In this collection of essays, Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology,
explores the historicization of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania …

Much recent literature on non-Western countries celebrates the renaissance of indigenous
culture, Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific, however, looks more critically at …

This extensively revised edition of" Race and politics in Fiji", first published in 1977 is the
most comprehensive sociological study available of the development of Fiji as a national …

Tradition always encodes a relation between past and present, but that relation may be
constituted as continuous or discontinuous (see Handler and Linnekin 1984). Pasts are …

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 …

Using insights from social choice theory, particularly Black's concept of single-peaked
preferences and Downs's median-voter model, the authors previously investigated the …

Indigenous women from across the Pacific have a voice in this book. Zohl de Ishtar travelled
the Pacific during 1986-87 on behalf of Women Working for a Nuclear Free and Independent …

Code-switching from the Fijian language into a variety of Hindi is commonly used for joking
among indigenous Fijians. Examples of this codeswitching are described here, and its role …

The South Pacific is no longer pacific. Nationalist struggles against colonialism, indigenous
claims for sovereignty, and superpower rivalry have turned it into a zone of growing tension …

For some, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna are idyllic tropical islands with a
French flavour, while for others they represent continuing French colonialism, thwarted …