Romaine, Suzanne(University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 1995)
This paper compares the use of two Pacific creole languages, Tok Pisin in Papua
New Guinea and Hawai'i Creole English in the Hawaiian Islands, as written languages
in a literary or poetic function. Although both languages ...
Rubinstein, Donald H(University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 1995)
Youth suicide has reached epidemic proportion in Micronesia over the past two
decades. Suicides display remarkable cultural patterning in the typical actors,
methods, motivational themes, and precipitating social scenarios. ...
Goddard, Michael(University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 1995)
This article critiques analyses that interpret gang crime, or "rascalism," in Papua
New Guinea as an underclass phenomenon. Illustrative sketches of gang members'
lifestyles and expressed attitudes toward their own criminal ...
Mane-Wheoki(University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 1995)
The recontextualization of Maori art from anthropological museum artefact
to aesthetic art object-the shift in its perception as belonging, not to a dead or
dying culture, but to a living and developing indigenous ...