The Contemporary Pacific

A Journal of Island Affairs

Volume 9 • Number 1

Spring 1997

CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES

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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I PRESS

The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairsis abstracted or indexed in Abstracts on Rural Develop-ment in the Tropics, Anthropological Index, CAB Inter-national, Current Military and Political Literature,Hawaii Pacific Journal Index (UHCARL), InternationalBibliography of the Social Sciences, International Cur-rent Awareness Services, Sociological Abstracts, andUnCover (CARL).

Cover: Forked ancestor post from south Malekula,Vanuatu, now in Museum für Völkerkunde, Basel.Height, 140 cm. Redrawn by Barbara Pope from Mate-rials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient andTribal Art, volume 2, edited by Edmund Carpenter,with drawings by Kathleen Kitsos (New York: RockFoundation, 1986).

Journal design by Barbara Pope

Cartography by Manoa Mapworks, Honolulu,Hawai‘i

© 1997 by University of Hawai‘i Press. All rightsreserved. Manufactured in the United States of America.

Second printing 1998

issn 1043–898x

The paper used in this publication meets the mini-mum requirements of American National Standard forInformation Sciences—Permanence of Paper for PrintedLibrary Materials, ansi z39.48–1984.

Special Issue

Logging the Southwestern Pacific: Perspectivesfrom Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, andVanuatu

Edited by Kathleen Barlow and Steven Winduo

The reprinting of this issue was made possible by the generous contri-butions of the following units of the University of Minnesota: mucia(Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities) LiaisonOffice; College of Liberal Arts; MacArthur Program for Peace andInternational Cooperation; and the Anthropology Department.

Contents

articles

IntroductionKathleen Barlow and Steven Winduo 1

Forest Exploitation in Papua New GuineaSimon Saulei 25

The Struggle for Control of Solomon Island ForestsIan Frazer 39

Changing Forestry Regimes in Vanuatu: Is Sustainable Management Possible?

Ralph Regenvanu, Stephen W Wyatt, and Luca Tacconi 73

Regional Dynamics and Conservation in Papua New Guinea: The Lakekamu River Basin Project

Stuart Kirsch 97

Incremental Agroforestry: Enriching Pacific LandscapesWilliam C Clarke and Randolph R Thaman 121

dialogue

Regulating the Forest Industry in Papua New Guinea: An Interview with Brian D Brunton

Brian D Brunton and Kathleen Barlow 149

Solomon Island Nongovernment Organizations: Major Environmental Actors

John Roughan 157

resources

Logging the Southwestern Pacific: Bibliographic Review EssayJamon Halvaksz and Elizabeth Hochberg 167

political reviews

Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 1995 to30 June 1996

Jim Hess, Samuel F McPhetres, Donald R Shuster,Michael Skully 196

Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 1995 to30 June 1996

Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe, Ron Crocombe,Kerry James, Stephen Levine, Margaret Mutu,Karin Von Strokirch, Michael Zdanovich 218

book reviews

Prophets of Agroforestry: Guarani Communities and Commercial Gathering, by Richard K Reed

Reviewed by Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez 262

In Place of the Forest: Environmental and Socio-Economic Transformation in Borneo and the Eastern Malay Peninsula, by Harold Brookfield, Lesley Potter, and Yvonne Byron

Reviewed by Christine Padoch 263

The Tree and the Canoe: History and Ethnogeography of Tanna, by Joël Bonnemaison. Translated and adapted by Josée Pénot-Demetry

Reviewed by Brian Murton 265

To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plenitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain, by Thomas Maschio

Reviewed by Robert J Foster 268

Neither Cargo nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji, by Martha Kaplan

Reviewed by Eugene Ogan 270

Strangers in Their Own Land: A Century of Colonial Rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands, by Francis X Hezel, sj

Reviewed by Lin Poyer 272

Destiny’s Landfall: A History of Guam, by Robert F RogersReviewed by Anne Perez Hattori 275

Die Grosse Insel: Südpazifische Lebensgeschichten. Autobiographische Berichte aus dem südöstlichen Salomon-Archipel seit 1914, by Doris Byer

Reviewed by Rainer Buschmann 277

Woven Gods: Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma,by Vilsoni Hereniko

Reviewed by William E Mitchell 279

The Samoa Islands: An Outline of a Monograph with Particular Consideration of German Samoa, volume 2: Material Culture, by Augustine Kramer

Reviewed by Mâlama Meleiseâ 282

Indigenous Literature of Oceania: A Survey of Criticism and Interpretation, by Nicholas J Goetzfridt

Reviewed by Arlene Griffen 284

Pacific 2010: Urbanisation in Polynesia, by John Connell and John P Lea

Reviewed by Jenny Bryant-Tokalau 286

Sustainable Development or Malignant Growth? Perspectives of Pacific Island Women, edited by‘Atu Emberson-Bain

Reviewed by Penelope Schoeffel 288

Speaking to Power: Gender and Politics in the Western Pacific, by Lynn B Wilson

Reviewed by Teresia K Teaiwa 290

After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements, edited by Gyan Prakash

Reviewed by David Hanlon 295

the pacific islands 300

contributors 301

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