http://hdl.handle.net/10125/15402 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:03:26 GMT 2013-05-21T19:03:26Z http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18532 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18532 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Rensel, Jan; Tamaira, Marata; Humbert, Judith http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18531 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18531 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hezel, Francis X, SJ http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18530 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18530 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Dvorak, Greg http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18529 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18529 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Kahn, Miriam http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18528 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18528 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Turnbull, Phyllis http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18527 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18527 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Frazer, Ian http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18526 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18526 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Viernes, James Perez http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18525 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18525 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hoëm, Ingjerd http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18524 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18524 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mondragón, Carlos http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18523 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18523 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Jolly, Margaret http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18522 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18522 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyons, Paul http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18521 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18521 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Lenga, Roselyn http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18520 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18520 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Kantha, Solomon http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18519 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18519 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Chappell, David http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18518 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18518 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Fraenkel, Jon http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18517 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18517 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Chappell, David; Fraenkel, Jon; Kantha, Solomon; Lenga, Roselyn http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18516 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18516 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Maclellan, Nic http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18515 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18515 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hanlon, David, editor; Finney, Ben; Sahlins, Marshall; Hanlon, David; Diaz, Vicente M; Teaiwa, Katerina Martina; Dvorak, Greg http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18514 Sustainability of trade in kava, which was severely compromised by a 2002 ban on exports from Pacific Islands to European pharmaceutical companies, has reached a new phase. Exporters vigorously fought the ban, imposed as a result of claims that kava pills, sold as herbal remedies for reducing anxiety, sleeplessness,and depression, were toxic to the liver of individuals who took them. Concerted reaction by Pacific interests such as the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat led to the formation of the International Kava Executive Committee, which sought ways to get the ban lifted. A 2007 World Health Organization report found that the process of manufacturing the pills was more likely to be toxic to some pill takers than the kavalactones drunk in traditional beverages; quality control and changing the manufacturing process could allow exports of kava to Europe to resume. Meanwhile, alternative outlets for sales of kava have been growing, which may help to sustain the kava trade and provide an income for farmers. Expanding Pacific Islander communities in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States are using kava to maintain identity ties to their homelands, such as Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, and Pohnpei. In parallel, sales of kava within local communities are increasing through markets, nakamal, and kava cafes, and Web sites promote the product. These tracks for sustaining kava trade will need further development throughout the Pacific region, and beyond. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18514 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Pollock, Nancy J http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18513 The formation of social classes in Pacific Islands societies and in their diasporas continues to raise theoretical questions about the nature of social classes and their relationship to prior forms of social organization. In Tonga, middle classes both reproduce aspects of the older rank-based system with which they continue to coexist and innovate new forms of acting and being, many of which emerged with the diasporic explosion of the society. While “middle-classness” is fragile and shifting, it is constituted by four important characteristics: an intense awareness of the extralocal; a valorization of consumption; multiple modes of livelihood; and the commoditization of structures of reciprocity. These characteristics form a basis for comparison of Tongan middle classes with non–middle classes locally and with middle classes in other societies of the Pacific and beyond. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18513 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Besnier, Niko