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The Sustainable, The Expendable, And The Obsolete, Michael D. Lieber Dec 1999

The Sustainable, The Expendable, And The Obsolete, Michael D. Lieber

Pacific Studies

This is a preliminary exploration of the concept of sustainability and its potential usefulness to anthropologists. “Sustainable” is distinguished from “stable” and “viable” in terms of its implications of directionality of time, pointing both backward and forward. Given the time implications, the contexts of “sustainable Xs” (technology, activity, development, etc.) are crucial to explaining what happened to X in the past and prognosticating its future. The argument is illustrated by analyzing data on obsolete fishing practices on Kapingamarangi Atoll (Federated States of Micronesia), focusing on the contexts of change in political /religious organization in the twentieth century. Changing access to …


Accounting For Change: Bringing Interdependence Into Defining Sustainability, Karen L. Nero Dec 1999

Accounting For Change: Bringing Interdependence Into Defining Sustainability, Karen L. Nero

Pacific Studies

“Sustainability,” the key word of international development bodies currently intervening in the restructuring of the Marshall Islands economy, is defined within Western economic conceptualizations. I argue that such characterizations are incomplete: they fail to capture the full nature of the ongoing Marshallese economy by focusing too narrowly on transfers related to the Compact of Free Association and by their partial understanding of Marshallese food systems and easy dichotomies between imported and local foods. The segregation of external interventions by sector further distorts their possible impact. Structural imbalances within the Marshallese and other Pacific nations’ economies have been exacerbated by the …


Lin Poyer's Review Of David Hanlon's Remaking Micronesia: Discourses Over Development In A Pacific Territory, Lin Poyer Mar 1999

Lin Poyer's Review Of David Hanlon's Remaking Micronesia: Discourses Over Development In A Pacific Territory, Lin Poyer

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Contributors: Vol 21 No. 3, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Sep 1998

Contributors: Vol 21 No. 3, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Contributors list of Vol. 21 (1998): Pacific Studies Full Issue 3


Vol. 21 No. 3 (1998): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Sep 1998

Vol. 21 No. 3 (1998): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …


Working Wrongly And Seeking The Straight: Remedial Remedies On Enewetak Atoll, Laurence Marshall Carucci Sep 1998

Working Wrongly And Seeking The Straight: Remedial Remedies On Enewetak Atoll, Laurence Marshall Carucci

Pacific Studies

Classical approaches to righting wrongs among Pacific societies have been couched in terms of normative models of authority, and particularly in relation to societies with positions of ascribed authority, chiefs, and those with acquired authority like Melanesian center persons (“big-men”). In this article, I contend that typological approaches to the analysis of perceived wrongdoing are of limited utility in the assessment of how wrongdoing is culturally fashioned and socially redressed. Instead, I suggest that constructions of wrongdoing are culturally relative. Moreover, ideas and feelings about just and unjust action within the community are also relative and depend upon varied logical …


Demographic Change In The Republic Of Palau, L. J. Gorenflo Sep 1996

Demographic Change In The Republic Of Palau, L. J. Gorenflo

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


New Trends In Micronesian Migration: Fsm Migration To Guam And The Marianas, 1990-1993, Francis X. Hezel, S. J., Michael J. Levin Mar 1996

New Trends In Micronesian Migration: Fsm Migration To Guam And The Marianas, 1990-1993, Francis X. Hezel, S. J., Michael J. Levin

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Regional Demographic Change In Chuuk State, Federated States Of Micronesia, L. J. Gorenflo Sep 1995

Regional Demographic Change In Chuuk State, Federated States Of Micronesia, L. J. Gorenflo

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Linking Colonization And Decolonization: The Case Of Micronesia, Timothy J. Gaffaney Jun 1995

Linking Colonization And Decolonization: The Case Of Micronesia, Timothy J. Gaffaney

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Terminating Trusteeship For The Federated States Of Micronesia And The Republic Of The Marshall Islands: Independence And Self-Sufficiency In The Post-Cold War Pacific, Ellen Boneparth, M. James Wilkinson Jun 1995

Terminating Trusteeship For The Federated States Of Micronesia And The Republic Of The Marshall Islands: Independence And Self-Sufficiency In The Post-Cold War Pacific, Ellen Boneparth, M. James Wilkinson

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Evolution Of Regional Demography In The Marshall Islands, L. J. Gorenflo, Michael J. Levin Mar 1994

The Evolution Of Regional Demography In The Marshall Islands, L. J. Gorenflo, Michael J. Levin

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Norman Meller's Review Of Gary Smith's Micronesia: Decolonization And Us Military Interests In The Trust Territory Of The Pacific Islands, Norman Meller Mar 1994

Norman Meller's Review Of Gary Smith's Micronesia: Decolonization And Us Military Interests In The Trust Territory Of The Pacific Islands, Norman Meller

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Madrich: Outer Islanders On Yap, William H. Alkire Jun 1993

Madrich: Outer Islanders On Yap, William H. Alkire

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Madrich: Outer Islanders On Yap, William H. Alkire Jun 1993

Madrich: Outer Islanders On Yap, William H. Alkire

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Regional Demographic Change In Pohnpei State, Federated States Of Micronesia, L. J. Gorenflo, Michael J. Levin Mar 1992

Regional Demographic Change In Pohnpei State, Federated States Of Micronesia, L. J. Gorenflo, Michael J. Levin

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Regional Demographic Change In Yap State, Federated States Of Micronesia, L. J. Gorenflo, Michael J. Levin Jul 1991

Regional Demographic Change In Yap State, Federated States Of Micronesia, L. J. Gorenflo, Michael J. Levin

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Economic Impact Of Tourism In Kiribati, Simon Milne Mar 1991

The Economic Impact Of Tourism In Kiribati, Simon Milne

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Micronesian Executive: The Federated States Of Micronesia, Kiribati, And The Marshall Islands, Norman Meller Nov 1990

The Micronesian Executive: The Federated States Of Micronesia, Kiribati, And The Marshall Islands, Norman Meller

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Negotiations Of Violence In The Marshallese Household, Laurence Marshall Carucci Jul 1990

Negotiations Of Violence In The Marshallese Household, Laurence Marshall Carucci

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


A Marshallese Nation Emerges From The Political Fragmentation Of American Micronesia, Leonard Mason Nov 1989

A Marshallese Nation Emerges From The Political Fragmentation Of American Micronesia, Leonard Mason

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Great Flight Northward: Fsm Migration To Guam And The Northern Mariana Islands, Francis X. Hezel, Michael J. Levin Nov 1989

The Great Flight Northward: Fsm Migration To Guam And The Northern Mariana Islands, Francis X. Hezel, Michael J. Levin

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Demographic Evolution Of Ebeye, L. J. Gorenflo, Michael J. Levin Jul 1989

The Demographic Evolution Of Ebeye, L. J. Gorenflo, Michael J. Levin

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Elections, Compact, And Assassination In The Republic Of Palau, Donald R. Shuster Sep 1988

Elections, Compact, And Assassination In The Republic Of Palau, Donald R. Shuster

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Guam’S Quest For Political Identity, Robert F. Rogers Sep 1988

Guam’S Quest For Political Identity, Robert F. Rogers

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Elections, Compact, And Assassination In The Republic Of Palau, Donald R. Shuster Sep 1988

Elections, Compact, And Assassination In The Republic Of Palau, Donald R. Shuster

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Guam’S Quest For Political Identity, Robert F. Rogers Sep 1988

Guam’S Quest For Political Identity, Robert F. Rogers

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


U.S. Administration And Prospects For Economic Self-Sufficiency: A Comparison Of Guam And Select Areas Of Micronesia, Larry W. Mayo Jul 1988

U.S. Administration And Prospects For Economic Self-Sufficiency: A Comparison Of Guam And Select Areas Of Micronesia, Larry W. Mayo

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Glenn Petersen's Review Of Norman Meller's Constitutionalism In Micronesia & Ralph R. Premdas And Jeff S. Steeves's Decentralisation And Political Change In Melanesia, Glenn Petersen, Norman Meller Jul 1987

Glenn Petersen's Review Of Norman Meller's Constitutionalism In Micronesia & Ralph R. Premdas And Jeff S. Steeves's Decentralisation And Political Change In Melanesia, Glenn Petersen, Norman Meller

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Sandra J. Rennie's Review Of Barrie Macdonald's Cinderellas Of The Empire: Towards A History Of Kiribati And Tuvalu, Sandra J. Rennie Sep 1984

Sandra J. Rennie's Review Of Barrie Macdonald's Cinderellas Of The Empire: Towards A History Of Kiribati And Tuvalu, Sandra J. Rennie

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.