REVIEWS

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

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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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.     

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.     

REVIEW

The Empty Place: Poetry, Space and Being Among the Foi of Papua New Guinea. By James F. Weiner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1991. Pp. 218. Price $US14.95.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Substantial Justice: An Anthropology of Village Courts in Papua New Guinea by Michael Goddard Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal People on Sydney's Georges River. By Heather Goodall and Alison Cadzow . Contesting Native Title By David Ritter The Native Title Market By David Ritter Melanesian Odysseys: Negotiating the self, narrative and modernity. By Lisette Josephides . Tattooing in the Marshall Islands. By Dirk H. R. Spennemann The Warm Winds of Change: Globalisation in Contemporary Sāmoa. By Cluny and La'avasa Macpherson In God's Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity. By Matt Tomlinson A CRITIQUE: Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability and the Aftermath of Empire. Edited by Patricia McAnany and Norman Yoffee     

Review

Modern Papua New Guinea. Edited by Laura Zimmer‐Tamakoshi. Kirksville, Missouri: Thomas Jefferson University Press. 1998. Pp: vi + 424. Price: $40 cloth, $25 paper.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Meaning of Whitemen: race and modernity in the Orokaiva cultural world By Ira Bashkow . Pathways to Heaven. Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea. By Holger Jebens Culture in Translation: The anthropological legacy of R. H. Mathews Aboriginal History Monograph 15 By R. H. Mathews . Edited by Martin Thomas Gender, Christianity and Change in Vanuatu: An Analysis of Social Movements in North Ambrym By Annelin Eriksen Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia Edited by Katie Glaskin, Myrna Tonkinson, Yasmine Musharbash and Victoria Burbank Proto Mirndi: a discontinuous language family in northern Australia By Mark Harvey . Dancing from the Heart. Movement, Gender and Cook Islands Globalisation By Kalissa Alexeyeff Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali. By J. Stephen Lansing . Inventing Easter Island By Beverley Haun Embodying Modernity and Post‐Modernity: Ritual, Praxis, and Social Change in Melanesia By Sandra Bamford (ed.)     

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.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: An Ethnography of Stress: the social determinants of health in Aboriginal Australia: By Victoria Katherine Burbank Dreams, Madness, and Fairy Tales in New Britain: By Andrew Lattas Anthropological Futures: By Michael M. J. Fischer. From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea: By Paige West     

REVIEW

Alternative Strategies for Papua New Guinea. Edited by Anthony Clunies Ross and John Langmore. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. viii + 263. Price (papercovers) $5.70.     

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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).     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article: The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City. By Nicole Loraux. Translated by Alan Sheridan. The Avignon Papacy and the Crusades, 1305–1378. By Norman Housley. The Hussite Revolution. 1424.1437. By F. M. Barto?. Edited and translated by John M. Klassen. Edward Stafford: Third Duke of Buckingham, 1478–1521. By Barbara J. Harris. Social Mobility in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Europe and America in Comparative Perspective. By Hartmut Kaelble. Tories and Democrats: British Diplomats in Pre-Jacksonian America. By William H. Masterson. The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England. By Neville Kirk. Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-Century France. By Sharon Kettering. The Third Republic Defended: Bourgeois Reform in France, 1880–1914. By Sanford Elwitt. The Military Life of Frederick the Great. By Christopher Duffy. Workers in Imperial Germany: The Miners of the Ruhr. By S. H. F. Hickey. A History of Ukraine. By Michael Hrushevsky. Edited by O. J. Frederiksen. The Day They Almost Bombed Moscow: The Allied War in Russia 1918–1920, By Christopher Dobson and John Miller. Utopia In Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present. By Mikhail Heller and Aleksandr Nekrich. Translated by Phyllis B. Carlos. Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825. [Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 126.1 By Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England. By Harry S. Stout. Anthony Wayne: Soldier of the Early Republic. By Paul David Nelson. Thomas Jefferson, Lawyer. By Frank L. Dewey. A Machine That Would Go of Itself. By Michael Kammen. Foreign Policy in the Early Republic: The Law of Nations and the Balance of Power. By Daniel George Lang. Toleration and the Constitution. By David A. J. Richards. Educating Republicans: The College in the Era of the American Revolution, 1750–1800. By David W. Robson. “Let the Eagle Soar!” The Foreign Policy of Andrew Jackson., By John M. Belohlavek. Indian Traders of the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Panton, Leslie & Company and John Forbes & Company, 1783–1847. By William S. Coker and Thomas D. Watson. A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics. By Amy Bridges. “The best school in the world”: West Point, the pre-Civil War years, 1833–1866. By James L. Morrison Jr. Abraham Lincoln and the American Political Tradition. Edited by John L. Thomas. The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln. By Mark E. Neely Jr. and R. Gerald McMurtry. Lincoln's Lee: The Life of Samuel Phillips Lee, United States Navy, 1812–1897. By Dudley Taylor Cornish and Virginia Jeans Laas. Chattanooga: A Death Grip on the Confederacy. By James Lee McDonough. The Legal Fraternity and the Making of a New South Community, 1848–1882. By Gail Williams O'Brien. The Party Period and Public Policy: American Polities from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era. By Richard L. McCormick. “The Last of American Freemen”: Studies in the Political Culture of the Colonial and Revolutionary South. By Robert M. Weir. Slavery and Race in American Popular Culture. By William L. Van Deburg. Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military. By Bernard C. Nalty. The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society. By Judith Stein. Killings: Folk Justice in the Upper South. By William Lynwood Montell. Reform in America: The Continuing Frontier. By Robert H. Walker. Railroads and the Character of America, 1820–1887. By James A. Ward. Memphis in the Great Depression. By Roger Biles. The US. Economy in World War II. By Harold G. Vatter. The Life and Times of James Willard Schultz (Apikuni). By Warren L. Hanna. Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West. By Joseph C. Porter. An American Odyssey: The Autobiography of Robert Brownlee. Edited by Patricia A. Etter. Land Fever: Dispossession and the Frontier Myth. By James M. Marshall. At Home on the Range: Essays on the History of Western Social and Domestic Life. [Contributions in American History, No. 108.1 Edited by John R. Wunder. Prime Cut: Livestock Raising and Meatpacking in the United States, 1607–1983. By Jimmy M. Skaggs. The Chief: Ernest Thompson Seton and the Changing West. By H. Allen Anderson. The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness. By Michael P. Cohen. New School: A History of the New School for Social Research. By Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott. Imperialism and Idealism: American Diplomats in China, 1861–1898. By David L. Anderson. Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917–1921. [New American Nation Series.] By Robert H. Ferrell. The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility and Command. By Burton I. Kaufman. The Myth of the Revolution: Hero Cults and the Institutionalization of the Mexican State, 1920–1940. [Contributions to the Study of World History, Number 1.] By Ilene V. O'Malley. National Geographic: Behind America's Lens on the World. By Howard Abramson.     

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.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Henry V: The Practice of Kingship. Edited by G. L. Harriss. Union to Reform: A History of the Parliamentary Representation of Wales 1536 to 1832. By Arnold J. James and John E. Thomas. The Parliament of England 1559–1581. By G. R. Elton. The Stuart Constitution: Documents and Commentary. Second Edition. Edited and introduced by J. P. Kenyon. Peers, Politics and Power: The House of Lords 1603–1911. Edited by Clyve Jones and David Lewis Jones. Politics and Ideology in England 1603–1640. By J. P. Sommerville. Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640–1660. By G. E. Aylmer. England's Rise to Greatness 1660–1763. Edited by Stephen B. Baxter. A Fractured Society: The Politics of London in the First Age of Party, 1688–1715. By Gary Stuart De Krey. Virtue, Comtnerce and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefy in the Eighteenth Century. By J. G. A. Pocock. The London Diaries of William Nicolson Bishop of Carlisle 1702–1718. Edited by Clyve Jones and Geoffrey Holmes. Memoirs of King George 11. By Horace Walpole. Gladstone 1809–1874. By H. C. G. Matthew. The Harlot and the Statesman: The Story of Elizabeth Armitstead and Charles James Fox. By I. M. Davis. Political Communications: The General Election of 1983. Edited by Ivor Crewe and Martin Harrop.     

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.     

Reviews

Book reviews in this article: The Architecture of Scottish Government. From Kingship to Parliamentavy Democracy. By Miles Glendinning, with contributions from Aonghus MacKechnie and Richard Orarn and an appendix by Athol Murray. Gangraena and the Strugle for the English Revolution. By Ann Hughes. Ruling Ireland, 1685–1742. Politics, Politicians and Parties. By D.W. Hayton. The Atterbury Plot. By Eveline Cruickshanks and Howard Erskine‐Hill. Arts and Arms. Literature, Politics and Patriotism During the Seven Years War. By M. John Cardwell. Literature, Politics and Patriotism During the Seven Years War. By M. John Cardwell. Benjamin Disraeli Letters. Volume VII: 1857–1859. Edited by M.G. Wiebe, Mary S. Millar, Ann P. Robson and Ellen L. Hawman. The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951–64. Old Labour, New Britain? By Lawrence Black. Conservative Governments, Morality and Social Change in Affluent Britain, 1957–64. By Mark Jarvis. New Labour's Past. The Labour Party and its Discontents. By James E. Cronin. New Labour at the Centre. Constructing Political Space. By Andrew Hind‐moor.     

REVIEWS

Kokospalmenmenschen: Boden und Alltag und ihre Bedeutung im Selbstverständnis der Abelam von Kimbangwa (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea). By B. Huber-Greub. Basel: Basler Beiträge zur Ethnologie vol 27. 1988. Pp. xvi + 356 + plates/maps.