Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of interest in indigenous, traditional and
customary approaches to peace-making in the context of civil wars. Supporters claim that …

Although gossip is disapproved of across the world's societies, it is a prominent feature of
sociality, whose role in the construction of society and culture cannot be overestimated. In …

Populism and the personalization of politics appears to be threatening the existence of
democracy as we know it all over the world. It is now more important than ever to understand …

Sustainability theory can help achieve desirable social-ecological states by generalizing
lessons across contexts and improving the design of sustainability interventions. To …

In the first decades after independence in 1980, kastom-indigenous knowledge and practice-
became a key marker of ni-Vanuatu identity. However, it was almost entirely concerned with …

What have anthropologists taught us about Melanesia--one of anthropology's most important
and intensively studied world regions? In this book, Professor Bruce Knauft draws together …

Wide ranging and cross-disciplinary in its approach, Foreign Flowers focuses on the process
of policy transfer in the Pacific and the use of power to achieve it. Many governing …

This title was first published in 2000: An original and thought-provoking analysis of modern
initiatives in the tropical rain forest. While issues such as logging, eco-timber, eco-tourism …

This paper examines one aspect of local development, the interaction between local
governments and existing traditional structures. Successful local development has been …

Why are small states statistically more likely to have a democratic political system? By
addressing this question from a qualitative and comparative methodological angle, this book …