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Marta Rohatynskyj's Review Of Advertising Missionaries And Pacific Passages, Marta Rohatynskyj Jun 1999

Marta Rohatynskyj's Review Of Advertising Missionaries And Pacific Passages, Marta Rohatynskyj

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Nicholas J. Goetzfridt's Review Of Richard Feinberg's Seafaring In The Contemporary Pacific Islands: Studies In Continuity And Change, Nicholas J. Goetzfridt Jun 1999

Nicholas J. Goetzfridt's Review Of Richard Feinberg's Seafaring In The Contemporary Pacific Islands: Studies In Continuity And Change, Nicholas J. Goetzfridt

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Toward Historizing Gender In Polynesia: On Vilsoni Hereniko’S Woven Gods And Regional Patterns, Jeannette Marie Mageo Mar 1999

Toward Historizing Gender In Polynesia: On Vilsoni Hereniko’S Woven Gods And Regional Patterns, Jeannette Marie Mageo

Pacific Studies

This article considers possible parallels between Rotuman and Samoan gender history through Vilsoni Hereniko’s book Woven Gods. Hereniko draws upon the work of Victor Turner to analyze his Rotuman data, arguing that wedding clowns reverse normative social structures. Wedding clowns are expert female practitioners of Rotuman joking discourse. This discourse is not only ritualized on special occasions but is also an everyday informal discourse and, I argue, is in this sense normative; it counterbalances respect discourse, which is likewise practiced in ritual (ceremonial) contexts but also in everyday polite contexts. In the Samoan precolonial sex-gender system, males and females had …


Reading The Leaves: The Role Of Tongan Women’S Traditional Wealth And Other “Contraflows” In The Processes Of Modern Migration And Remittance, Kerry James Mar 1997

Reading The Leaves: The Role Of Tongan Women’S Traditional Wealth And Other “Contraflows” In The Processes Of Modern Migration And Remittance, Kerry James

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


C. J. Stevens's Review Of Arne Aleksej Perminow's The Long Way Home: Dilemmas Of Everyday Life In A Tongan Village, C. J. Stevens Jun 1996

C. J. Stevens's Review Of Arne Aleksej Perminow's The Long Way Home: Dilemmas Of Everyday Life In A Tongan Village, C. J. Stevens

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Lingua Franca And Vernacular: Language Use And Language Change On Sikaiana, William W. Donner Jun 1996

Lingua Franca And Vernacular: Language Use And Language Change On Sikaiana, William W. Donner

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The July Festival In The Marquesas Islands: “Youth” And Identity In A Valley Community, Mary Martini Jun 1996

The July Festival In The Marquesas Islands: “Youth” And Identity In A Valley Community, Mary Martini

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Pearl Farming In The Tuamotus: Atoll Development And Its Consequences, Moshe Rapaport Sep 1995

Pearl Farming In The Tuamotus: Atoll Development And Its Consequences, Moshe Rapaport

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Home Alone: The Effects Of Out-Migration On Niuean Elders’ Living Arrangements And Social Supports, Judith C. Barker Sep 1994

Home Alone: The Effects Of Out-Migration On Niuean Elders’ Living Arrangements And Social Supports, Judith C. Barker

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Changing Patterns Of Commitment To Island Homelands: A Case Study Of Western Samoa, Cluny Macpherson Sep 1994

Changing Patterns Of Commitment To Island Homelands: A Case Study Of Western Samoa, Cluny Macpherson

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Effeminate Males And Changes In The Construction Of Gender In Tonga, Kerry E. James Jun 1994

Effeminate Males And Changes In The Construction Of Gender In Tonga, Kerry E. James

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


“It’S The Same Old Song But With A Different Meaning”: Community And Ethnicity In Sikaiana Expressive Culture, William W. Donner Dec 1992

“It’S The Same Old Song But With A Different Meaning”: Community And Ethnicity In Sikaiana Expressive Culture, William W. Donner

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Symbols Of Power And The Politics Of Impotence: The Mölmahao Rebellion On Rotuma, Alan Howard Dec 1992

Symbols Of Power And The Politics Of Impotence: The Mölmahao Rebellion On Rotuma, Alan Howard

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Suicide In Micronesia And Samoa: A Critique Of Explanations, Donald H. Rubinstein Mar 1992

Suicide In Micronesia And Samoa: A Critique Of Explanations, Donald H. Rubinstein

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


To Beat Or Not To Beat, That Is The Question: A Study On Acculturation And Change In An Art-Making Process And Its Relation To Gender Structures, Jehanne H. Teilhet-Fisk Jul 1991

To Beat Or Not To Beat, That Is The Question: A Study On Acculturation And Change In An Art-Making Process And Its Relation To Gender Structures, Jehanne H. Teilhet-Fisk

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Aspects Of Social Organization In Three Samoan Communities, Maureen H. Fitzgerald, Alan Howard Nov 1990

Aspects Of Social Organization In Three Samoan Communities, Maureen H. Fitzgerald, Alan Howard

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Elizabeth Tatar's Review Of Richard Moyle's Traditional Samoan Music, Elizabeth Tatar Mar 1990

Elizabeth Tatar's Review Of Richard Moyle's Traditional Samoan Music, Elizabeth Tatar

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


George E. Marcus's Review Of Antony Hooper And Judith Huntsman's Transformations Of Polynesian Culture, George E. Marcus Jul 1988

George E. Marcus's Review Of Antony Hooper And Judith Huntsman's Transformations Of Polynesian Culture, George E. Marcus

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Road To Power Is A Chainsaw: Villages And Innovation In Western Samoa, Cluny Macpherson Mar 1988

The Road To Power Is A Chainsaw: Villages And Innovation In Western Samoa, Cluny Macpherson

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Rebecca A. Stephenson's Review Of Ngatupuna Kautai Et Al., Atiu: An Island Community, Rebecca A. Stephenson Jul 1987

Rebecca A. Stephenson's Review Of Ngatupuna Kautai Et Al., Atiu: An Island Community, Rebecca A. Stephenson

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Atomization Of Tongan Society, Keith L. Morton Mar 1987

The Atomization Of Tongan Society, Keith L. Morton

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Changes In Rarotongan Attitudes Toward Health And Disease: Historical Factors In The Development Of A Mid-Twentieth-Century Understanding, Raeburn Lange Oct 1986

Changes In Rarotongan Attitudes Toward Health And Disease: Historical Factors In The Development Of A Mid-Twentieth-Century Understanding, Raeburn Lange

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Richard Feinberg's Review Of Patrick Vinton Kirch And D. E. Yen's Tikopia: The Prehistory And Ecology Of A Polynesian Outlier, Richard Feinberg Mar 1986

Richard Feinberg's Review Of Patrick Vinton Kirch And D. E. Yen's Tikopia: The Prehistory And Ecology Of A Polynesian Outlier, Richard Feinberg

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Book Review Forum On Douglas Oliver's Two Tahitian Villages: A Study In Comparison, Douglas Oliver, Paul Shankman, Greg Dening, F. Allan Hanson Apr 1985

Book Review Forum On Douglas Oliver's Two Tahitian Villages: A Study In Comparison, Douglas Oliver, Paul Shankman, Greg Dening, F. Allan Hanson

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.


The Impact Of Modernization On The Aged In American Samoa, Ellen C. Rhoads Apr 1984

The Impact Of Modernization On The Aged In American Samoa, Ellen C. Rhoads

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.