Mosko, Mark S(University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2007)
Anthropologists and others have recently argued that Papua New Guineans’ contemporary patterns of consumption including Western clothing fashions have become critical components of commodification, modernization, globalization, ...
Connell, John(University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2007)
Constructing national identity has proved difficult in the Pacific, especially in Fiji where there are significant ethnic divisions. The “People” column in the Fiji Times has provided a populist focus on “good citizens” ...
Poltorak, Michael(University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2007)
The people of Vava‘u, Tonga, manage to deal with most incidences of “mental illness” without resorting to institutionalization or overt stigmatization. The terms used to describe unusual behavior, though pejorative in the ...
Firth, Stewart(University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2007)
Globalization is having its most transformative effects in the Pacific in three areas of economic and political life: trade, labor, and security. The global move from protection to free trade has reached the Pacific and ...