VOLUME 6 . NUMBER 2

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The Contemporary Pacific

A Journal ofIsland Affairs

Volume 6 . Number 2

Fall 1994

CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES

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Contents

ARTICLES

Cities of Parts, Cities Apart? Changing Places in ModernMelanesia

john Connell and john Lea 267

The New Tribe: Conflicts and Continuities in the SocialOrganization of Urban Maori

Roger C. A. Maaka 3II

The Federated States of Micronesia's 1990 ConstitutionalConvention: Calm before the Storm?

Glenn Petersen 337

Royal Backbone and Body Politic: Aristocratic Titles and CookIslands Nationalism since Self-Government

jeffrey Sissons 371

DIALOGUE

In Whose Face? An Essay on the Work of Alan DuffChristina A. Thompson

Thy Kingdom ComeEpeli Hau'ofa

POLITICAL REVIEWS

397

The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 1993Stephen Henningham 429

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Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1993John Moffat Fugui, Stephen Henningham, Brij V. Lal,Franyois Sodter, Michael Wate, Terence Wesley-Smith 438

BOOK REVIEWS

Pacific Islands History: Journeys and Transformations,edited by Brij V. Lal

Reviewed by Patricia Grimshaw 468

Footsteps in the Sea: Christianity in Oceania to World War II,by John Garrett

Reviewed by David Wetherell 470

Ethnographic Presents: Pioneering Anthropologists in thePapua New Guinea Highlands, edited by Terence E. Hays

Reviewed by Chris Ballard 474

Just Talk: Gossip, Meetings, and Power in a Papua NewGuinea Village by KarenJ. Brison

Reviewed by Andrew Arno 476

Between Culture and Fantasy: A New Guinea HighlandsMythology, by Gillian Gillison

Reviewed by Stephen C. Leavitt 479

Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self,and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village, by Don Kulick

Reviewed by Suzanne Romaine 481

Diplomas and Thatch Houses: Asserting Tradition in aChanging Micronesia, by Juliana Flinn

Reviewed by Suzanne Falgout 483

Culture and Democracy in the South Pacific, edited byRon Crocombe, Uentabo Neemia, Asesela Ravuvu, andWerner vom Busch

Reviewed by Jocelyn Linnekin 485

The Political Economy ofSmall Tropical Islands:The Importance ofBeing Small, edited by Helen M. HintjensandMalynD. D. Newitt

Reviewed by William C. Clarke 487

Development that Works! Lessons from Asia-Pacific,edited by A. Crosbie Walsh

Reviewed by Antony Hooper 49I

The United States and the Pacific Islands, by John C. DorranceReviewed by Stephen Henningham 493

The South Pacific Foreign Affairs Handbook, by Steve HoadleyReviewed by Richard A. Herr 495

THE PACIFIC ISLANDS 497

CONTRIBUTORS 499