1974." Pensalfini, Robert. 2003. Jingulu Grammar: An Aboriginal Language of
the Northern Territory. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 262 pages. ISBN:
0-85883-558-4-7 (paperback). Pacific Linguistics 536. "This
book is intended as a thorough description of the Jingulu language as spoken by
the handful of speakers remaining in the Northern Territory during the mid to
late 1990s. The description is based on material which the author collected
during three field trips from 1995 to late 1998. Chapter 1 focuses on the
socio-historical context in which he language is spoken, including estimated of
tradition area, number of speakers, and genetic and cultural affiliations.
Chapter 2 is devoted to Jingulu phonology, from the phoneme inventory and
phonotactics to a spectacular system of vowel harmony and some interesting
facts on reduplication. Chapter 3 outlines the parts of speech of Jingulu as
understood by the author, and argues for the particular labels and categories
that the author assumes in following chapters. Chapter 4 discusses Jingulu
syntax, from simple verbal and non-verbal predication to the encoding of
dependent and conjoined clauses. Chapters 5 and 6 are expositions of the
morphology of Jingulu nominal and verbal words respectively. Chapter 7 contains
a few exemplary texts, glossed and translated into English. Through the grammar
the author has preferred to provide more sentence examples rather than fewer (particular
where the author was less than certain about the accuracy of his own
description), to provide readers with a sense of what Jingulu sentences are
actually like beyond what can be gleaned from prose description, and to provide
future researchers with organised material with which to build their own
hypotheses and analyses. This grammar contains no word list or dictionary. A
separate Jingulu dictionary by the author is in preparation." MELANESIA Beck, Howard. 2003. Beneath
the Cloud Forests: A History of Cave Exploration in Papua New Guinea.
Allschwil, Suisse: Speleo Projects. 352 pages. ISBN 3-908495-11-3 (hardback). "A book that gives a history of cave
exploration in PNG has just been published. It covers mainly the 29
international expeditions over the period 1965 to 1998. The style is
dramaticised; there is not much information about cave exploration by PNG based
cavers; and there is even less about the relationship between villagers and
caves, prehistory, rock art, how villagers use caves now and in the past.
Despite this, it is a useful addition to the PNG literature" Clarke, William C. 2003. Remembering Papua New Guinea: An Eccentric
Ethnography. Canberra: Pandanus Books. 178 pages. ISBN: 1-74076-022-0. "The
Maring people of Papua New Guinea had their first contact with a European just
six years before geographer and anthropologist William C. Clarke arrived to
spend a year living with them in 1964. By the 1990s, after years of storage in
tropical climes, the photographs Clarke took in PNG had become fungus-ridden
and faded. Computer technology was used to restore the photographs, a process
which brought back not just visual images of tropical plants, red soil and skin
made shiny with oil, but the smell of moist earth and banana leaves singeing on
hot rocks. Clarke was transported to a half-forgotten world, a world he brings
back to life in this book, in which he reflects on the moment captured in each
image." Clements, Quinton, David Kavanamaur and Charles Yala (eds). 2003. Building
a Nation in Papua New Guinea: Views of the Post Independence Generation.
Canberra: Pandanus Books. ISBN: 1-74076-028-X (softcover). "At
the beginning of the new century, 25 years since independence, many changes
have occurred in Papua New Guinea, from the Bougainville civil war and internal
political crises, to the many challenges posed by globalisation and
socio-political changes. This collection of essays, written by the
post-independence generation of Papua New Guinea, articulates a vision for the
future. It provides an overview of the history of the past 25 years, frankly
assesses the state-of-the-nation and addresses its future development. The
essays within this volume offer divergent perspectives on the nation-building
process across a wide variety of areas. Common to all, however, is the theme of
nation building. All contributors see themselves as being part of a process
that will ultimately answer the question: 'where to from here?' Elmslie,
Jim. 2003. Irian Jaya under the Gun: Indonesian Economic Development versus
West Papuan Nationalism. Belair, SA (14 Dryandradrive, PO Box 50, Belair
SA5050 Australia; Tel: +61 8 8370 3555; Fax: +61 8 8370 3566; Email:
tonycraw@bigpond.net.au) and Honolulu: Crawford House Publishing Australia
and the University of Hawai'i Press. "Jim Elmslie traces events in Irian Jaya/West
Papua from the departure of the Dutch in 1963 to December 1999. The majority of
the indigenous people of the area consider themselves West Papuans living in
the land of West Papua, a country incorporated into the Indonesian state
without their consent or approval. Made up of Melanesian peoples, the western
part of New Guinea is one of the least developed places on earth with the
largest expanses outside the Amazon of untouched and, in some cases still
unexplored, rainforest and wilderness. It is a region ripe for economic
exploitation." Fijian Studies: A Journal of Contemporary Fiji, 1(2), 2003. Lautoka, Fiji: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies. Special issue: The Sugar Industry. Free download from http:// www.fijianstudies.org/fs_contents_vol1no2.htm
Gina, Lloyd Maepeza. 2003. Journeys in a Small Canoe: The Life and
Times of Lloyd Maepeza Gina of Solomon Islands. Edited by Judith A. Bennett
with Khyla J. Russell. Canberra: Pandanus Books. 290 pages. ISBN:
1-74076-033-6. "Although
the life story of prominent Solomon Islander Sir Lloyd Maepeza Gina has a
unique value for Solomon Islanders, it has universal aspects that people
outside the Solomons will find of interest. From the little many people know of
the history of Solomons, this story distils a lot of it: the importance of
family and genealogy; the web of connections mediated by marriage, adoption and
even abduction; the identification of people with land; the exciting days of
inter-island raiding and head hunting along with the horrors for victims; the
labour trade; the coming of Christianity and missionaries leaving a lasting
impression on the faith of the people; the suffering that the Japanese invasion
induced and the material prosperity and mental stimulation that the Americans
injected into a colonial outpost; the resistance and accommodation by Solomon
Islanders to the colonial power and its officials; the attraction and repulsion
of the colonial order; the sometimes-ambivalent connections with other Pacific
Islanders; the challenges of Independence, its hopes and disappointments;
island-based jealousies and insecurities; the friendships that transcend place
and nationality and the opportunities of the wider world are all embodied in
one life." Halapua, Winston. 2003. Tradition, Lotu and Militarism in Fiji. Lautoka, Fiji: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies. "Halapua's analysis argues that militarism in Fiji is a collusion between privilege and power and has maintained the interests of an elite over the majority in the country. He examines the complex thread that has run through recent history in Fiji." Hermann, Elfriede and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (eds). 2003. Lebenswege
im Spannungsfeld lokaler und globaler Prozesse: Person, Selbst und Emotion in
der ethnologischen Biografieforschung. Göttinger Studien zur Ethnologie
No.11. Münster: LIT Verlag. 296 pages. ISBN: 3-8258-7049-9 (paper). "Lebensgeschichten
eröffnen einen guten Zugang zu persönlichen Erfahrungen in lokal-global
vernetzten Welten. Sie geben Aufschluss darüber, welche Handlungsmöglichkeiten
und Handlungsbeschränkungen für Einzelne durch das Ineinandergreifen von
globalen und lokalen Prozessen entstehen, welche Wege innerhalb dieses Terrains
beschritten werden, und wie diese in der Retrospektive bewertet werden.
Biografische und autobiografische Zeugnisse dienen den Autorinnen und Autoren
dieses Bandes als Ausgangspunkte für ihre Betrachtungen kulturspezifischer
Repräsentationen von Lebenswegen und damit von Person, Selbst und Emotionen
inmitten neu entstandener Machtverhältnisse. Mit Beiträgen von: Birgitt
Röttger-Rössler, Wolfgang Kempf, Andrea Lauser, Elfriede Hermann, Anette
Schade, Lüder Tietz, Volker Heeschen, Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, Camilo
Robayo, Helmut Schindler, and Sonja Speeter-Blaudszun." Herdt, Gilbert. 2003. Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian
Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press. 288 pages. ISBN: 0-472-09761-X (cloth) and 0-472-06761-3 (paper). "The
present book is a greatly revised version of the original lectures. In it, I
have proposed a general theory of the conditions that foster secrecy,
especially among men, who, in dealing with social anxiety and mistrust, deploy
rituals of conditional masculinity to gain purpose and agency, achieve
homosociality and trust, imposing hierarchy and rule over younger males and
women. The personal and institutional outcome is to create an alternative,
hidden cultural reality in society. While previous theorists in Melanesian
ethnography and anthropological study in general have paid little attention to
the role of sexuality in these processes, this book demonstrates the
significance of sexuality in homosociality and relationships between the
genders. This historical formation is especially interesting in view of the
fact that in Melanesia it precedes the development of 'homosexuality' as a
category or homosexual subjects in the cultural meaning system." Hide, R. 2003. Pig Husbandry in New Guinea: A Literature Review and
Bibliography. Canberra: Australian Centre for International Agricultural
Research. 307 pages. ISBN: 1-86320-348-6 (hardcopy). Downloadable as PDF file
from: http://www.aciar.gov.au/web.nsf/doc/ACIA-5UFVPA/$file/MN108.pdf. "Pig
production is the most significant part of smallholder livestock management in
both Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. In New Guinea as a whole, there are
estimated to be nearly 2.5 million domestic pigs, or approximately one animal
for every three people. This publication provides a bibliography of the
literature on New Guinea pig husbandry and reviews that literature. It is
intended as a guide to, and overview of, the current state of knowledge on pigs
in New Guinea and will be a valuable resource for anyone concerned with animal
production, food supply, nutrition, and animal and human health in New
Guinea." For ordering hardcopy, see: http://www.aciar.gov.au/web.nsf/doc/ACIA-5K4V8U. Ordering ACIAR publications ACIAR's distribution policy is to provide complimentary copies of its publications to developing country libraries, institutions, researchers and administrators with an involvement in agriculture, and to any scientist involved in an ACIAR project. Please contact ACIAR's Communications Program by mail, fax or email if you believe you are eligible to receive a complimentary copy. Communications Program ACIAR, GPO Box 1571 Canberra ACT 2601 Australia Fax: +61 2 6217 0501 (domestic calls use area code 02) email comms@aciar.gov.au. Libraries, institutions and
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Victoria 3066 Australia Fax: 61-3-9662 7555 Tel: 61-3-9662 7500 Email: publishing.sales@csiro.au. Web Page: www.publish.csiro.au. Indonesia Commission. 2003. Peace and Progress in Papua. New
York: Council on Foreign Relations. 131 pages. Retrieved November 12, 2003,
from the World Wide Web: http://www.cfr.org/pdf/Indonesia_Commission.pdf "This
report focuses on Papua - a remote,
resource-rich, yet impoverished part of Indonesia. Unless the people of Papua
are accorded greater self-governance and more benefit from the development of
Papua's natural resources, continued conflict could cause a spiral of violence
in Papua. It could also have a destabilizing effect elsewhere in Indonesia by
encouraging ethnic, religious, and separatist violence across the vast
archipelago. Full implementation of the Special Autonomy Law would represent a
win-win situation. For this to happen, the people of Papua would see that
Special Autonomy is about democratization, rather than a mechanism to foreclose
their concept of merdeka. In addition, Indonesian
authorities would see that Special Autonomy is about satisfying the legitimate
concerns of ethnic Papuans, rather than an interim step to political
independence. International stakeholders can help through a more focused and
energetic approach, building local capacity to implement the Special Autonomy
Law. Realizing tangible benefits for the people of Papua would also marginalize
those who use violence to achieve political objectives." Laycock, Donald C. 2003. A Dictionary of Buin: A Language of
Bougainville. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 355 pages. ISBN:
0-85883-511-8-7 (paperback). Pacific Linguistics 537. "Buin
is a Papuan language of southeast Bougainville, and the manuscript of this
dictionary was compiled by Don Laycock in the last twenty years or so of this
life. When he realised in 1988 that he was terminally ill, he though about the
things he wanted to achieve in the months that remained to him. Academically,
the most important was the completion of his Buin dictionary, and he worked on
this as far as his strength allowed. In his final days he asked his colleagues
in the Department of Linguistics at the Research School of Pacific and Asian
Studies of the Australian National University to ensure its publication. This
has taken longer than anyone might have foreseen, largely because of the need
for a suitable editor. In 1994 Masayuki Onishi completed his PhD on the
neighbouring language Motuna and volunteered to edit the dictionary. This he
has done, seeking to remain as true as possible to Don's manuscript and Don's
intentions, aided by Don'e wife Tania and daughter Melany." McDonald, Ross. 2003. Money Makes You Crazy: Custom and Change in the
Solomon Islands. Dunedin, NZ: University of Otago Press. 93 pages. "The
Solomon Islands is a country caught between the worst ravages of globalisation and
its own diverse historic identities. As multinationals eat away its forests and
gold - apparently for the sake of its own economy as well as their own - many
of the Solomons' people see their past and their future evaporating. Ross
McDonald's beautifully written book transports the reader into the places those
who view people only in terms of economics refuse to go. The genius of 'Money
Makes You Crazy' is its ability to evoke the soul of the Solomons. The people
and their places leap out of the page." Mallett, Shelley. 2003. Conceiving Cultures: Reproducing People and
Places on Nuakata, Papua New Guinea. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press. ISBN: 0-472-09828-4 (cloth) and 0-472-06828-8 (paper). "Conceiving
Cultures critically reflects on the ways anthropologists come to understand and
represent the people and cultures that they study. These ideas are developed
through an ethnographic study that explores notions of the gendered person
through knowledge and practices relating to reproductive health on the Massim
island of Nuakata in Papua New Guinea. Conceiving Cultures makes explicit
anthropology's implicit project to understand the self by way of the
other." Meiselas, Susan. 2003. Encounters
with the Dani. Designed by Bethany Johns. Göttingen and New York: Steidl
and International Center of Photography. 196 pages with 200 plates. ISBN:
3-88243-930-0 (hardcover) "In
her most recent body of work, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas pieces
together verbal and visual traces of encounters with the Dani - an indigenous
people of the West Papuan highlands - from the nearly six decades since their
'discovery' by the West. In this subjective, fragmentary history, Meiselas
draws from the experiences of missionaries, colonists, anthropologists and
modern-day ecotourists, all of whom have come to the Dani's Baliem Valley and
transformed the conditions under which they live. The ambiguous relations
between power and representation - whether in the form of Dutch colonial patrol
notes from the 1930s, the sensationalized media accounts of the survivors of a
downed U.S. army plane in 'Shangri-La' from the 1940s or a tourist's snapshots
from the 1990s - become visible in Meiselas's book, through both the
contradictions and unexpected continuities of the gathered materials." Moore, Clive. 2003. New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
320 pages ISBN: 0-8248-2485-7 (cloth). "This
is the first work to consider New Guinea and its 40,000-year history in its
entirety. The volume opens with a look at the Melanesian region and argues that
interlocking exchange systems and associated human interchanges are the
"invisible government" through which New Guinea societies operate.
Succeeding chapters review the history of encounters between outsiders and New
Guinea's populations. They consider the history of Malay involvement with New
Guinea over the past two thousand years, demonstrating the extent to which west
New Guinea in particular was incorporated into Malay trading and raiding networks
prior to Western contact. The impact of colonial rule, economic and social
change, World War II, decolonization, and independence are discussed in the
final chapter." Obata, Kazuko. 2003. A Grammar of Bilua: A Papuan Language of the
Solomon Islands. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 333 pages. ISBN:
0-85883-531-2-7 (paperback). Pacific
Linguistics 540. "This
grammar of Bilua, a revision of the author's PhD thesis, is the first
comprehensive description of the language. Bilua is spoken on Vella La Vella
island in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands. According to the 1976
census there are about 85 vernacular languages indigenous to the Solomon
Islands. The majority of these are Austronesian, but among them are four Papuan
languages, one of which is Bilua. The grammar presented here is based on the
dialect of the Bilua area, which is regarded as standard by local people,
probably because Methodist missionaries who arrived early in the twentieth
century regarded it as the language of the island. In the past, the
Austronesian language Roviana was used as a lingua franca in the region and so
older people on Vella La Vella speak Roviana as well as Bilua. However, the
role of Roviana has been taken over by Solomon Islands Pidgin which is used in
primary schools and in church ceremonies which are central to the lives of
people in Vella La Vella. There is a high rate of intermarriage between Vella
La Vella people and people from other islands and mixed couples communicate in
Bilua, Pidgin, or one of the other Solomons languages. Pidgin words are mixed
into Bilua and sometimes people switch from one language to another in their
speech. Thus the Bilua language is changing because of the influence of Pidgin,
and, although the population of Vella La Vella is increasing rapidly, Bilua is
endangered." Randell, Nigel. 2003. The White Headhunter of Malaita. London:
Constable and Robinson. ISBN: 1-84119-601-0. "Shanghaied
in San Francisco in 1868, a young Scots sailor embarked upon an eight-year
voyage into the heart of darkness. Jack Renton's remains the only authenticated
account of a mental and physical ordeal that has haunted the western
imagination for centuries. Escaping from his floating prison in an open
whaleboat, he drifted for two thousand miles across the Pacific, only to be
washed up on the shores of an island shunned by all nineteenth-century
mariners, Malaita in the Solomon Islands. There he was stripped of his clothes
and possessions by a tribe of headhunters and was forced to 'go native' to
survive. Initially a slave to their chief, Kabou, he eventually became the
man's most trusted warrior and advisor, loved by him 'as my first-born son'.
Renton's own account, published after he was rescued, caused a sensation,
though we now know that it airbrushes out most of the key events that brought
about this transformation. And there the adventure might have been laid to
rest, except that the Malaitans are masters of the art of oral history, passing
detailed stories down the generations. Randell spent seven years talking to the
Malaitans and piecing together a very different account from Renton's sanitised
version. It is the story of a man who not only adopted their customs, terrible
as some of them were, but who also transformed their island world. Renowned as
a warrior, counsellor, and innovator, Renton's hut and weapons were preserved
as a shrine - still visited by the islanders a century later. Renton did his
best to prepare a people he had grown to love for the onslaught of white
civilisation." Rutherford, Danilyn. 2003. Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The
Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press. 360 pages. ISBN: 0-691-09591-4 (paper) and 0-691-09590-6
(cloth). "With
the resurgence of separatism in the province, Irian Jaya has become the focus
of fears that the Indonesian nation is falling apart. Yet in the early 1990s,
the fieldwork for this book was made possible by the government's belief that
Biaks were finally beginning to see themselves as Indonesians. Taking in the
dynamics of Biak social life and the islands' long history of millennial
unrest, Rutherford shows how practices that indicated Biaks' submission to
national authority actually reproduced antinational understandings of space,
time, and self. Approaching the foreign as a focus of longing in cultural
arenas ranging from kinship to Christianity, Biaks participated in Indonesian
national institutions without accepting the identities they promoted. Their
remarkable response to the Indonesian government (and earlier polities laying
claim to western New Guinea) suggests the limits of national identity and
modernity, writ large." Sillitoe, Paul. 2003. Managing Animals in New Guinea: Preying the
Game in the Highlands. London and New York: Routledge. 416 pages. ISBN:
0-415-28097-4 (Hb). "This
book analyses the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders.
Looking at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and
management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, it asks how natural parameters
affect people's livelihood strategies and their relations with animals and the
wider environment. Contents: List of figures List of tables List of
plates Introduction PART 1 WHAT'S THE GAME? THE FOREST AND ITS ANIMALS 1.1
What's that Bird? 1.2 The Birds. 1.3 Methods and Knowledge 1.4 Furry Animals.
1.5 Disagreements Over Identifications 1.6 Frogs and 'Others' 1.7 Insects and
Small Reptiles 1.8 Taxonomic Politics 1.9 Negotiated Taxonomy 1.10 Agreeing to
Disagree PART 2 WHERE'S THE GAME? HUNTING AND FORAGING 2.1 First Impressions
2.2 Access to Forest 2.3 Forest Resources 2.4 Knowing Animals 2.5 Spell
Knowledge 3.6 Hunting Techniques 2.6.1 Traps: 2.6.2 Bow and Arrows: 2.6.3 Dogs:
2.6.4 Ambushes and Hides: 2.6.5 Other Tactics: 2.7 Returns on Hunting Efforts
2.8 Hunting and Social Status 2.9 Sharing Game 2.10 Wild Plant and Other Foods
2.11 Hunter Gathering in the Highlands? 2.12 Managing Limited Wild Resources
PART 3 WHEN THEY'RE TAME? PIG MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTION 3.1 Pigmanship in the
New Guinea Highlands 3.2 The Pigs 3.3 Pig Management 3.3.1 Husbandry 3.3.2
Reproduction 3.3.3 Control 3.4 Bespelling Pigs 3.5 Ethnovetinary Practices 3.6
Pig Herd Demography 3.7 Pig Ownership 3.8 Pig Politics 3.9 The Work of Pig
Management. 3.10 Pigs in the Past, Present and Future. 3.11 Conclusion
References." Tabani,
Marc Kurt. 2002. Les pouvoirs de la coutume ŕ Vanuatu: Traditionalisme et
édification nationale. Paris: L'Harmattan. 304 pages. ISBN: 2-7475-2980-0. "Les
traditions des sociétés du Pacifique Sud, nagučre condamnées comme un monde de
Ténčbres par les missionnaires, puis décrites comme moribondes par des
générations d'ethnologues, sont aujourd'hui présentées sous l'angle d'une
renaissance culturelle. A Vanuatu, la coutume est devenue, depuis l'indépendance
de ce pays, un symbole politique pour la célébration de la mélanésianité.
L'auteur se livre ŕ un examen critique du poids idéologique du traditionnalisme
dans l'édification nationale du jeune Etat de Vanuatu. Il apporte ainsi une
contribution importante au débat, particuličrement animé ces derničres années
entre océanistes, sur les questions de l'ethnicité et des traditions
inventées." MICRONESIA Lévesque, Rodrigue. 2003. History of Micronesia, Volume 19: Freycinet
Expedition, 1818-1819. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 736 pages.
ISBN: 0-920201-19- 9 (cloth). "These
volumes form a series on the history of the North Pacific. Each contains
primary source material (official reports, private letters) and extracts from
rare books, translated from various languages. Volume 19 contains 14 documents
from 1818, plus extracts from four books about the Freycinet Expedition of
1819, with 50 illustrations. The French scientific expedition led by Captain
Freycinet was the most thorough to visit Micronesia ever. Its 12-volume
official report includes information about life there up to 1819: history,
anthropology, sociology, native customs, industry, commerce, flora and fauna,
linguistics, etc. Captain Freycinet's narrative is given in full; it includes special
reports by many of his officers, notably Lamarche, Berard, Doctors Quoy and
Gaimard. Also included are letters of his wife, who was part of the crew, and
the letters of Jacques Arago, the artist. Arago's book is also reproduced; it
is a poetic rendering that reads like a historical novel." POLYNESIA Grijp, Paul van der. 2003. Garden of the Pacific: Tongan Culture,
Agriculture, and Perenniality of the Gift. Leiden: KITLV Press. 227 pages.
Verhandelingen 213. ISBN: 90-6718-215-X. "This
book presents a emarkable record of Tonga's increasing participation in the
modern global economy, and provides anthropologists, economists, and historians
with a detailed case study that bears heavily on major issues of the day, both
practically and theoretically. The book focuses on issues of identity,
entrepreneurship, and the intricacies of development and addresses the
question, 'How (in the current state of the economy) can a Tongan become a
successful grower?'" Judd, Gerrit P. 2003. Anatomia, 1838. Honolulu: University of
Hawai'i Press. 224 pages. ISBN: 0-8248- 2585-3 (cloth). Hawaiian text with
English translation. Translated by Esther T. Mookin. "This
book is the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language. Gerrit P.
Judd, for a time the only medical missionary in the Islands, wrote the text in
1838 to teach basic anatomy to Hawaiians enrolled at the Mission Seminary
(Lahainaluna School). Working from a standard elementary textbook of the time,
Judd provided his students with more than a simple, straight translation.
Rather than "Hawaiianize" Latin or English names and terms, he
devised new vocabulary and explained medical functions and practices in words
that would be readily understood by a Hawaiian. Judd's use of Hawaiian terms
and descriptions gives us insights into native cultural and healing practices
in the early decades of the nineteenth century. This book is a valuable addition to the growing
collection of translations on native health and will be greatly appreciated by
linguists, historians, and students of Hawaiian language and culture." Kömike Hua'ölelo (ed.). 2003. Mamaka Kaiao: A Modern Hawaiian
Vocabulary. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN: 0-8248-2803- 8
(paper) and 0-8248-2786-4 (cloth). With support from Hale Kuamo'o and 'Aha
Pünana Leo. "This
publication is significant because it extends the lexicon but more importantly,
it provides the contemporary speaker with the essential tool with which to
describe her/his world through the medium of Hawaiian. This publication adds
to the 1998 edition more than 1,000 new and contemporary words that are
essential to the continuation and growth of ka 'ölelo Hawai`i, the Hawaiian
language. Kömike Hua'ölelo was established in 1987 to create words for concepts
and material culture unknown in traditional Hawai'i. " Monrayo, Angeles. 2003. Tomorrow's Memories: Diary of Angeles
Monrayo, 1924-1928. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 250 pages. ISBN
0-8248- 2688-4 (paper) 0-8248-2671-X (cloth). Edited by Rizaline R. Raymundo. "Angeles
Monrayo (1912-2000) began her diary on January 10, 1924, a few months before
she and her father and older brother moved from a sugar plantation in Waipahu
to Pablo Manlapit's strike camp in Honolulu. Here for the first time is a young
Filipino girl's view of life in Hawai`i and central California in the first
decades of the twentieth century - a significant and often turbulent period for
immigrant and migrant labor in both settings. Angeles' vivid, simple language
takes us into the heart of an early Filipino family as its members come to
terms with poverty and racism and struggle to build new lives in a new world.
But even as Angeles recounts the hardships of immigrant life, her diary of
'everyday things' never lets us forget that she and the people around her went
to school and church, enjoyed music and dancing, told jokes, went to the
movies, and fell in love. Essays by Jonathan Okamura and Dawn Mabalon enlarge
on Angeles' account of early working-class Filipinos and situate her experience
in the larger history of Filipino migration to the United States. Rizaline R.
Raymundo is the oldest child of Angeles and Alejandro Raymundo." Parke, Aubrey L. 2003. Rotuma: Custom, Practice and Change: An
Exploration of Customary Authorities, the Kinship System, Customary Land Tenure
and Other Rights. Canberra: Coombs Academic Publishing. 150 pages. ISBN:
1-74076-024-7 (softcover). "Aubrey
Parke, who was a District Officer on Rotuma in the 1960s, draws on his
first-hand experiences to provide a benchmark for contemporary research into
customary change in the rural community of Rotuma. He provides a detailed
analysis of the traditional social organisation and land tenure systems on
Rotuma and how these have been affected by external influences and the
transition from traditional to colonial to post-colonial government. Such
influences have brought about practices which diverge from traditional customs
and accepted norms in the allocation of land, fishing and farming rights,
access to water, other resources and communal facilities and has impacted on
the island's complex kinship system. The Rotuma experience is part of a wider,
regional change in customary systems and this work contributes to the
understanding of Rotuma as an island remote but related to its Pacific Island
neighbours." Van Tilburg,
Jo Anne. 2003. Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and her
Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island. Foreword by Andrew Tatham. New
York: Scribner. ISBN: 074324480X. "Katherine Routledge is a central figure in the
history of Easter Island. Born to a wealthy and prestigious English Quaker
family in 1866, Katherine rebelled against their strict Victorian values,
becoming one of the first female graduates of Oxford University and the first
woman archaeologist to work in Polynesia. At the age of forty, Katherine
married a charismatic Australian adventurer, William Scoresby Routledge, and
they built a ninety-foot, state-of-the-art yacht, christening her Mana. From
1913 to 1915, Katherine and Scoresby led the Mana Expedition to Easter Island,
where Katherine conducted the first-ever excavations of the island's
world-famous stone statues. Katherine collected vast quantities of new
information, which she faithfully transcribed into her journals and field
notebooks. Through interviews with dozens of elderly men and women, she was
able to save the history of the island, whose population was struggling back
from the brink of extinction. Without Katherine's extraordinary efforts, Easter
Island's traditional beliefs and customs would have been forever lost.
Katherine's hard work came at a terrible price. A family history of
schizophrenia and a deep sense of spiritualism brought her under the spell of
an old mystic named Angata, who led an Easter Island rebellion in which
Katherine played a central role. After her return to England, she heard
'voices' that precipitated a separation from Scoresby and nearly destroyed her
ability to write and to publish her fieldwork. Her family blamed Angata, the
Easter Island 'witch doctor,' for driving Katherine insane. With Scoresby, they
kidnapped Katherine from her lavish London home and isolated her in an asylum,
where she died seven years later. Many of Katherine's papers were thought to be
lost until they were discovered by Jo Anne Van Tilburg. In this compelling
biography, Dr. Van Tilburg brings her unique expertise to Katherine Routledge's
discoveries and to her turbulent life. The result is an exciting personal
story, set against the drama of Katherine's remarkable exploration of one of
the most intriguing archaeological sites in the world. " |