Contemporary Pacific Societies Studies in Development and Change

by Lockwood, Victoria S.; Harding, Thomas G.; Wallace, Ben J.

• ISBN13: 9780131747234
• ISBN10: 0131747231
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-07-16
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

The twenty-one articles in this text describe and analyze contemporary political, social, and economic issues in the three culture areas of Oceania: Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Chapters are written by noted specialists in all areas and are well mixed regionally and topically to give a broad perspective on contemporary change and development in the Pacific Islands. For social scientists working throughout Oceania and all those interested in contemporary Pacific cultures.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Contemporary Pacific Societies

The Colonial Legacy and Nation Building

Tonga's Contemporary Globalizing Strategies: Trading on Sovereignty amidst International Migration

Imagining a Nation: Race, Politics and Crisis in Post-Colonial Fiji

The Law of the State and the State of the Law in Vanuatu

New Political Statuses in American Micronesia

Welfare State Colonialism in Rural French Polynesia

Markets, Development, and Capitalism

From the Stone Age to the Age of Corporate Takeovers

Pigs, Pearlshells, and ` Women's Work`: Collective Response to Change in Highland Papua New Guinea

The Cult of Custom Meets the Search for Money in Western Samoa

The Samoan Exodus

Keeping Options Open: Copra and Fish in Rural Vanuatu

Some Pohnpei Strategies for Economic Survival

Education is Development on a Ten-Acre Island

Identity, Community, and Social Relations

Migration, Urbanization, and Rural-Urban Links: Toaripi in Port Moresby

The Historial Course of True Love in the Sepik

The Fist, the Stick, and the Bottle of Bleach: Wife Bashing and Female Suicide in a Papua New Guinea Society

A Pacific Haze: Alcohol and Drugs in Oceania

Religious Experience and Worldview

Melanesian Cargo Cults

The Brokers of the Lord: The Ministration of a Christian Faith in the Sepik Basin of Papua New Guinea

Christmas on Ujelang: The Politics of Continuity in the Context of Change

The Maori Tradition of Prophecy: Religion, History and Politics in New Zealand

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