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The Contemporary Pacific: An Interdisciplinary Journal covers a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary developments in the entire Pacific Islands region, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. It features refereed, readable articles that examine social, economic, political, ecological, and cultural topics, along with political reviews, book and media reviews, resource reviews, and a dialogue section with interviews and short essays. Each issue highlights the work of a Pacific Islander artist.
Sponsor: Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
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Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2007Table of Contents
Articles

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View Nemesis, Speaking, and Tauhi Vaha'a: Interdisciplinarity and the Truth of "Mental Illness" in Vava'u, Tonga
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View Fashion as Fetish: The Agency of Modern Clothing and Traditional Body Decoration among North Mekeo of Papua New Guinea
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Dialogue
Political Reviews
Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006
Reviews of Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, and Nauru are not included in this issue
Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006
Reviews of American Sāmoa and Niue are not included in this issue but, for the first time, a review of Rapa Nui is included.
Book and Media Reviews

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View Ce souffle venu des ancêtres. . . L'oeuvre politique de Jean-Marie Tjibaou (1936-1989) (review)
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View "First Contacts" in Polynesia: The Samoan Case (1722-1848); Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity (review)
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View Decolonising the Mind: The Impact of the University on Culture and Identity in Papua New Guinea, 1971-1974 (review)
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View Savannah Flames: Papua New Guinean Journal of Literature, Languages and Culture, Volume 5 (review)
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View Life in the Pacific of the 1700s: The Cook/ Forster Collection of the George August University of Göttingen (review)
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ISSN | 1527-9464 |
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Print ISSN | 1043-898X |
Launched on MUSE | 2007-01-17 |
Open Access | No |