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No. 2                                                                                                         

‘They are digging their graves with their teeth.’ Mortality, poverty and nutrition in the Pacific

Kesaia Seniloli

Bougainville: the future of an island microstate

John Connell
 

‘A lot of talking’ and no significant economic progress: a review of wage policy in Papua New Guinea

Benedict Y Imbun

‘You can only do that “outside the village”.’ Envy, communal pressure, spatiality and accumulation of agricultural land around Nairukuruku, Naitasiri, Viti Levu, Fiji

Sean Sloan

Convergence of accounting standards in the South Pacific island nations: the case of Fiji

Parmod Chand


Research Communications
Maternal experiences of childhood Pacific Island mothers in New Zealand Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, Janis Paterson and Esther Tumama Cowley-Malcolm
The deBrum library on Likiep Atoll: an example of private library development in Micronesia at the turn of the twentieth century Dirk HR Spennemann

Partnerships and the quest for effective community-based resource management: the Mositi Vanuaso project, Gau, Fiji

Joeli Veitayaki, Alifereti Tawake, Alifereti Bogiva, Semisi Meo, Nacanieli Ravula, Ron Vave, Pio Radikedike and Patrick Sakiusa Fong


Book Reviews

Niue Island: Geographical Perspectives on the Rock of Polynesia, eds
James P Terry & Warwick E Murray

Eric Waddell

Pacific Journeys. Essays in Honour of John Dunmore, eds Glynnis M Cropp,
Noel R Watts, Roger DJ Collins & KR Howe

Adrian Muckle

Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism, 4th edn, Brian Boniface & Chris Cooper

and

Worldwide Destinations: Casebook: The Geography of Travel and Tourism
Brian Boniface & Chris Cooper

Stephen Doorne

Identity Work: Constructing Pacific Lives, eds Pamela J Stewart and Andrew Strathern

Robert Norton

Shifting Images of Identity in the Pacific, eds Toon van Meijl & Jelle Miedema

Lin Poyer

In the Far Islands: The Role of Natives from the Philippines in the Conquest, Colonization, and Repopulation of the Mariana Islands, 1668–1903, Augusto
V De Viana,

Dirk Anthony Ballendorf

Typhoons in Micronesia: the history of tropical cyclones and their effects until 1914, Dirk HR Spennemann

Dirk Anthony Ballendorf

The Secret Guam Study: How President Ford’s approval of the commonwealth was blocked by federal officials, Howard P Willens & Dirk A Ballendorf

Arnold H Leibowitz

Confrontation in the Pacific: The Guam Teachers’ Strike of 1981, Bruce G Karolle

Dirk Anthony Ballendorf

Rusila, Oct. 2006