Archaeologists have traditionally considered islands as distinct physical and social entities.
In this book, Paul Rainbird discusses the historical construction of this characterization and …

The indigenous social‐political‐economic spheres whose nexuses were located,
respectively, in Yap and Tonga, and which included adjacent islands and archipelagoes …

JULES-SÉ BASTIEN-CÉ SAR DUMONT D'URVILLE'S DEFINITION OF MICRONESIA AS
PART OF a division of Oceania in his 1832 paper, 1 which set the boundaries both …

This paper challenges the historiographical conception of a break, of a historical
discontinuity in the Mariana Islands, and an annihilation of its native inhabitants by the …

The records of the early 20th century Rarotongan land courts are an invaluable source of
ethnohistoric information regarding pre-contact land tenure, social and political relations …

This paper critiques the recent use of Marshall Sahlins' model, which opposes big men to
chiefs to establish a contrast between Austronesian and Non‐Austronesian communities in …

From the time of early European contact to the present, few issues have captured the
imagination of commentators on Paci® c Island communities more than their systems of …

The loss of ceramic technology is widespread in Oceanic island societies. While this
disappearance has taken place at different times, under different conditions, on different …

Maurice Godelier's The Making of Great Men (1986) has achieved deserved renown in
Pacific ethnology for having identified the'great man'as a type of Pacific leader as different …

In an analysis of rank and the conical clan in the Caroline Islands, Petersen (1999) argues
that social stratification in Micronesia has been greatly exaggerated by some …