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GENERAL

Bennardo, Giovanni (ed.). 2001. Representing Space in Oceania. Canberra: Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

"Oceania has traditionally been the 'place' in which great debates about the human condition have been started, conducted, and sometimes resolved. The articles in this volume prove once more the vitality of the research conducted in this geographically vast and culturally varied area of the world. This book contributes to the investigation of space as a knowledge domain, in particular to the linguistic, mental, and cultural representations of spatial relationships in Oceania. It emphasizes the significance and usefulness of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research, and cultural area surveys. This volume is of interest not only to cultural and linguistic anthropologists, but also to linguists and cognitive psychologists, and to scholars and students of Oceania."

Crocombe, Ron. 2001. The South Pacific. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific. ISBN: 982-02-0154-3. 792 pages.

Ron Crocombe writes: "The same title (but this one has no subtitle) was used on a book of mine that was reprinted 13 times in 5 revised editions. But those first 13 printings were at most 270 pages long, whereas the new one, which is 792 pages, case bound, is indeed a new book." Ian Campbell writes: "It is impossible to be other than impressed with the author's command of the subject. All will learn from it, whatever his/her special interests. The writing is lucid, balancing close argument with an abundance of evidence and anecdote. No one else could write a book like this, based as it is on 50 years experience during which the author has been personally acquainted with most of the main political characters, and has acquired unrivalled knowledge of all facets of the Pacific."

Deckker, Paul de, and Jean-Yves Faberon (eds). 2001. Custom and the Law. Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, Australian National University.

"Throughout the world today, traditional and customary ways are reclaiming their place in society. In particular, customary legal systems are being revived or rejuvenated, reflecting the belief that they are more useful, appropriate and practical in some contexts than systems imposed by colonial powers. Often, however, this has led to conflict between the real imperatives of customary and traditional practice and the more formal strictures of Western legal systems. In this English translation of Custom and the Law, a wide array of specialists discuss the critical aspects of the often tense relationship between indigenous custom and tradition and externally-imposed Western societal structures. Although concentrating on the situation in the French Overseas Territories, Custom and the Law is a valuable contribution to the emerging global discussion on this complex issue."

Daizaburo Yui and Yasuo Endo (eds). 2001. Framing the Pacific in the 21st Century: Coexistence and Friction: Proceedings of International Symposium 'The US and the Asia Pacific in the 21st Century...', Tokyo. Tokyo: Center for Pacific and American Studies.

Jolly, Margaret and Kalpana Ram (eds). 2001. Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 344 pages.

"Through an exploration of richly varied national histories, the authors highlight the common recurring intimacies between marking the borders of states and remoulding the bodies of women as reproductive citizens. The tensions between past and present, between local, national and international concerns, and between men and women's interests in reproduction are all graphically revealed. Surveying the relationship between the emerging models of citizenship and state population projects in several Asian states - India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and the Pacific states of Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu - this book will attract readers in the several disciplines of anthropology, demography, and history as well as the cross disciplinary fields of gender and development studies."

Lamb, Jonathan. 2001. Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-46848-8 (cloth)and 0-226-46849-6 (paper).

"The violence, wonder, and nostalgia of voyaging are nowhere more vivid than in the literature of South Seas exploration. This book charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed. Lamb contends that European exploration of the South Seas was less confident and mindful than we have assumed. It was, instead, conducted in moods of distraction and infatuation that were hard to make sense of and difficult to narrate, and it prompted reactions among indigenous peoples that were equally passionate and irregular. This book also examines these common crises of exploration in the context of a metropolitan audience that eagerly consumed narratives of the Pacific while doubting their truth. Lamb considers why these halting and incredible journals were so popular with the reading public, and suggests that they dramatized anxieties and bafflements rankling at the heart of commercial society."

Lal, Brij V. and P. Hempenstall (eds) 2001. Pacific Lives, Pacific Places: Bursting Boundaries in Pacific History. Canberra: The Journal of Pacific History (with support from the History Department, Canterbury University, New Zealand). 188 pages.

Lukere, Vicki and Margaret Jolly (eds). 2001. Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity? Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

"This collection explores birthing in the Pacific against the background of debates about tradition and modernity. A wide-ranging introduction and conclusion, together with case studies from Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga, show how simple contrasts between traditional and modern practices, technocratic and organic models of childbirth, indigenous and foreign approaches, and notions of "before" and "after" can be potent but problematic. The difficulties entailed confront public health programs concerned with practical issues of infant and maternal survival in developing countries as well as scholarly analyses of birthing in cross-cultural contexts."

National Library of Australia. 2001. Cook and Omai: The Cult of the South Seas. Parkes, ACT: National Library of Australia.

"The journey of one man across half the world, from his home in Tahiti to 1770s London and then back again, provides us with a key to understanding the significance of Cook's three Pacific voyages and the cultural milieu in which they took place. Mai, better known as Omai, was discussed by scientists and philosophers, introduced to all the best circles and written about in everything from poetry to pornography. The legacy of Omai's encounter with Europe reveals a culture in a moment of transition, when old certainties were collapsing and new ones were yet to form."

Schemberg, A (comp.). 2001. Childbirth and Maternal Health in the Pacific: A Resources Bibliography. Canberra: Gender Relations Centre, ANU. Electronic publication. 55 pages. Bibliographies Series, Nr 3.

Tryon, Darrell (ed.). 2001. The New Pacific Review, 1(1), December 2000: Pacific Identities, Noumea Symposium Proceedings 15-16 July 1999. Canberra: Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. 434 pages.

Anderson, Atholl, Ian Lilley and Sue O'Connor (eds). 2001. Histories of Old Ages: Essays in Honour of Rhys Jones. Canberra: Pandanus Books, RSPAS, ANU. 444 pages.

Chapters which are authored by members of the Centre for Archaeological Research, RSPAS, and their collaborators are: Meehan, Betty, 'The early life of a new chum, 1941-1969', pp. 1-15; Mulvaney, John, 'Peopled landscapes: from prehistoric Tasmania to contemporary Arnhem Land', pp. 19-22; Allen, Jim 'The last Tasmanian - a personal view', pp. 45-47; Chappell, John, 'Climate before agriculture', pp. 171-183; Golson, Jack, 'New Guinea, Australia and the Sahul connection', pp. 185-210; Spriggs, Matthew, 'Who cares what time it is? The importance of chronology in Pacific archaeology', pp. 237-249; Anderson, Atholl, Linda Ayliffe, Danielle Questiaux, Tarisi Sorovi-Vunidilo and Trevor Worthy, 'The terminal age of the Fijian megafauna', pp. 251-264; Mulvaney, John, 'Erlikilyika; Arrernte ethnographer and artist', pp. 277-286; O'Connor Sue and Barry Fankhauser, 'Art at 40,000 BP? One step closer: an ochre covered rock from Carpenters Gap Shelter 1, Kimberley region, Western Australia', pp. 287-300; Watchman, Alan, 'Wargata Mina to Gunbilmurrung: the direct dating of Australian rock art', pp. 313-325; Brockwell, Sally, Anne Clarke and Robert Levitus, 'Seasonal movement in prehistoric human ecology of the Alligator Rivers region, north Australia', pp. 361-380; Sim, Robin and Darrell West, 'Raven mad: an analysis of bird bone from a West Point midden', pp. 387-396; Cosgrove, Richard and Jim Allen, 'Prey choice and hunting strategies in the Late Pleistocene: evidence from southwest Tasmania', pp. 397-429.

Edwards, Penny and Shen Yuan-fang (eds). 2002. Lost in the Whitewash: Aboriginal-Chinese Encounters in Australia. Canberra: Humanities Research Centre.

"Indigenous researchers and writers Jennifer Martiniello, Gordon Briscoe, and Hannah McGlade bring their interpretations, insights and experience to bear on the memories and histories of Aboriginal-Chinese encounters in west and central Australia and New South Wales. Historians Minoru Hokari and Regina Ganter critique the compartmentalisation of Asian, Aborigine and Anglo-Celtic in Australian Historiography and suggest new models of thinking about Australian histories and identities. Ann McGrath and Julia Martinez explore early twentieth-century Aboriginal-Chinese encounters through mixed marriages and contact sports. Peter Read and Joan Kerr explore the legacies and mysteries of Aboriginal-Chinese crossings through Aboriginal art and local monuments."

Harvey, Mark. 2001. A Grammar of Limilngan: A Language of the Mary River Region, Northern Territory, Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Pacific Linguistics, Nr 516.

"This grammar provides a description of Limilngan, a previously undescribed and now extinct language of northern Australia. Australian languages generally show a high degree of structural similarity to one another. Limilngan shows some of the common Australian patterns, but in other areas it diverges significantly from them. It has a standard Australian phonological inventory, but its phonotactic patterns are unusual. Like many northern languages, it has complex systems of both prefixation and suffixation to nominals and verbs. Prefixation provides information about nominal classification (four classes), mood, and pronominal cross-reference (subjects and objects). Suffixation provides information about case, tense, and aspect. Limilngan differs from most Australian languages in that a considerable amount of its morphology is unproductive, showing complex and irregular allomorphic variation."

Rose, David. 2001. The Western Desert Code: An Australian Cryptogrammar. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. 482 pages.

"This volume is a description of the language of Australia's Western Desert peoples, from the perspective of Western Desert culture, focusing on what M.A.K. Halliday has characterised as 'ways of meaning' in the culture. As a doctoral dissertation this book received exceptional praise from its examiners. C. Matthiessen (Macquarie University) called it 'an outstanding contribution to semiotic and linguistic scholarship in general and to the description and understanding of Australian Aboriginal languages in particular… the first contribution ever to give a comprehensive account of the semiotic complex of an Australian Aboriginal language-culture, using the resources of a powerful theory to map out this complex along a number of dimensions…' K. Davidse (University of Leuven) writes: '…a tremendously inventive effort of interpretation… I know of no other work which has so consistently related to the relation between code, register, semantics, lexicogrammar and phonology as this PhD thesis.'"

Simpson, Jane, David Nash, Mary Laughren, Peter Austin and Barry Alpher (eds). 2001. Forty Years On: Ken Hale and Australian Languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 528 pages.

"The volume starts with several chapters dealing directly with Hale's fieldwork, beginning as he did in Alice Springs with Arrernte and Warlpiri. These include first-hand accounts, by Sara Hale and others, of what it was like grappling with fresh ideas and being in the field in Australia in the 1960s, and serve to place his work in the broader context of Australian language studies. The breathtaking scope of Hale's contribution, both in terms of languages documented and topics examined, is reflected in the diversity of languages and topics covered by the remaining chapters: theory, typology, methodology; syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, language change and creativity, and language policy implementation. The volume also includes an interview with Hale, two vocabularies collected by Hale and O'Grady in 1960, and a bibliography of Hale's Australian work."

Tatz, Colin. 2001. Aboriginal Suicide is Different: A Portrait of Life and Self Destruction. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. 264 pages.

"Aboriginal suicide is different. This AIATSIS Report Series publication takes an historical and anthropological approach to examining the relatively recent phenomenon of suicide by young Aboriginal people, a tragedy which occurs more outside than inside custody. It proposes that Aboriginal youth at risk are suffering more from social than from mental disorder and tries to glimpse the soul of the person rather than merely his or her contribution to our national statistics."

Ballard, Chris, Anton Ploeg and Steven Vink. 2001. Race to the Snow: Photography and the Exploration of Dutch New Guinea, 1907 - 1936. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers.

"From October 4th 2001 until January 13th 2001 the exhibition 'Race to the Snow' will be held at the gallery of the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This exhibition is directly related to the documentary 'Under the Spell of a Mountain', now in production at Viewpoint Productions. The exhibition will show the photographs of four Dutch and two British expeditions that visited the Tapiro, Amungme and Pesechem people between 1907 and 1936, on their way to the snow peaked Carstenz mountains of former New Guinea. Together with the exhibition a book has been published. It gives an all-round image of the expeditions reflected in 55 photographs with historical context and accompanied by commentary from the local Amungme community."

Bourke, R.M., M.G. Allen and J.G. Salisbury (eds). 2001. Food Security for Papua New Guinea: Proceedings of the Papua New Guinea Food and Nutrition 2000 Conference, PNG University of Technology, Lae, 26-30 June 2000. Canberra: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. ACIAR Proceedings Nr 99. 892 pages.

"The topics include the impact of the emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic in PNG on food production; the possible impact of global climate change on PNG agriculture; and population movements and changes in land use over a 21 year period. A common theme that emerges in a number of the policy papers is that food security would be enhanced by better maintenance of rural infrastructure, better access to information by rural villagers and research on a number of key subsistence and cash crops. In addition to papers on PNG, five papers were presented on aspects of food security in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Collectively, the papers contained in the proceedings make a significant contribution to the literature on food security, agriculture and human nutrition in PNG."

Bullard, Alice. 2001. Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

"This is the strange story of how, following the failure of the revolutionary Paris Commune in 1871, some 4,500 Communards were exiled to the South Pacific colony of New Caledonia. The surprising parallels and interactions between the "political savages" and the "natural savages," the Melanesian Kanak, in their confrontation with the forces of French civilization, form the subject of this book."

Burt, Ben and Michael Kwa'ioloa (eds). 2001. A Solomon Islands Chronicle - As Told by Samual Alasa'a. London: British Museum Press.

"An unusual work of oral history and autobiography from Solomon Islands, providing new insights into both the indigenous and colonial history of the Pacific. It is based on a series of recordings made by Samuel Alasa'a, an elder of the Kwara'ae people of Malaita Island, to pass on to his sons the inherited knowledge and personal experiences of a century-long lifetime. He told how the ancestors of the Kwara'ae first arrived on Malaita, explained the genealogical histories of their own clan homelands, and described the arrival of European church and government as he experienced it in his youth. The text has been edited into a continuous narrative, with the help of Samuel Alasa's son Michael. The Kwara'ae original text is printed in parallel with its English translation and each page of narrative faces a page of textual notes, interpretative comment, corroborative data and illustrations including photographs, genealogical charts and local maps."

Gregor, Thomas A. and Donald Tuzin (eds). 2001. Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method. Berkeley, CA and Ewing, NJ: University of California Press. ISBN: 0-520-22851-0 (cloth) and 0-520-22852-9 (paper).

"In both Amazonia and Melanesia, male-female differences infuse social organization and self-conception. They are the core of religion, symbolism, and cosmology, and they permeate ideas about body imagery, procreation, growth, men's cults, and rituals of initiation. The contributors to this innovative volume illuminate the various ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized, shaping subjective experiences common to entire cultural regions, and beyond. Through comparison of the life ways of Melanesia and Amazonia the authors expand the study of gender, as well as the comparative method in anthropology, in new and rewarding directions."

Hyslop, Catriona. 2001. The Lolovoli Dialect of the North-East Ambae Language, Vanuatu. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Pacific Linguistics, Nr 515. 476 pages.

"North-East Ambae is a member of the Northern Vanuatu linkage of Oceanic. It is a conservative Oceanic Language, has strict AVO/SV word order and possesses head-marking characteristics. This description includes a detailed analysis of the system of spatial reference that operates in the language. Possessive and associative constructions are also described in detail."

Joudan, Christine. 2001. Pijin: A Dictionary of the Pidgin of the Solomon Islands - Un dictionnaire du pidgin des Iles Salomon. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

"This cultural dictionary of Pijin is aimed at three different publics: Solomon Islanders who wish to write in Pijin and need to check the spelling of words; visitors to the country who wish to learn Pijin or to know more about it; and scholars who seek to obtain precise and easily accessible linguistic information on the language. Rich in examples, drawings, historical and ethnographic documentation, the dictionary gives access to the Solomon Islands as well as to Pijin. Each of the three intended audiences may refer to the Pijin dictionary to obtain information on the history of the language, its cultural anchorage, the history, customary ways and geography of the archipelago, and aspects of flora, fauna and food."

Lal, Brij V. 2001. Mr Tulsi's Store: A Fijian Journey. Canberra: Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. 209 pages.

"Keywords: Childhood and Youth, East Indians, Fiji, Biography."

Lal, Brij V. and Michael Pretes (eds). 2001. Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji. Canberra: Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. 186 pages.

Lloyd, Stephanie, Marlena Jeffrey and Jenny Hearn (comp.); with an introduction by Hank Nelson 2001. Taim bilong Misis bilong Armi : Memories of Wives of Australian Servicemen in Papua New Guinea 1951-1975. Canberra: Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

"Real stories by real people. Army wives tell their stories - of laughter and tears, of loneliness and lasting friendships, of isolation and the special bond that developed between these women when accompanying their husbands on postings to the Pacific Islands Regiment in Papua New Guinea. For most of the women, it was a life-altering experience."

Lynch John and Terry Crowley. 2001. Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and Bibliography. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Pacific Linguistics, Nr 517. 187 pages.

"Vanuatu has more languages for its population size than any other country in the world. Many of these are almost completely undescribed, while differing amounts of information have been recorded on (and in) other languages. This volume sets out to survey in the linguistic geography of the entire country in the light of the most recent documentation. It also provides intending and experienced linguistic researchers, as well as the literacy and educational policy practitioners, with an exhaustive up-to-date annotated bibliographical listing for every language."

May, R.J. 2001. State and Society in Papua New Guinea: The First Twenty-five Years. Hindmarsh, SA: Crawford House Press. 445 pages.

"The papers in this volume include reviews of: the first decade of independence; political economy up to the late 1980s; internal and external security issues to 1998; and analyses of: class; ethnicity; regionalism and political parties; micronationalism; decentralisation and provincial-government reform; the changing role of the PNG Defence Force and its involvement in the 'Sandline Affair'; the emergence of 'chiefs' in contemporary politics; the origins of the Bougainville crisis; and PNG's relations with Indonesia over their common border. Historical chapters look at: the role of the Reserve Bank of Australia, under H.C. 'Nugget' Coombs, in PNG's decolonisation; pre-independence efforts towards 'political education'; and the emergence of nationalist literature in the 1970s. A comparative chapter examines state, society and governance in PNG and the Philippines. Against this background, an introductory chapter provides an assessment of where PNG stands at the beginning of its next twenty-five years."

Pawley, Andrew, Malcolm Ross and Darrell Tryon (eds). 2001. The Boy from Bundaburg: Studies in Melanesian Linguistics in Honour of Tom Dutton. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Pacific Linguistics, Nr 514. 417 pages.

"Included in the book are essays on Papuan languages by Bernard Comrie (Haruai), Mark Donohue (Burmeso), Cynthia Farr (Korafe), Karl Franklin (Foe, Fasu and Enga), Volker Heeschen (Eipo and Yale), Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey (Ku Waru), the late Otto Nekitel (Abu' Arapesh), Meredith Osmond (Chimbu--Wahgi languages), Andrew Pawley (Proto Trans New Guinea), Malcolm Ross (east Papuan languages), Evelyn Todd (Bilua), C.L. Voorhoeve (Proto Awyu-Dumut) and Apoi Yarapea (Kewa). Contributions on Oceanic Austronesian languages are by Robert Blust (reduplicated colour terms), Joel Bradshaw (Iwal), Ann Chowning (plant names), Susanne Holzknecht (Duwet), John Lynch (possession) and Gunter Senft (Kilivila). There are two contributions are on Pacific pidgins, by Peter Muehlhaeusler and Darrell Tryon, and one on language endangerment by the late Stephen Wurm."

Silverman, Eric Kline. 2001. Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 264 pages. ISBN: 0-472-09757-1 (cloth) and 0-472-06757-5 (paper).

"Eastern Iatmul men in Tambunum village idealize an image of motherhood that is nurturing, sheltering, cleansing, fertile, and chaste. But men also fear an equally compelling image of motherhood that is defiling, dangerous, orificial, aggressive, and carnal. The book is a rejoinder both subtle and strident, both muted and impassioned, to these contrary, embodied images of motherhood. Silverman details the dialogics of mothering and manhood throughout Eastern Iatmul culture, including in his analysis cosmology and myth; food and childraising; architecture and canoes; ethnophysiology and sexuality; shame and hygiene; marriage and kinship; and perhaps most significantly, a ceremonial locus classicus in anthropology: the famous Iatmul naven rite."

Slone, Thomas H. (ed. and transl.). 2001. One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Folktales from Wantok Newspaper, Volume 1: Tales from 1972-1985. 368 Capricorn Avenue, Oakland, California 94611-2058, USA: Masalai Press (THSlone@yahoo.com). ISBN: 0-9714127-0-7. 528 pages.

Slone, Thomas H. (ed. and transl.). 2001. One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Folktales from Wantok Newspaper, Volume 2: Tales from 1986-1997. 368 Capricorn Avenue, Oakland, California 94611-2058, USA: Masalai Press (THSlone@yahoo.com). ISBN 0-9714127-1-5. 613 pages.

"One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights is a two-volume collection of folktales that were published in Papua New Guinea's Wantok Newspaper. The folktales were originally published in Tok Pisin, the pidgin English language of Papua New Guinea. The two-volume collection presents the complete set of 1047 folktales that were originally published from 1972 through 1997 in Tok Pisin. This collection is one of the largest general collections of Papua New Guinean folktales; all of Papua New Guinea's provinces are represented and approximately 35% of Papua New Guinea's 700 language/culture groups are represented. The first volume presents 500 folktales. The second volume presents the 497 folktales, indices, a glossary, references, a gazetteer and maps. The folktales have been extensively indexed in the volumes and the indices are presented in this volume. Indices are given for author, village, original language (or culture group), province, flora and fauna, and folklore motif."

Fitzgerald, Maureen H. 2001. Whisper of the Mother: From Menarche to Menopause among Women in Pohnpei. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, Greenwood Publishing Group. 176 pages.

"This study is an ethnography of menarche, menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, and menopause in one Pacific Island society experiencing significant culture change. The beliefs and practices that surround these uniquely female experiences in this community are explored by combining historic and contemporary data from the Micronesian community of Pohnpei. Interviews with women aged 20 to 74 are included. The study examines how women's experiences are situated in a society that is rapidly being exposed to alternative models and ideas. In exploring the issues, it highlights community concerns about women's lives, their health and that of their community, and the impact cultural change has had on many aspects of contemporary health, including traditional beliefs and practices."

Sigrah, Raobeia K. and Stacey M. King. 2001. Te Ri Ni Banaba - The Backbone of Banaba. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of South Pacific.

"This book is the first ever written by a Banaban and is a must for those who want to know the history of Banaba from the indigenous people themselves who have guarded and preserved their history and culture for centuries long before the arrival of the missionaries and phosphate company at the turn of the 19th century. This work is endorsed by the Banaban elders who asked for the truth to finally be told and raises many new issues never before revealed. Over 50 photos, maps and drawings are included. Full book review coming soon and we will be welcoming your feedback on the Banaba website (www.banaban.com) message board."

Tobin, Jack A. 2001. Stories from the Marshall Islands: Bwebwenato Jan Aelon Kein. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN: 0-8248-2019-3 (paper) and 0-8248-2545-4 (cloth). PALI Language Texts, Dept of Linguistics, UH. 416 pages.

"Among Marshallese the ri-bwebwenato (storyteller) is well known and respected, a living repository and transmitter of traditional history and culture. Here are ninety folktales and stories of historical events, collected and translated into English during the third quarter of the twentieth century. They include tales of origins, humanlike animals, ogres, and sprites--some malevolent, some playful. Many are presented in the original language and are amplified by extensive commentary."

Weisler, Marshall I. 2001. On the Margins of Sustainability: Prehistoric Settlement of Utrok Atoll, Northern Marshall Islands. British Archaeological Reports International Series 967. ISBN: 1-84171-254-X. 144 pages.

"Low coral atolls, especially those situated in drought-prone and typhoon-affected areas, are clearly the most precarious of Pacific island landscapes. This volume reports on the complete archaeological survey of Utrok Atoll, the most northerly, permanently-inhabited atoll in the Marshall Islands. From excavations at five habitation and horticultural sites, several key themes were addressed including chronology and settlement, material culture, marine and terrestrial subsistence, and sea level change and islet formation. The volume concludes with a discussion on how low populations survived for 2000 years in a marginal environmental setting."

Evans, Mike. 2001. Persistence of the Gift: Tongan Tradition in Transnational Context. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

"Evans provides a detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of how, in spite of superficial appearances to the contrary, traditional Tongan values continue to play key roles in the way that Tongans make their way in the modern world. But this ethnography is neither that of a timeless 'ethnographic present' nor of a remote coral atoll. Instead, like the inhabitants of Tonga themselves, the monograph begins in the islands, and works outward, tracing how Tongans seek to meet their own, culturally specific goals, within the constraints, challenges, and opportunities of the world system. Tongan culture, like our own, continues to transform in the face of global change, but the changes experienced by Tongans everywhere are patterned and managed by the values of Tongan agents. Both creative and conservative, the emerging transnationalist system continues to be discernibly and proudly Tongan."

Frazier, Frances N. (trans.) 2001. The True Story of Kaluaikoolau: As Told by His Wife, Piilani. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Distributed for the Kauai Historical Society. ISBN: 0-9703293-0-X (paper) and 0-9607542-9-6 (cloth). 160 pages.

"The story of Kaluaikoolau (or Koolau) is one of Kauai's great legends. In 1892, after learning that he and his young son had contracted leprosy, Koolau fled with his family deep into Kalalau Valley. He vowed never to be taken alive and became a powerful symbol of resistance for many Hawaiians in the years following the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani. The story of Koolau's last years, as narrated by his devoted wife, Piilani, was published in Hawaiian in 1906. In this volume, the Hawaiian text is preceded by an English translation that successfully retains the poetic imagery and figurative language of the original."

Stephan, John J.. 2001. Hawaii under the Rising Sun: Japan's Plans for Conquest after Pearl Harbor. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN: 0-8248-2550-0 (paper). 240 pages.

"This lively, provocative study challenges the widely held belief that the Japanese did not intend to invade the Hawaiian Islands." --Choice. "A disquieting book, which shatters several historical illusions that have almost come to be accepted as facts. It will remind historians how complex and ambiguous history really is." --American Historical Review.