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The Introduction of Provincial Government in Papua New Guinea: Lessons from Bougainville. By Diana Conyers. Discussion Paper No. 1. Boroko (Papua New Guinea), New Guinea Research Unit. April, 1975. Pp. 54 + iv. Price: 1 Kina, ($A1).     

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Collective Violence. Edited by James F. Short, Jr., and Marvin E. Wolfgang. Ancient Polynesian Society. By Irving Goldman. New Guinea Highlands Pidgin: Course Materials. By S. A. Wurm. Materials in New Guinea Pidgin (Coastal and Lowlands). By Don Laycock. Land Tenure and Economic Development. Problems and Policies in Papua-New Guinea and Kenya. Marion M. Ward (editor).     

Review

The Song to the Flying Fox: The Public and Esoteric Knowledge of the Important Men of Kandingei about Totemic Songs, Names and Knotted Cords (Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea). By Jurg Wassmann. (Apwitihire: Studies in Papua New Guinea Musics, Don Niles, ed.; vol. 2) Boroko, Papua New Guinea: Cultural Studies Division, The National Research Institute, 1991. Pp. xxi+313. Price: Kina 6.50.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Le Sabbat des Lucioles: Sorcellerie, chamanisme et imaginaire cannibale en Nouvelle‐Guinée. [The Sabbath of the fireflies: Sorcery, Shamanism and the Cannibal Imaginary in New Guinea]. By Pierre Lemonnnier Les tambours de l'oubli. La vie ordinaire et cerémonialle d'un peuple forestier de Papouasie. Drumming to forget. Ordinary life and ceremonies among a Papua New Guinea Group of Forest‐dwellers. By Pascale Bonnemere and Pierre Lemonnier. The Severed Snake: Matrilineages, Making Place, and a Melanesian Chritianity in Southeast Solomon Islands. By Michael W. Scott Acts of Integration, Expressions of Faith: Madness, Death and Ritual in Melanau Ontology By Ann L. Appleton     

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Forms of Symbolic Action. Edited by R. F. Spencer. The Interpretation of Ritual. Edited by J. S. La Fontaine. The Curse of Souw: Principles of Daribi Clan Definition and Alliance in New Guinea. By Roy Wagner. The Politics of Dependence—Papua New Guinea 1968. A. L. Epstein, R. S. Parker and M. Reay (Eds.). Fighting with Food: Leadership, Values and Social Control in a Massim Society. By Michael W. Young. Proisxozdenie i Rannjaja istorija Aborigenov Avstralii. (Origin and Early History of the Aborigines of Australia.) By V. R. Kabo. The Army in Papua-New Guinea. The Journal of Pacific History. Vol. 6. J. W. Davidson and H. E. Maude (Eds.) Would-be Entrepreneurs. By Ruth S. Finney.     

REVIEW

Papua New Guinea: the struggle for development. By John Connell. London and New York: Routledge 1997 Pp. xiv + 354. Price: £52.50.     

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Storytracking. Text, stories, and histories in Central Australia. By Sam D Gill . Reason and Passion. Representations of gender in a Malay society. By Michael G. Peletz . They Make Themselves: Work and Play among the Baining of Papua New Guinea By Jane Fajans . Rethinking Visual Anthropology Edited by Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy . Not Even Wrong: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman and the Samoans. By Martin Orans . Anyan's Story. A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds. By Virginia Watson . Simbu Plant-Lore: Plants used by the People in the Central Highlands of New Guinea By Joachim Sterly . Vernacular Christianity Among the Mulia Dani: An Ethnography of Religious Belief Among the Western Dani of Irian Jaya. Indonesia. By Douglas James Hayward .     

Reviews

A Thousand Graduates: Conflict in University Development in Papua New Guinea, 1961–1976. By Ian Howie-Willis Aboriginal Power in Australian Society. Edited by Michael C. Howard Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea. By Gilbert H. Herdt., ed. Introduction by R. M. Keesing Resource Managers: North American and Australian Hunter-Gatherers. Edited by Nancy M. Williams and Eugene S. Hunn Gregory Bateson: The Legacy of a Scientist. By David Lipset Through a Glass Darkly: Beer and Modernization in Papua New Guinea. Edited by M. Marshall Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World. By James Clifford Ok Tedi: the Pot of Gold. By Richard Jackson Who shall succeed? Agricultural development and social inequality on a Philippine frontier. By James F. Eder One Man Cannot Rule a Thousand: Fission in a Ponapean Chiefdom. By Glen Peterson     

Catholic missions in the Caroline and Marshall Islands: A survey of historical materials

The Majesty of Colour: A Life of Sir John Bates Thurston. Volume One. I, The Very Bayonet. By Deryck Scarr. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1974. 370 pp, $10.95.

Passage, Port and Plantation: A History of Solomon Islands Labour Migration 1870–1914. By Peter Corris. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1973. 201 pp, 59.95.

Bougainville: a personal history. By Douglas Oliver. Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1973. 231 pp.

The Settlement of Polynesia: A Computer Simulation. By Michael Levison, R. Gerard Ward and John W. Webb. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1973. 137 pp, $10.75.

The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade. By William T. Wawn. Edited by Peter Corris. Pacific History Series: No. 5. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1973, xlviii, 474 pp, $9.95.

Holy Man. Father Damien of Molokai. By Gavan Daws. New York, Harper and Row, 1973. xl +. 293 pp, illus. $US8.95.

Rangiroa, Parente Etendue, Résidence et Terres dans un Atoll Polynésien. By Paul Ottino. Paris, Ed. Cujas, 1972. 530 pp, 37 figs et trois annexes.

Land Between Two Laws. Early European Land Acquisitions in New Guinea. By Peter G. Sack. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1973. 197 pp, $7.50.

The Chimbu: A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands. By Paula Brown. London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1973. 151 pp, £3.25.

Man in the Pacific Islands. Essays on Geographical Change in the Pacific Islands, Edited by R. Gerard Ward. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972. 328 pp, illus., index, $A16.20.

Big‐Men and Business: Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in the New Guinea Highlands. By Ben R. Finney. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1973. xix, 206 pp, $7.95.

Da Kine talk: from Pidgin to standard English in Hawaii. By Elizabeth Ball Carr. Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1972. xvii, 191 pp, $US8.50.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Trading Nature: Tahitians, Europeans and Ecological Exchange: By Jennifer Newell Claude Lévi‐Strauss: the poet in the laboratory: By Patrick Wilcken A Certain Age: colonial Jakarta through the memories of its intellectuals.: By Rudolf Mrázek Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia.: Edited by Michael Dove, Percy Sajise and Amity Doolittle Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands: Studies in Form, Meaning, and Sociocultural Context: Edited by Alan Rumsey and Don Niles Villagers and the City. Melanesian Experiences of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.: By Michael Goddard (ed.) The Many Worlds of R.H.Mathews: in Search of an Australian anthropologist: By Martin Thomas     

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Private Politics: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to ‘Big-man’ Systems. Edited by Martin A. van Bakel, Renée R. Hagesteijn and Peter van de Velde . The Politics and Finance of Provincial Government in Papua New Guinea. By Norman Bonney . Torres trait Islanders: Custom and Colonialism. By J. Beckett . Aging and Its Transformations: Moving Towards Death in Pacific Societies. Edited by Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R. Counts . Gender and Society in the New Guinea Highlands: an Anthropological Perspective on Antagonism Towards Women. By Marilyn G. Gelber . An Introduction to Aboriginal Societies. By W.H. Edwards . Cosmologies in the Making: a Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea. By Fredrik Barth . Cultural Models in Language and Thought. Edited by D. Holland and Naomi Quinn . Leslie A. White: Ethnological Essays. Edited by Beth Dillingham and Robert L. Carneiro . Wetan Fieldnotes: Some Eastern Indonesian Texts with Linguistic Notes and a Vocabulary. By J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong . The Heart of the Pearlshell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality. By James F. Weiner . Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890. By David Hanlon . Copra Marketing and Price Stabilization in Papua New Guinea. A History to 1975. By Harry H. Jackman . Wealth of the Solomons: a History of a Pacific Archipelago, 1800–1978. By Judith A. Bennett . An Account in Two Volumes of Two Voyages to the South Seas. By Jules S-C. Dumont D'Urville — Translated and edited by Helen Rosenman . Connections: Essays on Black Literatures. Edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson . Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text. By Brian Morris . Human Resources Development in the Pacific. Edited by C.D. Throsby . Intimations of Infinity: The Mythopoeia of the Iqwaye Counting System and Number. By Jadran Mimica . La Dernière Isle. By Joel Bonnemaison .     

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The New Guinea Villager: A Retrospect from 1964. By C. D. Rowley. Published by F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1965. Pp. 1–225. Price $A5.     

BOOKS RECEIVED

Hal B. Levine and Marlene Wolfzahn Levine. Urbanization in Papua New Guinea: A Study of Ambivalent Townsmen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. 160 pp. $21.50.

T. J. May, ed. Change and Movement: Readings on Internal Migration in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Australian National University Press, for Papua New Guinea Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1978. xii + 284 pp. $21.95, Aust.     

The Antarctic problem

Pioneering in New Guinea. By James Chalmers. London : The Eeligious Tract Society, 1887. Price 16s.

Australian Defences and New Guinea. Compiled from the Papers of the late Sir Peter Scratchley, R.E., K.O.M.G. By C. Kinloch Gooke, B.A., L.L.M., Barrister‐at‐Law. London : Macmillan, 1887. Price 14s.

Shores and Alps of Alaska. By H. W. Seton Kaee, F.R.G.S. Pp. xiv. + 248. London : Sampson Low and Co., 1887. Price 16s.

The Ancient Cities of the Neiv World, being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America, from 1857–1882. By Désiré Charnay. With numerous Illustrations. Translated from the French by J. Gonino and Helen S. Conant. London : Chapman and Hall, 1887. Pp. xxxii. and 514.

Report on the Administration of the Punjab and its Dependencies for 1885–86. Lahore, 1887.

Précis de Géographic Élémentaire. Par Paul Chaix. Onzième. Édition, revue et modifiée. Geneva : Cherbuliez. 1887.

Lonqmani New Geographical Readers: The Seventh Reader.—The Ocean, Currents, Tides, the Planetary System, and Phases of the Moon. London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. Price 18. 9d.     

REVIEW

Business and Cargo: Socio-economic Change among the Nasioi of Bougainville. By Eugene Ogan. New Guinea Research Bulletin No. 44, Australian National University, Port Moresby and Canberra. Pp. x, 207; 6 plates, 3 maps. $A1.50.     

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Middle Wahgi Dictionary. By Evelyn M. Ramsey. Church of the Nazarene, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea. 1975. 457 pp.     

Anthropology and the Artifacts of Medical Practice

Brown, Paula. Beyond a Mountain Valley: The Simbu of Papua New Guinea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. xix + 296 pp. including notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $36.00 cloth.

Tuzin, Donald. The Cassowary's Revenge: The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiii + 256 pp. including notes, maps, references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.

Biersack, Aletta, ed. Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. xiv + 440 pp. including collected bibliography, other works cited, and index. $59.50 cloth.     

Race,Culture, and an Anthropological Disconnect Between Teaching and Practice

Shirley Lindenbaum. Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands. Palo Alto: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1979. xii + 174 pp.

Karl G. Heider. Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors. New York: Holt, Rinehan and Winston, 1979. x + 149 pp.     

Texts and Contexts

The Pacific Way: A Memoir. By Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. xvi, 280 pp, maps, photos, index, gloss., apps. ISBN 0824818938. $US14.95 (paperback).

A Vision for Change: A. D. Patel and the Politics of Fiji. By Brij V. Lal. Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, The Australian National University, 1998. xvii, 282 pp, map, photos, index, refs. ISBN 073152350. $A25 (paperback).

Hard Times on Kairiru Island: Poverty, Development, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village. By Michael French Smith. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1994. x, 278 pp, map, tables, photos, app., notes, gloss., bibliog, index. ISBN 0824815815.

Neither Cargo nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji. By Martha Kaplan. Durham, Duke University Press, 1995. xviii, 226 pp, maps, bibliog., index. ISBN 0822315785.

Footsteps in the Sea: Christianity in Oceania to World War II. By John Garrett. Suva and Geneva, Institute of Pacific Studies in association with World Council of Churches, 1992. 514 pp, maps, plates, bibliog. ISBN 9820200687. $US13.95 pb.

Where Nets Were Cast Christianity in Oceania Since World War II. By John Garrett. Suva and Geneva, Institute of Pacific Studies in association with World Council of Churches, 1998. 499 pp, maps, plates, bibliog. ISBN 9820201217. $US13.95pb.

Double Ghosts. Oceanian Voyagers on Euroamerican Ships. By David A. Chappell. Arrnonk, New York and London, M. E. Sharpe, 1998. xix, 231 pp, illus., notes, bibliog., index. ISBN 1563249987.

Living Tradition: A Changing Life in Solomon Islands. As told by Michael Kwa'ioloa to Ben Burt. London, British Museum Press, 1998. vi, 169pp. ISBN 0714125334.

The Cassowary's Revenge: the Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society. By Donald Tuzin. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiii, 256 pp, bibliog., index, plates, maps. ISBN 0226819515.

Political Decentralisation in a Mew State: The Experience of Provincial Government in Papua Mew Guinea. Edited by R. J. May and A. J. Regan with A. Ley. Bathurst, Crawford House Publishing, 1998. xii, 431pp (paper).

Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Lenore Manderson and Margaret Jolly. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xii, 367pp. ISBN 0226503046 (paper), 0226503038 (cloth).

Hannah Dudley: Hamari Maa. By Morven Sidal. Suva, Pacific Theological College [1998]. viii, 144 pp, appendix.

Great Powers and the Wider World. By John Dunbabin. London and New York, Longman, 1994. Two vols, 513 and 549pp respectively, indexes. £44 and £42 hardback; £17.99 and £16.99 paperback.

Trading Beyond the Mountains: the British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793–1843. By Richard Somerset Mackie. Vancouver, UBC Press, 1998. 444 pp, figs, maps, tables, bibliog., index. ISBN 0774805595. $29.95.

Beyond a Mountain Valley, The Simbu of Papua New Guinea. By Paula Brown. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1995. 296pp. ISBN 082481701X.     

Intersections: history,memory, discipline. By Brij V. Lal. Lautoka

Bellona Island Beliefs and Rituals. By Torben Monberg. Pacific Islands Monograph Series No. 9. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1991. xix, 449 pp, figs, genealogies, maps, photos, tables, bibliog., index. $US42.

Te Waimana, The Spring of Mana: Tuhoe History and the Colonial Encounter. By Jeffrey Sissons. Te Whenua Series No. 6, Pacific People, Land, and Literature. Dunedin, University of Otago Press, 1991. xiv, 304 pp; maps, photos, figs, gloss., bibliog., index. ISBN 0–908569–59–9. $NZ39.95.

Labour in the South Pacific. Edited by Clive Moore, Jacqueline Leckie and Doug Munro. Townsville, James Cook University, 1990. 335 pp, maps, tables, bibliog., index.

Health and Healing in Tropical Australia and Papua New Guinea. Edited by Roy MacLeod and Donald Denoon. Townsville, James Cook University, Department of History and Politics and Centre for Melanesian Studies, 1991. xviii, 213 pp, intro., notes, bibliog., index. $A16 ($A25 outside Australia including postage).

Beach‐la‐Mar to Bislama: the emergence of a national language in Vanuatu. By Terry Crowley. Oxford Studies in Language Contact. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990. xxi, 422 pp. $A120.

The Mundugumor: From the Field Notes of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune. By Nancy McDowell. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. xiii, 337 pp.

Singer in a Songless Land: A Life of Edward Tregear 1846—1931. By K, R. Howe. Auckland, Auckland University Press, 1991. 241 pp. $NZ39.95.

The Empty Place: Poetry, Space and Being among the Foi of Papua New Guinea. By James S. Weiner. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1991. xiv, 218 pp, maps, illus., bibliog., index.

On the Margins of History: From the Punjab to Fiji. By Oskar Spate. History of Development Studies 3. Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1991. 142 pp, app. $25.