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An Assessment of the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty

Tairea, Aukino (1986)
Beyond “the English Method of Tattooing”: Decentering the Practice of History in Oceania

Hanlon, David (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2003)

Questions abound as to the very nature and meaning of history in contemporary Oceania. Much conventional scholarship in the Euro-American world continues to focus on the search for a single, knowable, verifiable past. The ...
Biau Kula: Space, Process, and Creativity at the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture, with DVD (A Tour of the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture)

Higgins, Katherine (2007)
The Care of South Pacific Artifacts

Burns, Barbara J. (1983)
Conspiracy, Class, and Culture in Oceania: A View from the Cook Islands

Sissons, Jeffrey (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 1998)
Cultural Studies for Oceania

Wood, Houston (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2003)

A new research perspective is emerging in Oceania, one based on combining practices drawn from both Pacific Islander and continental cultures. This emerging perspective, here labeled “cultural studies for Oceania,” differs ...
The Elusive Quest for Small States in International Relations: Security and the Pacific Island Nation-States

Bissonette, Andrew D. (1992)
From Po to Ao: A Historical Analysis of Filmmaking in the Pacific

Mawyer, Alexander D. (1997)
German Colonial Policy in the Pacific Islands: Origin, Determinants and Implementation

Henning, Rodney M. (1983)
Imagining Oceania: Indigenous and Foreign Representations of a Sea of Islands

Jolly, Margaret (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2007)

This paper considers the relation of indigenous and foreign in how “the Pacific” and the “Pacific Rim” have been and are imagined. First, I ponder the power of cartography through the lens of two maps derived from the ...
Japanese Aid to Pacific Island States

Edo, Junko (1986)
Moving Masculinities: Memories and Bodies Across Oceania

Jolly, Margaret (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2008)

Past studies of Oceanic masculinities have tended to see masculinity in the singular, through the lens of unchanging cultural traditions, wherein types of men were iconic of cultural differences. This special issue considers ...
The Ocean in Us

Hau'ofa, Epeli (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 1998)
Pacific Island Nations: The Wave of the Future

Miller-Eisenpress, Ursula (1995)
Political and Economic Self-Determination in the South Pacific: The Significance of Constitutional Status in Post-Colonial Relations in the Pacific: Some Aspects of Aid, Trade, and Regionalism

Low, Sau C. (1989)
Pro-Annexationist Propaganda in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser 1898

Spock Rhiyyih (1998)
The "Sea of Little Islands": Examining Micronesia's Place in "Our Sea of Islands"

Hanlon, David (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2009)

Paul Rainbird has written on the assumed absence of certain cultural practices that informed Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville’s identification of Micro- nesia as a definable and major area of the Pacific. What ...
Swept Around the Sphere: Inside and Outside Pacific Islands Studies

Yamauchi, Chikako (2007)
Three Competing Research Perspectives for Oceania

Wood, Houston (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2006)

Three research perspectives are currently competing in Oceania. A disciplinebased perspective still dominates, though ever fewer people believe that disciplines produce superior forms of knowledge. An alternative, ...
Winds of Change A High School Curriculum in Pacific Islands Studies

Czar, Kathryn (1995)