BOOKS

Carrier, James G. (ed.): History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology.

This collection brings together anthropologists and historians who maintain that the "timeless-traditionalism" approach of anthropology is inadequate. Studies in Melanesian Anthropology. 1992 Berkeley: University of California Press.

Clyne, Michael: Community Languages. The Australian Experience.

Without even considering the 150 Aboriginal languages still spoken, Australia has an unparalleled mix of languages other than English in common usage, languages often described by the term 'community'. Drawing on census data and other statistics, this book addresses the current situation of community languages in Australia, analysing which are spoken, by whom, and whereabouts. It focuses on three main issues: how languages other than English are maintained in an English speaking environment, how the structure of the languages themselves changes over time and how the government has responded to such ethnolinguistic diversity. At a time of unprecedented awareness of these languages within society and a realisation of the importance of multilingualism in business this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the role of community languages in shaping the future of Australian society.

1991 Cambridge University Press.

Connell, John & Richard Howitt (eds.): Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia.

This work reviews in detail the relations between mining and indigenous peoples in diverse national, political and cultural settings. With case studies from five nations, the contributors thoroughly assess what they see as the central issues-dispossessions, land rights and compensation.

1992. Oxford University Press.

Crough, Greg: Visible & Invisible. Aboriginal People in the Economy of Northern Australia.

There is little recognition that Aboriginal People are engaged in a wide range of commercial activities, and their economic contribution to many local and regional economies is systematically ignored. In this respect, Aborigines are 'invisible people'. At the other hand Aboriginal people are routinely blamed for wasting 'tax-payers' dollars' and for undermining economic development. In this respect, Aborigines are highly 'visible people'.

This book examines some of these issues, and suggests that Aboriginal people can be seen as the stable, long-term base of development in northern Australia. The High Court's decision in the Mabo Case has guaranteed that the interests and rights of Aboriginal people will receive a great deal more prominence than they have in the past. Some of the ways that this might occur in northern Australia are discussed in this book.

1993. Published jointly by the North Australia Research Unit and the Nugget Coombs Forum for Indigenous Studies.

Epstein, A.L.: In the Midst of Life. Affect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai.

The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. Close involvement with the outside world for over a century has changed their way of life profoundly and brought them scholarly attention out of all proportion to their numbers of their territory. Yet for all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai retain their traditional attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colours almost every aspect of their social existence.

In his new book, highly respected anthropologist A.L. Epstein develops an emotional profile of the Tolai people. Because the emotions elude systematic analysis, they were largely ignored by anthropologists in the past. In the Midst of Life is based squarely on the premise that societies are distinguished as much by the shape of their emotional life as they are by their social arrangements and cultural styles. Epstein described a wide range of mourning ceremonies and other more and less public occasions, investigating not only the words that stand for emotions but also the way affect enters into and informs people's conduct.

1992. Studies in Melanesian Anthropology Series no.3. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-07562- 5.

Finney, Ben: From Sea to Space.

Why was the Hokule'a, a reconstruction of an ancient Polynesian voyaging canoe, built around the Pacific by a group of contemporary Polynesians? In these essays, anthropologist Ben Finney describes the significance of the long voyages and links these explorations to our interest in space.

1992. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Guiart, Jean: Structure de la Chefferie en Mélanésie du Sud.

De la société canaque qu'il n'a cessé d'interroger depuis une trentaine d'années, l'auteur propose un mode de déchiffrement qui confronte données géographiques, mythologiques, historiques (liens au sol et aux ancêtres; périples et réseaux d'alliance; luttes recendicatives). Par sa conception et son expression, cet ouvrage approfondit et renouvelle très largement l'édition originale.

1992. Seconde édition remaniée et augmentée. Paris. ISBN 2- 85265-300-1.

Hayes, Terence E.: Ethnographic Presents. Pioneering Anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands.

The Highlands region of what is now Papua New Guinea was unexplored by Westerners as late as 1950. The pioneering work of the first anthropologists to visit the ares is documented in this autobiographical collection of essays.

1992. Studies in Melanesian Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Herda, Phyllis, Jennifer Terrell and Niel Gunson: Tongan Culture and History.

In January 1987 a group of scholars interested in the history and culture of Tonga came together at the Australian National University, Canberra, for a Conference. In this book 17 papers given on that occasion are published, covering a wide range of subjects including historiography, genealogy, mythology, gender, religion, traditional healing, education, law, and migration. As Sione Latukefu, President of the Tongan History Association, writes in his Foreword, 'The small seeds with uncertain future that was placed in the ground at the A.N.U... has now grown into a healthy young tree...It is to be hoped that...micro-histories will lead eventually to a situation...where a sound general and up-to-date history of Tongan can be produced, based on thorough and scholarly research'. This volume will undoubtedly contribute to such a history.

Published by the Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History in association with Target Oceania. Division of Pacific and Asian History. Australian National University, Canberra. 1992.

Irwin, Geoffrey: The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific.

The exploration and colonisation of the Pacific is one of the most remarkable episodes of human prehistory. Forty years of modern archaeology experimental voyages in rafts and computer simulations of voyages have combined to produce an enormous range of literature on this controversial and mysterious subject. This book represents a major advance in the development of models for the settlement of the Pacific by suggesting that exploration was rapid and purposeful, undertaken systematically as navigation methods progressively improved.

Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-40371-5.

Jackomos, Alick & Derek Fowell: Living Aboriginal History: Stories in the Oral Tradition.

Living Aboriginal History is not an ordinary book. Written in koori-English it is an corroboree in print. It describes in words and pictures the living past of the aboriginal people in Victoria, Australia. The stories cover Aboriginal experiences of life on mission stations; the forced removal of children from parents, the rediscovery of Aboriginal roots; and Aboriginal views on international politics. The book provides a fascinating perspective on socio-historical aspects of Aboriginal-European relationships.

Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-414091.

Johannes, R.E.: Words of the Lagoon. Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Micronesia.

New in paper - "A beautiful account of Robert Johannes' 16 months among the outstanding fisherman of Palau (Belau) and the South West Islands" (Tobi and Sonserol)." Human Ecology.

1993. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Keesing, Roger M.: Custom and Confrontation. The struggle for Cultural Autonomy.

Employing oral testimony gathered over thirty years of fieldwork and drawing on recent theory, a distinguished anthropologist tells the story of a South Pacific tribespeople's struggle against European invasion, colonialism, Christian evangelism, and modern Western culture and shows how this resistance has become an integral part of the Kwaio worldview.

1992. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Kelly, John D.: A Politics of Virtue. Hinduism, Sexuality and Countercolonial Discourse in Fiji.

Kelly opens new questions about dialogue, colonial power and changing conditions of political possibility by examining the connection between politics and sexual morality in the British colony of Fiji from 1929 to 1932. This work shows how competing conceptions of virtue, civilization and citizenship were used to shape social relations in colonial societies.

1991. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

King, Robert J.: The Secret History of the Convict Colony. Alexandro Malaspina's Report on the British Settlement of New South Wales

'Why did Britain send convicts to found a colony in the South Pacific? Why did Spain send an expedition to investigate the new colony? The voyage of exploration to the Pacific led by Alexandro Malaspina was one of the great eighteenth-century expeditions in the style of those led by James Cook and the Comte de la Pérouse. But while it was a major scientific expedition, it also has hidden objectives.

Spain at the time possessed the largest colonial empire. For many years it had laid claim to a monopoly of colonial enterprise in the Pacific. Was this monopoly under threat? One of the expedition's secret aims was to discover the condition and the purpose of the new British outposts at Port Jackson.

Malaspina's secret report on the new colony does more than demonstrate how the European power of the rime used scientific enquiry as a cover, a means of furthering political and strategic designs. It presents evidence that Britain's Botany Bay project was part of a long term strategy to weaken her rival, Spain, by challenging her vulnerable Pacific empire.

Robert King's translation of the report, headed "Political Examination of the English Settlements in the Pacific", with his introduction placing it in its historical context, reveals at last the secret history of Britain's imperial venture.'

1990; Allen & Unwin, Sydney; ISBN 0-04-610020-2; 179 pp.; AUD 29.95.

Kirk, Robert & Emöke Szathmary (eds.): Out of Asia: peopling the Americas and the Pacific

Leading archaeologists, geneticists and linguists throw light on two of the major human migrations that have long excited interest and controversy. An important book for all students of the Americas and the Pacific.

1992 Journal of Pacific History Publication. Div. of Pacific and Asian History. Australian National University.

Knight, Chris: Blood Relations. Menstruation and the Origins of Culture.

This original and ingenious book presents a new theory of the origins of human culture. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, Chris Knight rejects the common assumption that human culture was a modified of primate behavior and argues that it was the product of ab immense social, sexual and political revolution initiated by women.

"This is the most ambitious project on the origins of culture to have emerged for decades" - Mary Douglas.

1992. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Kulick, Don: Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction. Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinea Village.

Don Kulick's book is an anthropological study of language and cultural change amongst a small group of people living in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. The author examines why the villagers of Gapun - a rural and relatively isolated community - are abandoning their vernacular in favour of Tok Pisin, the most widely spoken language in Papua New Guinea, despite their attachment to their own language as a source of identity and as a tie to their lands. He draws on an examination of village socialization practices and on Marshall Sahlins's ideas about structure and event to demonstrate how the villagers' day-to-day interactions, their attitudes to language, children, change and personhood, all contribute to as shift in their language and culture which is beyond their understanding and their control. Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction provides the first detailed documentation of such a process. The book places linguistics change within a interpretive framework and treats language as a symbolic system which affects, and is affected by, the thoughts and actions of everyday life.

1992. Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 14.ISBN 0-521-414849; Cambridge University Press.

Lal, Brij V. (ed.): Pacific Islands History: journeys and transformations.

In December 1991 a Pacific History Workshop was held in the Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. In this book is published a collection of papers delivered at the workshop, in which scholars describe their backgrounds, methods and enthusiasms, and the outcome is an account of some of the achievements, hopes and aspirations of the discipline as a whole.

1992. Journal of Pacific History; Jointly published with Target Oceania. Div. of Pacific and Asian History. Australian National University.

Lal, Brij V.: Broken Waves. A History of the Fiji Islands in the Twentieth Century.

Pacific Islands Monographs Series, No.11.

Broken Waves examines the foundations and legacies of British colonial rule in the Fiji Islands and the response of various segments of Fiji society to the European- dominated order.

Published in Association with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies.

1992. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Langride, Marta (trans.) & Jenifer Terrell (ed.): Von Den Steinen's Marquesean Myths.

A translation into English of the German ethnologist Karl von den Setinen's remarkable collection of Marquesean myths. Rich in ethnographic detail and of great interest to Polynesianists and folklorists alike.

1992. The Journal of Pacific History Publications; Division of Pacific and Asian History. Australian National University Canberra.

Lawrey, John: The Cross of Lorraine in the South Pacific: Australia and the Free French movement 1940- 1942.

A study of the post-contact history of New Caledonia leading up to the overthrow of the local Vichy administration that paved the way for the Allied counter-offensive in the Pacific War. This book is a clear and fascinating account of an episode in Pacific history that had far reaching consequences for the region and the world.

1992. Journal of Pacific History Publications. Div. of Pacific and Asian History. Australian National University.

Layton, Robert: Australian Rock Art. A New Synthesis.

This bookn is an up-to-date survey of Australian rock art, presenting detailed case studies revealing the significance of both recent and ancient art for Australia's living indigenous communities. Archaeological data provides evidence of the ways in which rock art traditions have changed over 15,000 or more years in response to changes in the environment, the development of new forms of social organisation and the impact of European colonial settlement.

Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-34666-5.

Lévesque, Rod (ed.): History of Micronesia. A collection of source documents. Vol.I. European Discovery 1521- 1560.

Announcing a new series to be sold as a limited edition, one volume at a time, as they become available, directly to subscribers only. Librarians and individuals are invited to register for full details.

Volume 1 contains 71 chapters, over 100 documents, beginning with the pre-history of the Pacific, the discovery of America and the South Sea, as well as all primary source documents from Portuguese and Spanish archives on the expeditions from Magellan to Villalobos. Also 2 chapters on the early cartography of the Pacific. All in all 704 pages, full size, with 223 illustrations: figures, maps and charts, tracks of voyages etc.

Volume 1 includes a full bibliography and index.

ISBN 0-929291-01-6 (Vol.i) hardcover US$50 (SAN 170- 2076).

Markus, Andrew: Governing Savages

'In 1928, after a white man was killed, a punitive party mounted a series of attacks on Aborigines northwest of Alice Springs. The party's leader admitted 31 Aborigines were killed. One missionary in the area put the toll at 70; another at as many as 100. Since 1911, the administration of the Northern Territory had been the direct responsibility of the Commonwealth. In placing this event and others within the context of the policies pursued by the national government. Governing Savages reveals how policies of brutality and calculated neglect bequeathed a bitter legacy to subsequent generations.'

1990; Allen & Unwin, Sydney; ISBN 0-04-442150; AUD 19.95; 214 pp.

Narogin, Mudrooroo: Writing from the Fringe: A Study of Modern Aboriginal Literature.

'Mudrooroo Narogin [also known as Colin Johnson], in a closely reasoned text, discusses the problems faced by Aboriginal writing: the pressures exerted by white editors and white publishing houses, the tyranny of classification into genre and the neo-colonialism of the Anglo-Celtic establishment. He explains the motives and objectives of leading Aboriginal writers, analyses their works and discusses their future.'

1990; Melbourne; Hyland House; ISBN 0-947062-55-6; 207 pp.; AUD 19.95

Neumann, Klaus: Not the Way it Really Was. Constructing the Tolai Past.

Rather than impose a single interpretation of a historical event, Neumann presents his readers with a montage of different, subjective interpretations of Tolai history. This compelling work challenges many traditional assumptions about the writing of history.

1992. Pacific Islands Monographs No.10. Published in Association with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Pawley, Andrew (ed.): Man and A Half.

What do the anthropologists Eric Schwimmer, Robin Fox, Mary Douglas, Douglas Yen, Bambi Schiefflin, Roger Keesing, Marie Reay, Brent Berlin and 84 others have in common? They were colleagues and friends of the late Ralph Bulmer and, at the invitation of Andrew Pawley, contributed to the 81 essays this appropriately large book (A4, 624 pp). The range of essays is wide, as might be expected, visiting most fields of anthropology and containing substantial sections on

* ethnobiology, semantics and taxonomy

* traditional societies and the modern world

* linguistic and textual analysis

* prehistory and oral history

* social and symbolic systems

The editor contributes an engaging short biography of Bulmer, and Ian Saem Majnep provides a Kalam perspective upon him.

1991. Honolulu: University of Hawaii.

Pollock, Nancy J.: These Roots Remain. Food Habits in islands of the Central and Eastern Pacific since Western Contact.

This study addresses the question of South Pacific peoples retaining their cultural and dietary attachment to traditional food sources despite Westernization. Why does the use of root and tree starches such as taro, yams, and breadfruit persist despite the availability of other foods? What in fact are the local concepts of food and the values attached to it? Using approaches of symbolic anthropology, social ecology and household economy, Nancy Pollock explores the values of food, not only in diet and health but also as a symbol of power and well-being that structures social life.

Food in Pacific societies is a culture pattern, unique to each society. But some patterns are also shared and those shared patterns are due to links in times past. Pollock seeks to establish the role that food plays in the world view of certain Pacific island societies. She investigates the cultural mechanisms that have allowed certain features associated with food to remain in the face of many intrusions to those societies.

1992. Published by the Institute for Polynesian Studies. Brigham Young University-Hawaii; distributed by University of Hawaii Press.

Romaine, Suzanne: Language in Australia.

Language in Australia provides a wide ranging account of the present linguistic situation in Australia, primarily from a sociolinguistic perspective. The focus is mainly descriptive, and the chapters aim to provide a comprehensive overview and summary of what is known about Australia's languages as well as a guide to current areas of research interest. Throughout the volume, the contributors pay special attention to issues arising from the socio- historical situation in which Australia's languages and language varieties coexist. The volume covers both indigenous and non-indigenous languages and contains a section specifically on 'community' languages, and also one on public policy and social issues relating to English. No other book offers such a broad survey of the language situation in Australia. Linguists as well as non-linguists will find in this volume, which is a companion to Language in the USA and Language in the British Isles, a guide and reference source to the linguistic heritage of Australia.

1991. Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-32786-5.

Romaine, Suzanne: Language, Education and Development. Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea's struggle for development is intimately bound up with the history of Tok Pisin, an English-based pidgin which is the product of nineteenth-century colonialism in the Pacific. The language has since become the most important lingua franca in the region, being spoken by more than a million people in a highly multilingual society. Suzanne Romaine examines some of the changes that are taking place in Tok Pisin as it becomes the native language of the younger generation of rural and urban speakers. These linguistic processes, which are by no means complete, have to understood in the socio-historical context of colonial expansion and strategies for socio-economic development in the post-colonial era.

1992. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-823966-1.

Rose, Deborah Bird: Dingo Makes Us Human.

Deborah Bird Rose's highly original ethnography of the Yarralin people of the Victoria River Valley in the Northern Territrory fulfils what she sees as anthropology's basic purpose: to emphasize our shared humanity. In Dingo makes us human, members of this Aboriginal community recount their stories and communal history. The author lived among the Yarralin for two years and provides an analysis encompassing religion, philosophy, politics, ecology and kinship to explain the ideas contained within the Yarralin's stories and their philosophies of life. Thorugh their own words the Yarralin present a picture of a community creatively maintaining its culture determined to survive the decimation and subjugation which followed white colonisation.

1992. Cambridge University Press. OSBN 0-521-39269-1.

Salmond, Anne: Two Worlds, First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772.

(Anne Salmond: Winner of the New Zealand Book Awards Non- fiction Section). Two Worlds is a penetrating rethinking of the view that Europeans were actively in charge of the first meetings between European explorers and the Maori in New Zealand. Drawing on local tribal documents as well as European accounts, Anne Salmond shows these meetings in a new light. Her trail-blazing work is sure to open up new possibilities in the international study of European exploration and discovery.

1992. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Schrempp, Gregory: Magical Arrows. The Maori, the Greeks and the Folklore of the Universe.

New directions in Anthropological Writing.

Am exploration of cosmology, connecting the Western philosophical tradition with the cosmological traditions of non-Western societies, Using the mythology and philosophy of the Maori as counterpoint, it finds a philosophical common denominator in the thought of Zeno of Elea.

1992. University of Wisconsin Press.

Schroeder, Roger: Initiation and Religion. A Case Study from the Wosera of Papua New Guinea.

It is generally acknowledged that initiation plays an important role in the religious, cultural and social life of societies and individuals. The thesis of this particular work is to focus explicitly on the Wosera male initiation rites with the purpose of describing and analyzing their religious significance.

1992. University Press Fribourg Switzerland. ISBN 3-7278- 0787-3.

Taylor, Lance: Snake Road, a guide to the History, People and Places of the Sogeri District.

With 260 pages of text, 100 maps and over 200 historical and contemporary photographs, SNAKE ROAD is the first detailed account of the history, people and places of the Sogeri (Koitaki) District from 9-Mile to the Musgrave Rover at the end of the plateau. The history of the district, both in peacetime and during the Second World War, covers the long presence of the local Korari people in the uplands, the early colonial exploration of the area and the establishment of the big rubber estates (the most extensive in Papua), the life of the planters and their "labour lines", and the impact on the district and its people of the enormous Australian and American army presence in 1942-43. All known military units are recorded and described in the book.

The book also serves as a comprehensive guide to the Sogeri District of the present day - its resources, development and unique environment.

With a foreword by the Papua New Guinea Minister for Education, SNAKE ROAD also records the history of the Sogeri School, now Sogeri National High School, the first government school in Papua, and the training ground for most of Papua New Guinea's present leaders. The school will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 1994.

More than 250 people in Papua New Guinea and overseas contributed to the compiling of this portrait of the beautiful Sogeri district. SNAKE ROAD was written by Lance Taylor, an Expressive Arts teacher at Sogeri National High School for the past 14 years.

1992. Expressive Arts Sogeri NHS, Papua New Guinea.

Thomas, Nicholas: Entangled Objects. Exchange, Material Culture and Colonialism in the Pacific.

Drawing on his work on contemporary postcolonial Pacific societies, Nicholas Thomas takes up three issues central to modern anthropology: the cultural and political dynamics of colonial encounters, the nature of Western and non-Western transactions, and the significance of material objects in social life. Along the way, he raises doubts about any simple "us/them" dichotomy between Westerners and Pacific Islanders, challenging the preoccupation of anthropology with cultural differences by stressing the shared history of colonial entanglement.

1992. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Trigger, David S.: Whitefella Comin'. Aboriginal Responses to Colonialism in Northern Australia.

For over 200 years, Aboriginal people in Australia have suffered under the political, legal and economic constraints of Australian colonialism. Whitefella Comin' focuses on the social relations of Doomadgee, a mission-dominated community with a predominantly Aboriginal population in Northwest Queensland. Dr. Trigger's study asks complex questions about the extent of resistance and compliance as the Aboriginal people are absorbed into the state administration,. Based on a rich ethnography of everyday life, this analysis makes an original contribution to the study of colonialism and the sociology of Aboriginal communities. The book combines historical archives with interviews with both European and Aboriginal members of the community.

1992. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-40181 X.

Underwood, Robert A.(ed.): ISLA: A Journal of Micronesian Studies.

ISLA: A Journal of Micronesian Studies is refereed semiannual publication featuring original research, analytical essays, policy analyses, book reviews, and other articles about Micronesia. Multidisciplinary in scope and ranging in time from prehistory to the present. ISLA focuses on Micronesian cultures, societies, histories, economies, and the political, educational and health statuses and systems of the region.

Vol.I/No.1/Rainy Season 1992.

1992 Published by the University of Guam Press.

Vries, Lourens de & Robinia de Vries-Wiersma: The Morphology of Wambon.

Wambon is a Papuan language spoken by about 3,000 people in the Upper-Digul area of southern Irian Jaya, Indonesia. This book gives an outline of the morphology of Wambon, placing the data in the wider conyext of the present typological knowledge of Papuan languages. The descriptions are copiously illustrated with examples. These examples mostly taken from recorded texts, are provided with word-for-word glosses and English translations. Four Wambon texts complete the description. Lourens de Vries (1955) and Robinia de Vries (1957) are members of the Mission of Reformed Churches and are currently engaged in further linguistic research in southern Irian Jaya.

1992. Verhandelingen KITLV 151. ISBN 90.6718.046.7.

White, Geoffrey M.: Identity Through History. Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society.

For people who live in small communities transformed by powerful outside forcesm narrative accounts of culture contact and change create images of collective identity through the idiom of shared history. How may we understand the processes that make such accounts compelling for those who tell them? Why do some narrative acquite a kind of mthic statis as they are tols and retold in a variety of contexts and genres? Identity Through History attempts to explain how identity formation developed among the people of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands who were victimised by raiding headhunters in the nineteenth century, and then embraced Christianity arounf the turn of the century. Making innivative use of work in psychological abd historical anthropology, Geoffrey White shows how these significant events were crucial to the community's view of itself in shifting social and political circumstances.

1991. Cambridge School in Social and Cultural Anthropology 83. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-401720.