bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF CARD PLAYING ON MALO, VANUATU
Authors: Rubinstein Robert L.
Published: February 2015

The paper examines data from Malo Island (Natamambo), Vanuatu on the playing of Last Card, a form of Crazy Eights that was widely enjoyed there prior to Independence. It argues that card games can serve as a foil for events in society‐at‐large and that, in the present case, Last Card acted as a vehicle for tensions about the insecure land tenure situation and local politics. Since Independence, in 1980, the nature of many interpersonal tensions has changed and the game does not resonate to these new conflicts. The role of kava drinking in this new situation is discussed.
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Authors: Weiner James J.
Published: February 2015

The Production of Inequality: Gender and Exchange among the Kewa. By Lisette Josephides. London: Travistock. 1985. Pp. x + 242.
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Authors: Strathern Andrew
Published: February 2015

Mothers of Money, Daughters of Coffee: The Wok Meri Movement. By Lorraine Sexton. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press. 1986. Pp. xvi +179, maps tables. Price: US$59.95.
A FIJIAN PEASANTRY: GALALA AND VILLAGERS
Authors: Overton John
Published: February 2015

Village societies in rural Fiji have often been studied in terms of a dichotomy between traditional village communalism and independent galala individualism. This was especially so in the 1960s, at a time when government efforts to promote individualist Fijian agriculture led to the creation of a number of resettlement schemes based on the peasant model. Social scientists hailed the galala movement as a fundamental and progressive process of change in Fijian society. However, recent evidence and the demise of regulations which institutionalised galala point to the present lack of distinction between galala and villagers. Indeed, there is considerable confusion within some villages over how galala should be defined and it seems to be much more a matter of spatial location of residence than any attitudinal or economic break with communalism.
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Authors: Carrier Achsah
Published: February 2015

‘Mead's Other Manus’ Phenomenology of the Encounter. By Lola Romanucci‐Ross. South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin and Garvey. 1985. Pp. xxii + 230. Price: US$24.95
ABORIGINAL SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND RECIPROCITY
Authors: Testart Alain
Published: February 2015

This paper seeks to show that while the idea of reciprocity is fundamental in Australian Aboriginal societies, inequalities are also inherent in the kinship system itself. An attempt is then made to articulate these two aspects and to specify the form of social inequality which is characteristic of Australia.

Cet article prétend montrer, d'une part, que l'idée de réciprocité est fondamentale dans les sociétés australiennes, d'autre part, que les inégalités le sont tout autant dans la mesure où elles sont insuites et fondeés dans la parenté elle‐même. Il cherche aussi à montrer comment réciprocité et inégalité s'articulent entre elles. Enfin, it tente de spécifier la forme d'inégalité sociale caractéristique de l'Australie.
The Political Iconography of Aboriginality1
Authors: James Roberta
Published: February 2015

The politics of ambiguity is about multiplicities and is inherent in the politics of representation. Political satire has always been a weapon of critique levelled at those in positions of power, unmasking the disjunctures between the current slogans or discursive strategies of political pretenders and the stark social realities of the people whose interests they apparently protect. Political satire necessarily obscures complexities, precisely those complexities which are disavowed in the dominant discourses.
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Authors: Edmonds Mary
Published: February 2015

Hawke's Law: The Politics of Mining and Aboriginal Land Rights in Australia. By Ronald T. Libby. Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press. 1989. Pp. xxvii + 175. Price $25.00. U S. Edition published by Penn State Press, University Park, PA. 1992. Price US$16.95.
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Authors: Chatterton Paul
Published: February 2015

Small but Strong: Cultural Contexts of (Mal‐) Nutrition among the Northern Kwanga (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea). By Brigit Orbist van Eeuwijk. Basel: Wepf and Co. AG Verlag. 1992. Pp. 283. Price 55 Swiss Francs (pb).
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Authors: Mimica Jadran
Published: February 2015

The Anthropology of Numbers. By Thomas Crump. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, No. 70). 1990. Pp. x + 201.
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Authors: Clark Jeffrey
Published: February 2015

Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping‐While‐Giving. By Annette Weiner. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1992. Pp. xii + 232. Price USA$35 (hb), USA$13 (pb).
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Authors: Rowse Tim
Published: February 2015

From the Centre to the City: Aboriginal Education, Culture and Power. By Kevin Keefe. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. 1992. Pp. xiv + 198.
Construction Sacrifice, Kidnapping and Head‐hunting Rumors on Flores and Elsewhere in Indonesia
Authors: Barnes R.H.
Published: February 2015

Three recent articles have examined head‐hunting and kidnapping rumors in connection with construction sacrifice on Borneo and Flores. This paper presents further information on such rumors on Flores and elsewhere in Indonesia which largely confirms their interpretations. However, the argument is made that rather than being a new phenomenon and a product of the colonial era, these rumors may well have been characteristic of Indonesia from ancient times and have typically been associated with offices of political and military potency. Policies and activities of the Dutch near the Solor islands since the seventeenth century may have strongly reinforced suspicions that they were capable of taking heads through local agents.
Aboriginal Histories, Aboriginal Myths: An Introduction
Authors: Beckett Jeremy
Published: February 2015

The article reopens the issue of the supposed absence of historical consciousness among traditionally oriented Aborigines, and reviews Hill's and Turner's attempts to define the difference between myth and history.

It then discusses some narratives of colonisation from Western New South Wales, and re‐analyses some Aboriginal stories about Captain Cook.
Enga Social Life and Identity in a Papua New Guinea Mining Town1
Authors: Imbun Benedict Y.
Published: February 2015

The process of modernisation coupled with division of labour and leisure have had an enormous impact on tribal people. This group of people have responded to the bewildering environment with the consolidation of their existing network on ethnic and tribal solidarity. This paper looks at one group of people, the Enga people of Papua New Guinea (PNG) while they sought employment in the now abandoned Bougainville copper mine. The paper explains that the Enga workers maintained their own identity through utilisation of leisure activities amid the diverse presence of other workers in the mining town. It concludes that if ethnic and tribal solidarity were to be superseded by other forms of social alliance, would the latter eventually perform the role of protecting, recruiting, and reciprocating not only in Bougainville but in other PNG town settings? These are some of the questions that need to be addressed in the context of socioeconomic development and change in PNG and in other similiar developing countries.
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Authors: Alexander Jennifer
Published: February 2015

Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest. The Economics, Politics and Ideology of Settling Down. By Bernard Sellato. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii + 280.
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Authors: Myers Fred R.
Published: February 2015

Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion: Yolngu of North‐East Arnhem Land. By Ian Keen. Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. xvii + 347 pp., maps, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, index. $84.95.
Memory, Forgetting and the New Tribes Mission in West New Britain
Authors: Lattas Andrew
Published: February 2015

In this paper, I use ethnography from the Kaliai area to explore the social and political relationships which underpin memory and forgetting. I analyse the relationships of hegemony and resistance which are inscribed and articulated in a context of missionising where villagers and missionaries enter into an uneasy alliance to control what should be remembered so that people emerge as particular kinds of subjects. In exploring the social and political organisation of memory, this paper does not treat memory and forgetting as opposites, for people are also taught how to forget. Indeed they are caught in the paradox of always needing to remember that they have to always try to forget. Here the need to forget has the paradoxical effect of keeping alive the content of what must be forgotten. In a strange sort of way the need to forget sustains the need to remember what must be forgotten. I explore the political implications of these paradoxes and ambiguities for sustaining a place outside European hegemony whilst still inscribed in it.
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Authors: Deger Jennifer
Published: February 2015

Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media and Technological Horizons. By Eric Michaels. Sydney: Allen and Unwin 1994. Pp. xiiv + 203. $29.95.
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Authors: Tomasetti Friedegard
Published: February 2015

Weisse und Wilde: Erste Kontakte und Anfaenge der Mission By H. Fischer (Materialien zur Kultur der Wampar, Papua New Guinea; vol. 1) Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1992. Pp. 230. DM48.

Geister und Menschen: Mythen, Maerchen und neue Geschichten By H. Fischer (Materialien zur Kultur der Wampar, Papua New Guinea; vol. 2) Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1994. Pp. 374. DM48
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Authors: Sackett Lee
Published: February 2015

Whitefella Comin': Aboriginal responses to colonialism in northern Australia. By David S. Trigger Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv+250. Price $A49.95.
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Authors: Howard Michael C.
Published: February 2015

Culture & Democracy in the South Pacific. Edited by Ron Crocombe, Uentabo Neemia, Asesela Ravuvu and Werner vom Busch. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1992. Pp. x+280.
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Authors: Meijl Toon Van
Published: February 2015

Te Wai Pounamu — The Greenstone Island: A History of the Southern Maori during the European Colonization of New Zealand. By Harry C. Evison. Wellington/Christchurch: Aoraki Press, in association with Ngai Tahu Maori Trust Board and Te Tunanganui o Tahu, 1993. Pp. xxvi +582, with Foreword, Glossary, Historical maps, Illustrations, Appendices, Bibliography and Index. Price: $A60.
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Authors: Nihill Michael
Published: February 2015

Migration and Transformations: regional perspectives on New Guinea By Andrew J. Strathern and Gabriele Sturzenhofecker (Editors) Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press. 1994. Pp ix + 327. Price $59.95 (cloth); $19.94 (paper).
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Authors: Robinson Garry
Published: February 2015

Fighting Women: Anger and Aggression in Aboriginal Australia By V.K. Burbank. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1994. Pp xvi + 250. Price $US 35.00
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Authors: Morton Helen
Published: February 2015

Adolescent storm and stress: an evaluation of the Mead‐Freeman controversy. By James E. Côté Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994. Pp. xiv +186
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Authors: Kolig Erich
Published: February 2015

Wege zum Himmel: Katholiken, Siebenten‐Tags‐Adventisten und der Einfluss der traditionellen Religion in Pairudu, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. By H. Jebens. Mundus Reihe Ethnologie Bd. 86. Bonn: Holos Verlag, 1995. Pp. ix + 345. 55DM
Managing the Discourse of Resource Management: the Case of Sasi from ‘Southeast’ Maluku, Indonesia
Authors: Pannell Sandra
Published: February 2015

Co‐management of protected areas and renewable resources, with its focus upon local community involvement, is often proposed as some form of ‘magic cure’ for environmental ailments and social injustices. Notwithstanding the inherent romanticism of some of the proponents of management from ‘the bottom up’, there is a strong tendency to view this approach in overly utilitarian, ahistorical and often essentialist terms. In the process, the cultural, historical and political specificities and effects of this discourse are either neutralised or totally disregarded. While a number of authors have identified some of the limitations and problems associated with the implementation of community‐based, co‐management programmes, there is still a general reluctance to question the logic which informs and is constitutive of this discourse.

In this paper, I explore the discourse of resource management in relation to the varied practices and perceptions associated with and identified as sasi. This discussion of sasi focuses upon the island of Luang, and the 1800 or so people who inhabit this island located in the southern waters of the Banda sea. The environmental and economic circumstances of Luang make it an ideal context for the investigation of ‘community‐based, marine resource management’ strategies. However, while this context seems to comply with some of the truths produced by the discourse of resource management, in this paper I argue that the very canons of this discourse are placed at risk through people's enactment of their own projects and the expression of their own representations.
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Authors: Jarkey Nerida
Published: February 2015

Ergativity. By R.M.W. Dixon. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xxii + 271 Price: $A35.00
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Authors: Coulehan Kerin
Published: February 2015

A Death in the Tiwi Islands: Conflict Ritual and Social Life in an Australian Aboriginal Community. By Eric Venbrux. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii + 269. Price: $A29.95 Paperback, $A90.00 Hardback.
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Authors: Tomasetti Bill
Published: February 2015

Children of Kilibob: Creation, Cosmos, and Culture in Northeast New Guinea. Edited by Alice Pomponio, David R. Counts, and Thomas G. Harding. Pacific Studies (Special issue), Vol. 17, No 4. Laie, Hawaii: Brigham Young University, The Institute for Polynesian Studies. 1994. Pp. 216. Price: US$15.00.
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Authors: Davison Julian
Published: February 2015

Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth‐Century Headhunting Ritual. By Kenneth M. George. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1996. Pp xv + 354. Price US $18.00 (pb)
‘Mr Neville did all in [his] power to assist me’: A. P. Elkin, A. O. Neville and Anthropological Research in Northwest Western Australia, 1927–1928
Authors: Gray Geoffrey
Published: February 2015

From the commencement of his field research A. P. Elkin sought to bring a practical application to his work on Aborigines. He positioned anthropology as an enabling science which had the capacity to reduce conflict, violence and misunderstanding on the frontier. He stated that the ‘object of his mission [field work]’ was both ‘academic and practical’. He declared that the knowledge gained through anthropological field research would serve not only narrow academic aims but would also be put at the service of government. Anthropology's purpose was to inform and influence the formulation of government Aboriginal policy. This paper examines Elkin's first encounter and interaction with government through his relationship with A. O. Neville, chief protector of Aborigines in Western Australia. It illustrates the beginnings of what Gillian Cowlishaw has called a discourse of helping, that is Australian anthropologists in the 1930s constructed a discourse about their usefulness to government. It was a discourse which seemingly lacked critical distance from the policies of government. I argue that this discourse of helping government was heavily influenced by Elkin once he became professor of anthropology but it can be discovered in this earlier period. I conclude by discussing how the implications of this discourse were played out in the decade of the 1930s. The focus of this paper is on Elkin and his relationship with Neville and the consequences of this relationship for Elkin's later actions.
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Authors: Neumann Klaus
Published: February 2015

The Neglected War: The German South Pacific and the Influence of World War I. By Hermann Joseph Hiery. Honolulu: University of Hawai i Press, 1995. Pp. xvii + 388.
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Authors: Mimica Jadran
Published: February 2015

Children of the Blood: Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea By Bernard Juillerat (translated by Nora Scott) Explorations in Anthropology Series, A University College London Series; Oxford, New York: Berg, 1996. Pp, xxx+601, figures, maps, 33 b&w plates. Price $A 165.00.
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Authors: Elliott Jane
Published: February 2015

Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World By Johann Reinhold Forster. Edited by Nicholas Thomas, Harriet Guest and Michael Dettelbach University of Hawaii Press, 1996 Pp. xv–lv + 446 Price: $US55.00
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Authors: Bubandt Nils
Published: February 2015

Remaking Maluku. Social Transformation in Eastern Indonesia. Edited by D. Mearns and C. Healey. Special Monograph No. 1, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies. Darwin: Northern Territory University, 1996. Pp. xiii + 185.
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Authors: Lawrence Helen Reeves
Published: February 2015

Mission and Music: Jabêm Traditional Music and the Development of Lutheran Hymnody. By Heinrich Zahn. Translated by Philip W. Holzknecht. Edited by Don Niles. Boroko: Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1996. Pp. ciii + 492. Price K12.00
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Authors: Denoon Donald
Published: February 2015

Charles Abel and the Kwato Mission of Papua New Guinea, 1891–1975 By David Wetherell. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996. Pp xxviii + 247, notes, bibliography and index. ISBN 0 522 84736 6, Price: $24.95 (pb).
On Deer and Dolphins: Nage Ideas Regarding Animal Transformation
Authors: Forth Gregory
Published: February 2015

According to the Nage of eastern Indonesia, certain animals regularly transform into animals of another kind. Similar beliefs—specified here as notions of ‘contemporary zoological transformation’—have been documented for Malays and at least one other Indonesian society, as well as for the Kalam and Rofaifo of New Guinea. Referring to interpretations by ethnographers of these other societies, the paper analyses the Nage beliefs in regard to their connection with observation of zoological kinds. Attention is also given to their possible utilitarian value, connection with ethnozoological classification, and relation to similar yet distinct transformations encountered in myth and spiritual representations. Drawing on Atran's thesis (1990), it is concluded that Nage beliefs in contemporary animal transformation posit changes of essence and are in this sense counter‐intuitive. At the same time, certain ontological features demonstrate that the beliefs cannot be accommodated to a category of mythological or religious representations, and that in several respects they share more in common with modern scientific thought.
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Authors: Poitier Sylvie
Published: February 2015

Parle et je t'écouterai. Récits et traditions des Orokaïva de Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée. By A. Iteanu and E. Schwimmer. Paris: Gallimard, 1996. Pp. 260. Price: FF140.
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Authors: Urry James
Published: February 2015

Out Of Time. History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse. By Nicholas Thomas. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp xii, + 155. Price $US 18.95
Kia Tupato!1 Anthropologist at Work
Authors: Metge Joan
Published: February 2015

This paper outlines my involvement with Te Runanga o Murwhenua in the presentation of land claims before the Waitangi Tribunal. Reflecting on this experience, I stress the importance of keeping a running record of one's participation in such work; examine the propriety and motivation for getting involved; distinguish between different kinds of involvement and explore the challenges and problems implicit in the role of expert witness in a Tribunal setting.
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Authors: Norton Bob
Published: February 2015

Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific By Stephanie Lawson. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. x + 228
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Authors: Trompf Garry
Published: February 2015

Creation Through Death or Deception. By J.A. Z'Graggen. Edinburgh, Cambridge, Durham: The Pentland Pess Ltd., 1995. Pp. xii + 155, with glossary.
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Authors: Sloane Patricia
Published: February 2015

Matriliny and Modernity. Sexual politics and social change in rural Malaysia. By Maila Stivens. New South Wales, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1996. Pp. xiii + 316.
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Authors: Morieson John
Published: February 2015

Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia By Dianne Johnson. Oceania Monograph 47. Price A$35
Growing Knowledge in Bolivip, Papua New Guinea
Authors: Crook Tony
Published: February 2015

Knowledge practices in the Mountain Ok or Min area of Papua New Guinea have, since Fredrik Barth's pioneering Baktaman study, come to exemplify ‘secrecy’ in Melanesian ethnography and have consequently represented something of an enigma to anthropological interpretation. This paper reports research among the Angkaiyakmin of Bolivip village, Western Province, and addresses the problem posed by Min revelatory practices. The Barthian paradigm interprets awem as ‘secret knowledge’, and holds that revelations are restricted to infrequent performances of male initiation rituals which serve to manage the distribution of secrets exclusively among suitably qualified men. The Bolivip data, however, suggest that awem (glossed here as ‘important’) is more widely known, and conventionally revealed to women and junior initiates in hidden contexts. Through analysing the movements involved in composing efficacious forms by combining ‘halves' in Bolivip, and illustrating the comparison Angkaiyakmin draw between taro gardening and cult ritual, the paper argues for a reorientation of approaches to ‘secrecy’ and to conceptions of ‘knowledge’.
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Authors: HoëM Ingjerd
Published: February 2015

Rongorongo. The Easter Island Script. History, Traditions, Texts. (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). By Steven Roger Fisher. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. Pp. v + 714.
Women, Place and Practice in Vanuatu: a View from Ambae
Authors: Bolton Lissant
Published: February 2015

This paper discusses the relationship between people and place in Vanuatu, focusing on the relationship between women and place. The paper draws on ethnographic data from the island of Ambae, arguing that practice mediates the relationship between people and place, and, in the new context of the nation, has become a way of demonstrating a person's affiliation to place. In contemporary Vanuatu, kastom mediates and expresses place‐based identity. Landholding and land‐use are aspects of the practice of a place. The fact that a person's identity is tied to their place raises issues for the identity and status of women, who move at marriage to their husband's place. It remains the case, however that at marriage a woman becomes identified as a person of her husband's place, no matter whether she lives there or not. Ni‐Vanuatu women see their capacity to move and resettle in this way as a strength, a capacity of which they can be proud, and for which men respect them. The growth of urban centres since Independence is bringing new presssures to bear on the relationship between people, practice and place.
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Authors: Kapferer Bruce
Published: February 2015

Caging the Rainbow: Places, Politics, and Aborigines in a North Australian Town. By Francesca Merlan University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu 1998 Pp. 285 Price: US $26.95 (pb)
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Authors: Lawson Stephanie
Published: February 2015

Chieftainships in Southern Oceania: Continuity and Change. Edited by Toshimitsu Kawai Hyogo: Japan‐Oceania Society for Cultural Exchanges, 1998. Pp. xiv + 153
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Authors: Lawson Stephanie
Published: February 2015

Leadership in the Pacific Islands: Tradition and the Future Edited by Don Sinister, Peter Larmour and Karin von Strokirch Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1998. Pp.xi + 149.
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Authors: Townsend Patricia K.
Published: February 2015

The Ok Tedi Settlement: issues, outcomes and implications Edited by Glenn Banks and Chris Ballard Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 1997. Pp. xi + 279
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Authors: Morton Helen
Published: February 2015

Voyages: from Tongan villages to American suburbs. By Cathy A. Small. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1997. Pp.xi + 252 Price: US $45 (cloth) US $15.95 (paper).
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Authors: Westmacott Karen
Published: February 2015

Spirits Captured in Stone: Shamanism and Traditional Medicine Among the Taman of Borneo. By Jay H. Bernstein. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997. Pp. xiv + 209. Price: US $17.95
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Authors: Wootten Hal
Published: February 2015

Justice and the Maori: The Philosophy and Practice of Maori Claims in New Zealand since the 1970s. By Andrew Sharp. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. viii and 346 Price $45 (pb)
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Authors: Macdonald Gaynor
Published: February 2015

The Kamilaroi Lands: north‐central New South Wales in the early 19th century. By Michael O'Rourke. Griffith, ACT: Michael O'Rourke. 1997. Pp. 289, maps, plates, appendices, bibliog., index. Price: A$39.00
Dynamic and Flexible Aspects of Land and Marine Tenure at West Nggela: Implications for Marine Resource Management
Authors: Foale Simon , Macintyre Martha
Published: February 2015

At West Nggela, access to high value marine invertebrate stocks is controlled by consanguineal corporate groups holding primary rights (which include rights of exclusion) over reefs bearing these stocks. Disputes over primary rights appear to result in a breakdown in management practices, resulting in overfishing and severe depletion of stocks. An understanding of the common causes of disputes is therefore of considerable importance to marine resource management, and development, in this region.

This paper outlines first the essential, or ‘ideal’, processes of descent reckoning and property transfer that underpin the Customary Marine Tenure (CMT) system at West Nggela as they are presented to ‘outsiders’ such as government officials and anthropologists. It then deals with some of the many exceptions to this norm, and the ways these variations can contribute to disputes over primary rights to property. The pressures of economic development, and the resultant commodification of resources and property, in our view catalyse the conflict between the ideal, simplified model and the complexity of actual praxis in respect to property rights. Recent dramatic increases in the perceived value of many properties as a result of proposed lucrative developments may underlie present day conflicts which in the past would not have arisen. Examples are drawn from interview data as well as case studies of two formal property disputes which were heard in local courts at West Nggela in 1995.
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Authors: Filer Colin
Published: February 2015

Papua New Guinea: the struggle for development. By John Connell. London and New York: Routledge 1997 Pp. xiv + 354. Price: £52.50.
Review
Authors: Schoeffel Penelope
Published: February 2015

Theorizing Self in Samoa. Emotions, Genders and Sexualities. By Jeannette Marie Mageo. Ann Abor: The University of Michigan Press. 1998. Pp. xv + 292, glossary, ind., photographs.
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Authors: Filer Colin
Published: February 2015

Governance and Reform in the South Pacific. Edited by P. Larmour. Canberra: Australian National University, National Centre for Development Studies. (Pacific Policy Paper 23). 1998 Pp. 326pp.
Hindmarsh Revisited: Review Article
Authors: Rowse Tim
Published: February 2015

A review of two books: Diane Bell's Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: a world that is, was, and will be. North Melbourne: Spinifex 1998. Dulcie Wilson's The cost of crossing bridges. Mitcham: Small Poppies Publishing 1998
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Authors: Graham Penelope
Published: February 2015

Dissociated Identities: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in an Indonesian Society By Rita Smith Kipp. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. [xii] + 304 Price: US$22.95 (pb)
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Authors: Naepels Michel
Published: February 2015

Maurice Leenhardt. Le lien d'un homme avec un peuple qui ne voulait pas mourir. By Jean Guiart. Noumea: Le Rocher‐a‐la‐Voile. 1997. Pp. 156.

Jules Calimbre. Chronique de trois generations, trois femmes et trois maisons. By Jean Guiart Noumea: Le Rocher‐a‐la‐Voile. 1998. Pp. 162.
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Authors: Lukere Vicki
Published: February 2015

Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Ethnography. By Christina Toren. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Price: $pD16.99
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Authors: Sutton Peter
Published: February 2015

Archaeology and linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in global perspective. Edited by Patrick McConvell and Nicholas Evans. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 1997. Pp.xvi + 460 Price: $65.00
Review
Authors: McCall Grant
Published: February 2015

Paradise for sale. A parable of nature By Carl N. McDaniel and John M. Gowdy. Berkeley, University of California Press. 2000. Pp.xiv + 225
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Authors: Connor Linda
Published: February 2015

Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali: Fieldwork Photographs of Bayung Gede, 1936–1939. By Gerald Sullivan. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press 1999. (cloth), 213pp., 200 b/w plates, glossary, index. Price US$45
Oenpelli Kunwinjku Kinship Terminologies and Marriage Practices
Authors: Harvey Mark
Published: February 2015

This paper examines the kinship terminologies and marriage practices of Oenpelli Kunwinjku (Gunwinggu) owners/speakers. These terminologies and marriage practices have been presented as symmetrical, the standard pattern in Australia. This paper shows that first preference marriages are asymmetrical, which is rare in Australia. It further demonstrates that first preference marriages do not produce a transitive terminology, which is even rarer in Australia. Though these patterns are unusual, this paper shows that the Oenpelli Kunwinjku marriage practices accord in a number of important aspects with the marriage practices of owners/speakers of other languages with asymmetrical terminologies, such as the Yolngu (Murngin) terminologies. These common aspects to marriage practices and terminologies are to be understood in light of a more general analysis of the correlations between kinship terminologies, marriage practices, and the construction of ranges and regional identities in Australia. There is significant variation in Australia as to whether people express a predilection for narrow or wide ranges. This paper shows that there are non‐random correlations between predilections for particular types of range, marriage preferences, and types of terminologies. It also shows that terminologies and marriage preferences have a role in the construction of regional identities.
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Authors: Ramstedt Martin
Published: February 2015

Staying Local in the Global Village. Bali in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Raechelle Rubinstein and Linda H. Connor. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 1999. Pp. xiii + 353.
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Authors: Williams Nancy M.
Published: February 2015

Property Rights and Economic Development: Land and Natural Resources in Southeast Asia and Oceania Edited by Toon van Meijl and Franz von Benda‐Beckmann. London: Kegan Paul International, 1999 Pp. 295
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Authors: Harrison Simon
Published: February 2015

Reflections on violence in Melanesia. Edited by Sinclair Dinnen and Allison Levy. Annandale: Hawkins Press; and Canberra: Asia Pacific Press. 2000. Pp. xviii + 332.
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Authors: Craig Barry
Published: February 2015

Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents and Agency in Melanesia, 1870s–1930s. Edited by Michael O'Hanlon and Robert L. Welsch New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2000. Pp. xviii + 286. Illus. Price: US $69.95 (hardcover), US $25.00 (paperback).
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Authors: Rawlings Gregory E
Published: February 2015

Bridging Mental Boundaries in a Postcolonial Microcosm: Identity and Development in Vanuatu By William F S Miles. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 1998. pp. xxiv + 271. Price: US22.95 pb
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Authors: Biddle Jennifer L.
Published: February 2015

The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender and the Currency of Knowledge by Françoise Dussart. Washington and London: The Smithsonian Institute Press. 2000. Pp. xvi +269.
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Authors: Quigley Declan
Published: February 2015

Ritual, Power and Gender: Explorations in the Ethnography of Vanuatu, Nepal and Ireland By Michael Allen. New Delhi: Manohar & Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture. 2000. Pp. xiv + 377. Price: Indian Rs600
REVIEW
Authors: Griffin Chris
Published: February 2015

Confronting Fiji Futures Edited by A Haroon Akram‐Lodhi. Canberra: Asia Pacific Press at the Australian National University, 2000. Pp. xv+ 321 p. Price: $30
REVIEW
Authors: Norton Robert
Published: February 2015

Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonisation By John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan Chicago: University of Chicago Press.2001 Pp. xiv + 243 Price: US$18 pb
Review
Authors: Gardner Helen
Published: February 2015

Bad Colonists: The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker & Louis Becke by Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves Durham: Duke University Press, 1999 Pp. xxiii + 163 Price: US $16.95
Review
Authors: Scaglion Richard
Published: February 2015

Kastom or Komuniti: A Study of Social Process and Change among the Wam People, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea by Nigel A. Stephenson Basel: Wepf & Co. 2001. Pp. vi + 460 + 27 photos Price: CHF 80pb
Church Women's Groups and the Empowerment of Women in Solomon Islands
Authors: Scheyvens Regina
Published: February 2015

Throughout the Pacific, church women's groups play an important social and spiritual role in the lives of many indigenous women. However, these groups rarely attract the interest of development practitioners or theorists concerned with the empowerment of women, largely because of their outwardly conservative stance. Preoccupied with sewing classes, pastoral care, and social work, church women's groups appear to epitomize a welfare approach to women's development. Yet, while welfare concerns remain central to the activities of many such groups, by drawing on case studies from Solomon Islands in the period leading up to the onset of political crisis in 1999, this article demonstrates that a welfare approach does not preclude women's groups from engaging in strategic activities for the empowerment of women. Such activities include support for logging protests, workshops to affirm the importance of women's roles and develop their confidence, and opportunities for them to travel and expand their knowledge basis. Furthermore, the process of coming together to engage in welfare activities which many women enjoy greatly can provide opportunities for confidence‐building, income generation, and networking.
Review
Authors: Filihia Meredith
Published: February 2015

Maori Times, Maori Places: Prophetic Histories By Karen Sinclair Lanhma: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc. Pp xii + 272 Price $US 28.95
Review
Authors: Strang Veronica
Published: February 2015

Weather, Climate, Culture: Sarah Strauss and Ben Orlove (eds) Oxford, New York: Berg Publishers 2003. Pp:xviii +307.
Another Kind of Gold: an Introduction to Marijuana in Papua New Guinea
Authors: Halvaksz Jamon , Lipset David
Published: February 2015

Widespread as marijuana has become in Papua New Guinea (PNG), little ethnographic investigation has been done on problems raised by its cultivation, consumption and traffic there. In this essay, we survey the legal contexts of its production and circulation both in PNG and throughout the Pacific. We assess how the drug has been depicted in the regional literature. While our primary focus is on PNG, our point in offering these broader perspectives is to begin to outline political and comparative issues suggested by the arrival of this substance on Pacific shores. Our overall goal is to encourage rigorous and comprehensive discussion of the ambiguous relationship among society, the state and global capitalism that the drug constitutes, in addition to the many other, rather smaller‐scale problems raised in each of our four essays about the ongoing construction of and debate about its meaning at the local‐level.
In vitro comparative survey of cell adhesion and proliferation of human induced pluripotent stem cells on surfaces of polymeric electrospun nanofibrous and solution‐cast film scaffolds
Authors: Hoveizi Elham , Ebrahimi‐Barough Somayeh , Tavakol Shima , Nabiuni Mohammad
Published: February 2015

Extracellular matrix (ECM) components play a critical role in regulating cell behaviors. Interactions between ECM components and cells are important in various biological processes, including cell attachment, survival, morphogenesis, spreading, proliferation, and gene expression. In this study the in vitro responses of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) on polycaprolactone (PCL) electrospun nanofibrous scaffold were reported in comparison with those of the cells on corresponding solution‐cast film scaffold. Our results demonstrated that the nanofibrous scaffold showed better support for the attachment and proliferation of hiPSCs than their corresponding film scaffold. Consequently, we emphasize that hiPSCs can sense the physical properties and chemical composition of the materials and regulate their behaviors accordingly. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 103A: 2952–2958, 2015.
IL‐1ß and IL‐8 are scavenged by the hexadecylamide derivative of hyaluronic acid: A new mechanism
Authors: Oliviero Francesca , Scanu Anna , Ramonda Roberta , Frallonardo Paola , Sfriso Paolo , Dayer Jean‐Michel , Punzi Leonardo
Published: February 2015

This study aimed to investigate, using an in vitro model, the mechanisms involved in the effects linked to a novel hexadecylamide derivative of hyaluronic acid (HA), HYADD®4 (HS), on some inflammatory aspects related to the osteoarthritis process. The human leukemic monocytic cell line THP‐1 was stimulated with calcium pyrophosphate (CPP) crystals or lipopolysaccaride (LPS) and cultured in the presence of HS or two unmodified HAs (500–730 kDa and >1500 kDa, respectively). The effects of the three HA derivatives were compared by examining the inhibition of IL‐1ß and IL‐8 release, the phagocytic capacity of THP‐1, and HA's physical interference with the cytokines and their biological activity. Adding HS simultaneously with the stimuli led to a marked (nearly 100%) decrease in cytokine release and biological activity with respect to the two unmodified HAs. The effect was not altered when a CD44 function‐blocking monoclonal antibody was used. Incubation of the three derivatives with IL‐1ß and IL‐8 led to a reduced bioavailability of the cytokines in the medium in the presence of HS but not of unmodified HA. This study examines a novel mechanism inhibiting cytokine bioactivity. The HA hexadecylamide derivative was found to suppress, in vitro, the inflammatory response induced by CPP crystals and LPS by reducing the bioavailability of the two cytokines that were analyzed. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 103A: 2823–2829, 2015.
Biofunctionalizing devitalized bone allografts through polymer‐mediated short and long term growth factor delivery
Authors: Sharmin Farzana , Adams Douglas , Pensak Michael , Dukas Alexander , Lieberman Jay , Khan Yusuf
Published: February 2015

According to 5‐ and 10‐year clinical follow‐up studies large‐scale bone allografts have a high failure rate, largely due to poor allograft incorporation with adjacent bone and subsequent poor remodeling. The goal of this study was to develop a methodology to deliver growth factors from large‐scale bone allografts in a temporally controlled manner. Intact long bone allografts were coated with a micron‐scale thick layer of degradable polymer that maintained inherent pore structures and acted as a delivery vehicle for bone morphogenetic protein‐2 and vascular endothelial growth factor. VEGF was loaded onto the surface of the polymer to produce rapid release, to encourage initial vascularization at the defect site, while BMP‐2 was encapsulated within the polymer layer to promote a more sustained release, to encourage bone formation over time. Release kinetics from factor‐loaded polymer‐coated allografts show an early burst release of VEGF over the first 7 days followed by a more sustained release of BMP‐2 over the second and third week.In vitrocell studies using human mesenchymal stem cells confirm the bioactivity of the released BMP‐2.In‐vivoresults show robust bone formation over the first 8 weeks of healing in femoral segmental defects in rats implanted with BMP‐2 loaded polymer‐coated allografts. A microscale thin coating of degradable polymer on a large‐scale bone allograft provides temporal control over the delivery of growth factor loaded onto one allograft, while maintaining its microscale pore structure. Enhancing the incorporation and subsequent remodeling of allografts would reduce the incidence of allograft failure over time, and potentially speed healing at the earliest stages after implantation. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 103A: 2847–2854, 2015.
Determination of Meta‐Parameters for Support Vector Machine Linear Combinations
Authors: Jasial Swarit , Balfer Jenny , Vogt Martin , Bajorath Jürgen
Published: February 2015

Support vector machines (SVMs) are among the most popular machine learning methods for compound classification and other chemoinformatics tasks such as, for example, the prediction of ligand‐target pairs or compound activity profiles. Depending on the specific applications, different SVM strategies can be used. For example, in the context of potency‐directed virtual screening, linear combinations of multiple SVM models have been shown to enrich database selection sets with potent compounds compared to individual models. An open question concerning the use of SVM linear combinations (SVM‐LCs) is how to best weight the models on a relative scale. Typically, linear weights are subjectively set. Herein, preferred weighting factors for SVM‐LC were systematically determined. Therefore, weights were treated as meta‐parameters and optimized by machine learning to enrich data set rankings with highly active compounds. The meta‐parameter approach has been applied to 10 screening data sets and found to further improve SVM performance over other SVM‐LCs and support vector regression (SVR) models. The results show that optimal weights depend on data set characteristics and chosen molecular representations. In addition, individual models often do not contribute to the performance of SVM‐LCs. Taken together, these findings emphasize the need for systematic meta‐parameter estimation.
Hypnotics and mortality—partial confounding by disease, substance abuse and socioeconomic factors?
Authors: Kriegbaum Margit , Hendriksen Carsten , Vass Mikkel , Mortensen Erik Lykke , Osler Merete
Published: February 2015

Purpose

The aim of this Cohort study of 10 527 Danish men was to investigate the extent to which the association between hypnotics and mortality is confounded by several markers of disease and living conditions.

Methods

Exposure was purchases of hypnotics 1995–1999 (“low users” (150 or less defined daily dose (DDD)) or “high users” (151 or more DDD)). Follow‐up for all‐cause mortality was from 1 Jan 2000 to 19 June 2010. Cox proportional hazard models were used to study the association. Covariates were entered one at a time and simultaneously. Results were reported using hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI).

Results

When covariates were entered one at a time, the changes in HR estimates showed that psychiatric disease, socioeconomic position and substance abuse reduced the excess risk by 17–36% in the low user group and by 45–52% in the high user group. Somatic disease, intelligence score and cohabitation reduced the excess risk by 2–11% in the low user group and 8–24% in the high user group. When adjusting for all covariates, the HR was reduced to 1.22 95% CI (0.97–1.54) in the low user group and 1.43 95% CI (1.11–1.85) in the high user group.

Conclusions

The results of this study point at psychiatric disease, substance abuse and socioeconomic position as potential confounding factors partly explaining the association between use of hypnotics and all‐cause mortality. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
A simple saturated control framework for spacecraft with bounded disturbances
Authors: Jinchang Hu , Honghua Zhang
Published: February 2015

A simple control framework is proposed for the saturated attitude control of spacecraft subject to bounded disturbances. The framework is composed of three parts, that is, the quaternion part, the saturated angular velocity part, and the bounded anti‐disturbance part. The anti‐disturbance part can be different depending on the forms of disturbances. Based on a useful lemma, it can be proven that the saturation restriction on the angular velocity part can be removed in finite time, allowing us to analyze the closed‐loop stability by means of the Lyapunov theory. Two different saturated controllers are presented to exemplify the applications of the control framework. Finally, simulations are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controllers. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Robust passivity based resilient control for networked control systems with random gain fluctuations
Authors: Mathiyalagan K. , Lee Tae H. , Park Ju H. , Sakthivel R.
Published: February 2015

The problem of resilient
controller design for a class of networked control system based on passivity theory is presented. By using the Lyapunov–Krasovskii stability theory and linear matrix inequality approach, a set of sufficient conditions for the existence of state feedback controllers is derived. The networked control system under consideration is modeled by taking the network‐induced imperfections like packet dropouts and transmission delays as a single time‐varying delay. The controller is considered with a stochastic fluctuations in its gain matrix by using the Bernoulli distributed white sequence with time‐varying probability measures. The probability‐dependent sufficient conditions are established to guarantee the resulting closed‐loop system to be stochastically stable with a prescribed mixed
and passivity performance criterion. The results are expressed in the form of convex optimization problem subject to the set of LMIs, which can be easily solved by using some standard numerical packages. Finally, a numerical example by using the high‐incidence research model is presented to illustrate the effectiveness and applicability of the theoretical results. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Connecting to Communities: Powerful Pedagogies for Leading for Social Change
Authors: Wagner Wendy , Mathison Patricia
Published: February 2015

This chapter explores the use of powerful pedagogies such as service‐learning, cultural immersion, and community‐based research to enhance leadership development. Four key principles are presented that describe how leadership educators can facilitate community‐based learning in a way that creates an optimal learning environment for students, while also engaging ethically with individuals and organizations in the community.
Formative Assessment as an Effective Leadership Learning Tool
Authors: Garrett J. Matthew , Camper Jill M.
Published: February 2015

Formative assessment can be a critical and creative practice in leadership education and significantly enhance student learning, leader development, and leadership development. This chapter seeks to frame the use of assessment as both a best practice in leadership education and as an integral component to effective leadership learning pedagogy.