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OCE Oceania --- Bougainville Island --- Oceania --- Orchidaceae --- Solomon Islands --- Southeast Asia --- catalogue

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The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what

Ethnology --- Matrilineal kinship --- Sex role --- Bougainville Island Region (Papua New Guinea) --- Social life and customs. --- History --- Autonomy and independence movements.

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How can fragmented, divided societies that are not immediately compatible with centralised statehood best adjust to state structures? This book employs both comparative constitutional law and comparative politics, as it proposes the idea of a 'constituent process', whereby public participation in constitution making plays a positive role in state building. This can help to foster a sense of political community and produce a constitution that enhances the legitimacy and effectiveness of state institutions because a liberal-local hybrid can emerge to balance international liberal practices with local customary ones. This book represents a sustained attempt to examine the role that public participation has played during state building and the consequences it has had for the performance of the state. It is also the first attempt to conduct a detailed empirical study of the role played by the liberal-local-hybrid approach in state building.

Constitutional law --- Political participation --- Constituent power --- Representative government and representation --- Constitutional limitations --- Constitutionalism --- Constitutions --- Limitations, Constitutional --- Public law --- Administrative law --- Parliamentary government --- Political representation --- Representation --- Self-government --- Constitutional history --- Political science --- Democracy --- Elections --- Republics --- Suffrage --- Legislative power --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Interpretation and construction --- Constitutional law - Timor-Leste - Interpretation and construction --- Constitutional law - Papua New Guinea - Bougainville Island - Interpretation and construction --- Political participation - Timor-Leste --- Political participation - Papua New Guinea - Bougainville Island --- Constituent power - Timor-Leste --- Constituent power - Papua New Guinea - Bougainville Island --- Representative government and representation - Timor-Leste --- Representative government and representation - Papua New Guinea - Bougainville Island --- Timor-Leste --- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée

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This book explores the first encounters between Samoans and Europeans up to the arrival of the missionaries, using all available sources for the years 1722 to the 1830s, paying special attention to the first encounter on land with the Lapérouse expedition. Many of the sources used are French, and some of difficult accessibility, and thus they have not previously been thoroughly examined by historians. Adding some Polynesian comparisons from beyond Samoa, and reconsidering the so-called ‘Sahlins-Obeyesekere debate’ about the fate of Captain Cook, ‘First Contacts’ in Polynesia advances a hypothesis about the contemporary interpretations made by the Polynesians of the nature of the Europeans, and about the actions that the Polynesians devised for this encounter: wrapping Europeans up in ‘cloth’ and presenting ‘young girls’ for ‘sexual contact’. It also discusses how we can go back two centuries and attempt to reconstitute, even if only partially, the point of view of those who had to discover for themselves these Europeans whom they call ‘Papalagi’. The book also contributes an additional dimension to the much-touted ‘Mead-Freeman debate’ which bears on the rules and values regulating adolescent sexuality in ‘Samoan culture’. Scholars have long considered the pre-missionary times as a period in which freedom in sexuality for adolescents predominated. It appears now that this erroneous view emerged from a deep misinterpretation of Lapérouse’s and Dumont d’Urville’s narratives.

History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania --- Samoan Islands --- Europe --- Foreign relations --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- Navigators Islands --- Samoa Islands --- Samoan Archipelago --- Council of Europe countries --- Islands of the Pacific --- Polynesia --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- History --- Anthropology --- history --- customs --- social life --- samoan islands --- foreign relations --- europe --- Bougainville Island --- Ethnic groups in Europe --- James Cook --- Jean-François de Galaup --- comte de Lapérouse --- Polynesians --- Tahiti

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When government services have broken down or when international nongovernment organisations are uninterested or unable to help, grassroots non-government organisations provide important humanitarian, educational and advocacy services. Yet, too often the story of the crucial role played by these organisations in conflict and post-conflict recovery goes unheard. The Leitana Nehan Women’s Development Agency provides many salutary lessons for grassroots non-government organisations undertaking peace making and peace-building work. In the thirteen years of its existence, it has contributed humanitarian assistance, provided education programs on peace, gender issues and community development, and has become a powerful advocate for women’s and children’s rights at all levels of society. Its work has been recognised through the award of a United Nations’ Millennium Peace Price in 2000 and a Pacific Peace Prize in 2004. This book makes a unique contribution to understanding the role of nongovernment organisations in promoting peace and development and gender issues in the South West Pacific.

Women in development --- Women and peace --- Non-governmental organizations --- Peace-building --- Humanitarian assistance --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Gender Studies & Sexuality --- INGOs (International agencies) --- International non-governmental organizations --- NGOs (International agencies) --- Nongovernmental organizations --- Organizations, Non-governmental (International agencies) --- Private and voluntary organizations (International agencies) --- PVOs (International agencies) --- Peace and women --- Development and women --- GAD (Gender and development) --- Gender and development --- WAD (Women and development) --- WID (Women in development) --- Women and development --- International agencies --- Nonprofit organizations --- Peace --- Women pacifists --- Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) --- History.