TCP [The Contemporary Pacific], 2010 - Volume 21, Number 2
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Item type: Item , Index to Volumes 11-20(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Rensel, Jan; Tamaira, Marata; Humbert, JudithItem type: Item , Review of Penina Uliuli: Contemporary Challenges in Mental Health for Pacific Peoples, edited by Philip Cultbertson, Margaret Nelson Agee, and Cabrini ‘Ofa Makasiale(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Hezel, Francis X, S.J.Item type: Item , Review of Morning Comes So Soon [feature film](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Dvorak, GregItem type: Item , Review of Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report, by Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly M Barker(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Kahn, MiriamItem type: Item , Review of Nā Kua‘āina: Living Hawaiian Culture, by Davianna Pomaika‘i McGregor(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Turnbull, PhyllisItem type: Item , Review of Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands, edited by Sinclair Dinnen and Stewart Firth(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Frazer, IanItem type: Item , Review of We Fought the Navy and Won: Guam's Quest for Democracy, by Doloris Coulter Cogan(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Viernes, James PerezItem type: Item , Review of The Future of Tokelau: Decolonizing Agendas 1975-2006, by Judith Huntsman with Kelihiano Kalolo(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Hoëm, IngjerdItem type: Item , Review of Une pirogue pour le Paradis: Le culte de John Frum à Tanna (Vanuatu), by Marc Tabani(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Mondragón, CarlosItem type: Item , Review of House-Girls Remember: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu, edited by Margaret Rodman, Daniela Kraemer, Lissant Bolton, and Jean Tarisesei(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Jolly, MargaretItem type: Item , Review of Bridging Our Sea of Islands: French Polynesian Literature within an Oceanic Context, by Kareva Mateata-Allain(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Lyons, PaulItem type: Item , Solomon Islands in Review: Issues and Events, 2008(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Lenga, RoselynItem type: Item , Papua New Guinea in Review: Issues and Events, 2008(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Kantha, SolomonItem type: Item , New Caledonia in Review: Issues and Events, 2008(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Chappell, DavidItem type: Item , Fiji in Review: Issues and Events, 2008(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Fraenkel, JonItem type: Item , Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2008(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Chappell, David; Fraenkel, Jon; Kantha, Solomon; Lenga, RoselynItem type: Item , The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2008(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Maclellan, NicItem type: Item , Remembering Greg Dening(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Hanlon, David, editor; Finney, Ben; Sahlins, Marshall; Hanlon, David; Diaz, Vicente M.; Teaiwa, Katerina Martina; Dvorak, GregItem type: Item , Sustainability of the Kava Trade(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Pollock, Nancy J.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.Item type: Item , Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and the Emergence of Middle Classes in Tonga(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009) Besnier, NikoThe 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.