the contempor ary pacific a journal of island affairs volume 14 number 1 SPRING 2002
The Contemporary Pacific A Journal of Island Affairs Volume 14 Number 1 Spring 2002 C E N TER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES & U NIVER S ITY OF HAWAI I PR E S S
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C o n t e n t s the pacific islands vi a rt i c l e s Christian Citizens: Women and Negotiations of Modernity in Vanuatu Bronwen Douglas 1 Mining and the Environment in Melanesia: Contemporary Debates Reviewed Glenn Banks 39 Freeport and the Suharto Regime, 1965 1998 Denise Leith 69 Time Traces: Cultural Memory and World War II in Pohnpei James West Turner and Suzanne Falgout 101 d i a l o g u e Women of the New Millennium: Tongan Women Determine Their Development Direction Clare Bleakley 134 Making History, Becoming History: Reflections on Fijian Coups and Constitutions Brij V Lal 148 From the Sideline: An Interview with Brij V Lal, Historian and Constitutional Commissioner Vilsoni Hereniko 168 political reviews Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2001 Samuel F McPhetres, Joakim Peter, Donald R Shuster, Kristina E Stege 186
Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2001 Frédéric Angleviel, Kerry James, Margaret Mutu, Asofou So o, Karin von Strokirch 213 book and media reviews Pacific Forest: A History of Resource Control and Contest in Solomon Islands, c. 1800 1997, by Judith A Bennett Islands of Rainforest: Agroforestry, Logging and Ecotourism in Solomon Islands, by Edvard Hviding and Tim Bayliss-Smith Feature Review by Kathleen Barlow 244 The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia, edited by Brij V Lal and Kate Fortune Reviewed by Miriam Kahn 249 On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, by Patrick Vinton Kirch Reviewed by Christophe Sand 251 The People Trade: Pacific Island Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865 1930, by Dorothy Shineberg Reviewed by Jacqueline Leckie 253 The Typhoon of War: Micronesian Experiences of the Pacific War, by Lin Poyer, Suzanne Falgout, and Laurence Marshall Carucci Reviewed by Anne Perez Hattori 255 Fiji before the Storm: Elections and the Politics of Development, edited by Brij V Lal Reviewed by Sandra Tarte 257 Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea, by Sinclair Dinnen Reviewed by Michael Goddard 261 Governance in Samoa: Pulega i Samoa, edited by Elise Huffer and Asofou So o Reviewed by Stephanie Lawson 263 Property Rights and Economic Development: Land and Natural Resources in Southeast Asia and Oceania, edited by Toon van Meijl and Franz von Benda-Beckmann Reviewed by Stuart Kirsch 265
Dilemmas of Development: The Social and Economic Impact of the Porgera Gold Mine 1989 1994, edited by Colin Filer Reviewed by Dan Jorgensen 268 Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature, b y Carl N McDaniel and John M Gowdy Reviewed by Scott Kroeker 271 Identity Work: Constructing Pacific Lives, edited by Pamela J Stewart and Andrew Strathern Reviewed by Verena Keck 274 Topics in Polynesian Language and Culture History, by Jeff Marck Reviewed by Alexander Dale Mawyer 276 Displacing Natives: The Rhetorical Production of Hawai i, by Houston Wood Reviewed by J Këhaulani Kauanui 279 Ethnologie et Architecture: Le Centre Culturel Tjibaou, une réalisation de Renzo Piano, by Alban Bensa Reviewed by Peter Brown 281 Papers from Ivilikou: Papua New Guinea Music Conference and Festival (1997), edited by Don Niles and Denis Crowdy Reviewed by Regis Stella 284 H u l a, H a k a, H o ko! An Introduction to Po lynesian D a n c i n g, by Ad and Lucia Linkels Reviewed by Randie K Fong 286 Breadfruit, by Célestine Hitiura Vaite Reviewed by Lili Tuwai 288 Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands Reviewed by John E Hay 291 Chea s Great Kuarao Reviewed by Craig Severance 293 c o n t r i b u to rs 297