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Five Centuries of Settlement Dynamics and Mobility in the Northern Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua
Dylan Gaffney, Daud Tanudirjo, Laura Arnold, Wolter Gaman, Tristan Russell, Erlin Djami & Abdul Macap
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Decolonizing Regional Politics in Oceania: Re-examining the Historical Record
Stephanie Lawson
Published online: 05 May 2024
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Making Local Sense of a Global Disease: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Guam
Anne Perez Hattori
Published online: 16 Apr 2024
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The Story of Fai‘ota: Resolving an Ancient Conflict in Malaita, Solomon Islands
John Omani & Ben Burt
Published online: 16 Apr 2024
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Remembering the Medical Tultul of Papua New Guinea
Alfred L. Scherzer
Published online: 27 Mar 2024
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Looking for Lost Proficiency in East Polynesian Voyaging Traditions and Ethnology
Atholl Anderson
Published online: 25 Mar 2024
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Obituary
Walter Niel Gunson (1930–2023)
Phyllis S. Herda
Published online: 20 Mar 2024
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Geschichtlos No More: The Trans-imperiality of German Colonial Expertise
Südsee-Schriften: Lebenserinnerungen und Tagebücher. By Franz Hernsheim. Edited by Jakob Anderhandt. Hamburg, Die Südsee Bibliothek, 2019. 316 pp., maps, index. ISBN 9783749728879 (pbk). €19.80.Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, Imperialism and the League of Nations. By Sean Andrew Wempe. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019. xiv + 288 pp., index. ISBN 9780190907211 (hbk). £68.00Im Schatten Humboldts: Eine tragische Geschichte der deutschen Ethnologie. By H. Glenn Penny. Translated by Martin Richter. Munich, C.H. Beck, 2019. 287 pp., maps, images, index. ISBN 9783406741289 (hbk). €12.95
Viktor M. Stoll
Published online: 20 Feb 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea; The Transition to Self-government, 1970–1972; Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea; The Push to Independence, 1972–1975
Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea; The Transition to Self-government, 1970–1972. Edited by Bruce Hunt and Stephen Henningham. Canberra, UNSW Press, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2020. liv + 932 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, index. ISBN 9781742237176 (hbk), 9781742249681 (ePDF). AU$89.99 (hbk).; Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea; The Push to Independence, 1972–1975. Edited by Bruce Hunt and Stephen Henningham. Canberra, UNSW Press, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2020. lix + 1242 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, index. ISBN 9781742237572 (hbk), 9781742239552 (ePDF). AU$89.99 (hbk).
Stephanie Lawson
Published online: 16 Jan 2024
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Robert Philp and the Politics of Development
By Lyndon Megarrity. North Melbourne, Victoria, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2022. 335 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 9781922669865 (pbk). AU$49.95.
Zach Wallis
Published online: 16 Jan 2024
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The Gallows of Girmit (1886–1919)
Margaret Mishra
Published online: 24 Dec 2023
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A Fish Named Tahiti: Myths and Power in Ancient Polynesia (Tahiti, Ra‘iātea, Hawai‘i, Aotearoa New Zealand)
By Bruno Saura, translated by Lorenz Gonschor. Punaauia, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme du Pacifique, 2021. 306 pp., bibliography. ISBN 9782493616012 (pbk). US$20.00.
Vehia Wheeler
Published online: 24 Nov 2023
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Queen Kaʻahumanu of Hawaiʻi: A Biography
By Thomas W. Goodhue. Jefferson, McFarland & Company, Inc., 2022. vi + 178 pp., glossary, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 9781476684987 (pbk), 9781476645179 (ebook). US$39.95 (pbk), US$17.99 (ebook).
Kale Kanaeholo
Published online: 19 Nov 2023
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Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa
By Holger Droessler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2022. 304 pp, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 9780674263338 (hbk). US$41.00.
Victoria Stead
Published online: 08 Nov 2023
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Book Review
The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands
Edited by Graeme Smith and Terence Wesley-Smith. Acton, ANU Press, 2021. xvi + 504 pp. ISBN 9781760464165 (print), 9781760464172 (online). AU$77.00 (print), view online/download free of charge.
Hayoun Ryou-Ellison
Published online: 08 Aug 2023
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