The Contemporary Pacific

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2 The Contemporary Pacific A Journal of Island Affairs Volume 9 Number 2 Fall 1997 CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES & UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI I PRESS

3 The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs is abstracted or indexed in Abstracts on Rural Development in the Tropics, Anthropological Index, CAB International, Current Military and Political Literature, Hawaii Pacific Journal Index (UHCARL), International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, International Current Awareness Services, Sociological Abstracts, and UnCover (CARL). Cover: Solomon Islands kapkap. Turtleshell over clamshell. Collection of the Melanesian Mission, Auckland Museum, New Zealand. Drawing by Barbara Pope from a photograph in Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient and Tribal Art, volume 1, book 2, illustration number 940, edited by Edmund Carpenter (New York: Rock Foundation, 1986). Journal design by Barbara Pope Cartography by Manoa Mapworks, Honolulu, Hawai i 1997 by University of Hawai i Press. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. issn x The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z

4 Contents the pacific islands vi articles Framing the Islands: Knowledge and Power in Changing Australian Images of the South Pacific Greg Fry 305 Continuity and Constraint: Reconstructing the Concept of Tradition from a Pacific Perspective James West Turner 345 The Call of the Kererû: The Question of Customary Use Sean Weaver 383 dialogue The Right to Misrepresent Donald Denoon 400 Empowering Imaginations Greg Dening 419 Tradition in the Politics of the Pacific: Interviews with Simione Durutalo and Bishop Patelesio Finau Rory Ewins 430 political reviews The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 1996 Karin von Strokirch 448 Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1996 David Ambrose, Chris Ballard, David A Chappell, Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka, Sandra Tarte, Terence Wesley-Smith 458

5 book reviews Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia, edited by Robert J Foster Reviewed by Geoffrey M White 508 Tradition versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa, by Stephanie Lawson Reviewed by Stephen I Levine 510 Land, Custom and Practice in the South Pacific, edited by R Gerard Ward and Elizabeth Kingdon Reviewed by John Overton 513 The Pacific Island States: Security and Sovereignty in the Post Cold War World, by Stephen Henningham Reviewed by John Henderson 515 Beyond a Mountain Valley: The Simbu of Papua New Guinea, by Paula Brown Reviewed by Bill Standish 518 White Australia Defied: Pacific Islander Settlement in North Queensland, by Patricia Mercer Reviewed by Stephen T Boggs 521 Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific: Essays Presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday, edited by Richard Feinberg and Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo Reviewed by Lamont Lindstrom 523 They Came for Savages: 100 Years of Tourism in Melanesia, by Ngaire Douglas Reviewed by Eric Kline Silverman 525 Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind, edited by Jeannette Marie Mageo and Alan Howard Reviewed by John Barker 527 Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia: Mortuary Ritual, Gift Exchange, and Custom in the Tanga Islands, by Robert J Foster Reviewed by Ton Otto 529

6 Altering Imagination, by Subramani Reviewed by Sandra Tawake 532 Chroniques Kanak: L Ethnologie en Marche, by Alban Bensa Reviewed by David A Chappell 535 La présence kanak, by Jean-Marie Tjibaou; produced and presented by Alban Bensa and Éric Wittersheim Reviewed by Eric Waddell 538 contributors 541