In this Issue

Table of Contents

About the Artist: Ralph Regenvanu

Sara Lightner
p. ix
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0061
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URIPIV Oral Trandition

The Story of the Eel

Elder Mark
pp. 357-362
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0062
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Articles

A Fishy Romance: Chiefly Power and the Geopolitics of Desire

Young Leslie, Heather E
pp. 365-408
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0059
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The Trouble with RAMSI: Reexamining the Roots of Conflict in Solomon Islands

Shahar Hameiri
pp. 409-441
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0052
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URIPIV Oral Trandition

The Last Leseserrkab on Uripiv

Elder Mark
pp. 443-444
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0063
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Dialogue

Making a Case for Tongan as an Endangered Language

Yuko Otsuka
pp. 446-473
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0064
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Viewing Diasporas from the Pacific: What Pacific Ethnographies Offer Pacific Diaspora Studies

Ilana Gershon
pp. 474-502
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0050
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URIPIV Oral Trandition

The Journey of the Dead

Chief Sukon
pp. 505-506
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0069
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Resources

Imagining Oceania: Indigenous and Foreign Representations of a Sea of Islands

Margaret Jolly
pp. 508-545
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0054
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URIPIV Oral Tradition

The Two Children Left Behind

Frank Kenneth
pp. 547-549
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0057
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Political Reviews

The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2005–2006

Karin von Strokirch
pp. 552-577
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0068
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Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2006
Reviews of Papua New Guinea and West Papua are not included in this issue

Fiji

Alumita L. Durutalo
pp. 578-582
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0048
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New Caledonia

David A. Chappell
pp. 582-597
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0045
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Solomon Islands

Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka, Louisa Kabutaulaka
pp. 597-605
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0056
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Vanuatu

Anita Jowitt
pp. 605-612
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0055
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URIPIV Oral Tradition

The Lebon Brothers

John Regenvanu
pp. 615-616
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0066
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Book and Media Reviews

The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Culture Change (review)

Bruce M. Knauft
pp. 618-620
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0058
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Pacific Futures (review)

Van Fossen, Anthony B
pp. 620-622
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0049
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Political Parties in the Pacific Islands (review)

Stephen I. Levine
pp. 622-623
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0060
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Globalization and the Re-Shaping of Christianity in the Pacific Islands (review)

John Barker
pp. 624-626
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0042
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Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (review)

Alex Golub
pp. 626-628
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0051
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Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea (review)

Malia Talakai
pp. 628-629
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0072
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Social Discord and Bodily Disorder: Healing among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea (review)

Judith C. Barker
pp. 630-632
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0043
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Les Javanais du Caillou, Des affres de l'exil aux aléas de l'intégration: Sociologie historique de la communauté indonésienne de Nouvelle Calédonie / The Javanese of the Rock: From the Hazards of Exile to the Hazards of Integration (review)

Jean-Louis Rallu
pp. 632-635
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0065
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Shifting Images of Identity in the Pacific (review)

Eric Kline Silverman
pp. 635-638
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0067
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The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania (review)

John Terrell
pp. 638-640
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0074
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Borrowing: A Pacific Perspective (review)

Uri Tadmor
pp. 640-643
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0071
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American Pacificism: Oceania in the US Imagination (review)

Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
pp. 644-646
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0047
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No Turning Back: A Memoir (review)

Rob Hilliard
pp. 646-648
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0053
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One and a Half Pacific Islands / Teuana ao Teiterana n aba n Te Betebeke: Stories the Banaban People Tell of Themselves/I-Banaba Aika a Karakin oin Rongorongola (review)

Mary E. Lawson Burke
pp. 648-651
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0044
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The Songmaker's Chair (review)

Robert Sullivan
pp. 651-653
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0070
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Samoan Wedding, and: No. 2 (review)

Marata Tamaira
pp. 653-657
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0073
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Pacific Encounters: Art and Divinity in Polynesia, 1760-1860 (review)

Te Arapo Wallace, Patricia
pp. 657-661
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0075
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Contributors

Contributors

pp. 663-664
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0046
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Images

Images

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0076
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Errata

Errata

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2007.0077
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