Recently added articles from Oceania:
Resisting RAMSI: intervention, identity and symbolism in Solomon Islands.(Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands)(Essay)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The act of colonisation imposed upon the politically fragmented and linguistically and culturally diverse peoples of Solomon Islands a monolithic set of foreign laws and customs. In many parts of the islands, most famously on the densely populated island of Malaita, these laws were ...
Keeping the network out of view: mining, distinctions and exclusion in Melanesia.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... In an earlier series of discussions on Melanesian property rights, (1) it was argued that Western ownership strategies tend to promote rights based on exclusion, while Melanesian strategies generally seek to expand the possibilities for inclusion. James Carrier (1998) rightly raised ...
Frontier journeys. Fore experiences on the kuru patrols.(scientific patrols)
Mar 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION [My] first patrol was with Carleton [Gajdusek]. We ... spent three nights in the bush. Our food supply ran out in the three days that we walked. We picked breadfruit and a banana that grows slow ... we steamed them in bamboo and ate that for food. We took pandanus ...
Welcome to country ... not.(Darug people's land claims)(Essay)
Mar 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION What does it mean when Australian institutions include Indigenous representations of identity and ownership in official ceremonies which are also claims to national identity and ownership? Are local councils, state and federal governments, and private enterprise ...
On self and licensed solitude: 'That very private fella, me.'.(Essay)
Mar 01, 2009; ... 'Identity is intrinsically associated with all the joinings and departures of social life. To have an identity is to join with some and depart from others, to enter and leave social relations at once.' (Gregory P. Stone, 1962:9) LICENSED SOLITUDE Stone's ...