Contemporary Pacific Societies : Studies in Development and Change Book

	Tables and Figures
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	An Introduction to Contemporary Pacific Societies	1
Sect. I	The Colonial Legacy and Nation Building
	Introduction	19
2	Tonga's Contemporary Globalizing Strategies: Trading on Sovereignty amidst International Migration	21
3	Imagining a Nation: Race, Politics and Crisis in Post-Colonial Fiji	34
4	The Law of the State and the State of the Law in Vanuatu	55
5	New Political Statuses in American Micronesia	67
6	Welfare State Colonialism in Rural French Polynesia	81
Sect. II	Markets, Development, and Capitalism
	Introduction	99
7	From the Stone Age to the Age of Corporate Takeovers	102
8	Pigs, Pearlshells, and 'Women's Work': Collective Response to Change in Highland Papua New Guinea	117
9	The Cult of Custom Meets the Search for Money in Western Samoa	135
10	The Samoan Exodus	156
11	Keeping Options Open: Copra and Fish in Rural Vanuata	171
12	Some Pohnpei Strategies for Economic Survival	185
13	Education Is Development on a Ten-Acre Island	197
Sect. III	Identity, Community, and Social Relations
	Introduction	217
14	Migration, Urbanization, and Rural-Urban Links: Toaripi in Port Moresby	219
15	The Historical Course of True Love in the Sepik	233
16	The Fist, the Stick, and the Bottle of Bleach: Wife Bashing and Female Suicide in a Papua New Guinea Society	249
17	A Pacific Haze: Alcohol and Drugs in Oceania	260
Sect. IV	Religious Experience and Worldview
	Introduction	273
18	Melanesian Cargo Cults	275
19	The Brokers of the Lord: The Ministration of a Christian Faith in the Sepik Basin of Papua New Guinea	289
20	Christmas on Ujelang: The Politics of Continuity in the Context of Change	304
21	The Maori Tradition of Prophecy: Religion, History and Politics in New Zealand	321
	References	335
	Contributors	361
	Index	366