TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Foreword
• Melanesian Artefacts. Postmodernist Reflections, by Fred Melssen
• The Politics of Tradition in Baluan: Social Change and the Construction of the Past in a Manus Society, by Ton Otto
• Political Paradoxes and Timeless Traditions: Ideology and Development among the Tainui Maori, New Zealand, by Toon van Meijl
• Textures of Reciprocity: Social Structure among the Moi of Irian Jaya, by Paul Haenen
• Research (for a Master's Degree) in Suva, Fiji, by Jacqueline Pijl
• A Lecture by a Tongan Philosopher: Nature and Culture in the Pacific and in Europe, by Dirk Vanhoof
• Communications:
  - Personalia
  - Miscellaneous
  - Conferences and Seminars
  - Exhibitions
• Books
• Recent Publications on Oceania