History, Memory, and Nation in the (Post)Colonies

Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization. John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 243 pp.
Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific. Jeannerte Marie Mageo. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. 222 pp.
In Colonial New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives. Naomi M. McPherson. ed. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 264 pp.     

An Ethnology of the Admiralty Islands: The Alfred Bühler Collection, Museum der Kulturen, Basel

An Ethnology of the Admiralty Islands: The Alfred Bühler Collection, Museum der Kulturen, Basel. Sylvia Ohnemus. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, and Bathhurst, Australia: Crawford House Press, 1998.430pp.     

Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands

Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands. Bill Maurer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 301 pp.     

Pragmatic Women and Body Politics and Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific

Pragmatic Women and Body Politics. Margaret Lock and Patricia A. Kaufert. eds. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii +364 pp.
Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific. Kalpana Ram and Margaret Jolly. eds. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv. 305 pp.     

An Unsolved Murder on Melville Island

Death in the Tiwi Islands: Conflict, Ritual and Social, Life in an Australian Aboriginal Community. Eric Venbrux. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 270 pp.     

Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes: The Islands of the Sun and the Moon

Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes: The Islands of the Sun and the Moon. Brian S. Bauer and Charles Stanish. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.330 pp.     

Black Diversity in New York City: West Indians, Haitians, African Americans

Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York. Nancy Foner. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.312 pp.
Trends in Ethnic Identification among Second-Generation Haitian Immigrants to New York City. Flore Zephir. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 248 pp.     

Book reviews

RAFFAELE, H.A. (1989): A Guide to the Birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Revised Ed., Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. 254 pp, maps of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, 41 plates (24 in full colour), checklists and detailed maps of important sites, paperback, $ 15.95 (hardcover $ 39.50).

HORWELL, D. (1988): Galapagos ‐ the enchanted isles. Dryad Press, London. Batsford Books. 64 pp., many figs, and black‐and‐white photographs, Hardcover £ 8.95.     

Recent Theory in Highland New Guinea

Identity Work: Constructing Pacific Lives. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern. eds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. 216 pp.
Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History. Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2000. 216 pp.
Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern. with contributions by Ien Courtens and Dianne van Oosterhout. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 156 pp.     

Tradition versus Democracy in the South Pacific

Tradition versus Democracy in the South Pacific. Stephanie Lawson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 228 pp.     

Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom: Historical Archaeology of the East End Community, St. John, Virgin Islands

Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom: Historical Archaeology of the East End Community, St. John, Virgin Islands . Douglas V. Armstrong. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 448 pp.     

South Pacific Oral Traditions

South Pacific Oral Traditions. Ruth Finnegan and Margaret Orbell. eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.259 pp.     

No Nation Is an Island: Language, Culture, and National Identity in the Faroe Islands

No Nation Is an Island: Language, Culture, and National Identity in the Faroe Islands. Tom Nauerby. North Atlantic Monographs, 3. Århus, Denmark: SNAI-North Atlantic Publications; distributed by Arhus University Press, 1996. 237 pp.     

Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific

Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific. Lenore Manderson and Margaret Jolly. eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 367 pp.     

Land, Custom and Practice in the South Pacific

Land, Custom and Practice in the South Pacific, R. Gerard Ward and Elizabeth Kingdon. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 290 pp.     

Tourism, Ethnicity and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies

Tourism, Ethnicity and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies. Michel Picard and Robert E. Wood .eds.Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.260 pp.     

Japan's Alternative Modernity in a Globalizing World

Japan and Its Others: Globalization, Difference, and the Critique of Modernity. John Clammer. Japanese Society Series. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2001. 272 pp.
Individual Dignity in Modern Japanese Thought: The Evolution of the Concept of Jinkaku in Moral and Educational Discourse. Kyoko Inoue. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2001. 262 pp.
Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron. Harumi Befu. Japanese Society Series. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2001. 181 pp.     

Island cultures and ecosystems: down with harmony, up with pondfields

Historical Ecology in the Pacific Islands edited by Patrick V. Kirch and Terry L. Hunt Yale University Press, 1997. $30.00 hbk (xvii+331 pages) ISBN 0 300 06603 1.     

An American Anthropologist in Melanesia: A. B. Lewis and the Joseph N. Field South Pacific Expedition, 1909–1913

An American Anthropologist in Melanesia: A. B. Lewis and the Joseph N. Field South Pacific Expedition, 1909–1913. Robert L. Welsch. ed. and annotator. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 1998. Vol. l, xxi. 632pp.; Vol.2,268pp.     

Complementary Angles and Inclusive Perspectives: Rounding Out Integrative Views of Material Culture

Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean . Eli Barta, ed. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 244 pp.
Clothing the Pacific . Chloë Colchester. Oxford: Berg, 2003. 215 pp.
Wedding Dress across Cultures . Helen Bradley Foster and Donald Clay Johnson, eds. Oxford: Berg, 2003. 227 pp.