Research Catalog

Title

The South Pacific / Ron Crocombe.

Author

Crocombe, R. G.

Publication

Suva, Fiji : Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 2001.

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Additional Authors

University of the South Pacific. Institute of Pacific Studies.

Description

790 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 27 cm.

Summary

Book Description The South Pacific is about the 28 islands, nations and territories of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. Indigenous and external influences are creating new and unique arts, cultures, identities, societies, economies and politics of extreme diversity. Future trends are explored, but the main focus is on the present. After 100 years or more of control by mainly European nations, but also Japan and Indonesia, Pacific peoples are working out their destinies in a complex environment in which East Asia plays an escalating role. The book is an important contribution to understanding the Pacific, the Third World and the development debate. Because of the wealth of issues covered, the fascinating truths revealed and the simplicity of style, it will be welcomed by general readers as well as by serious scholars of the Pacific.--Publishers description.

Subject

• Oceania > Social conditions
• Oceania > Economic conditions
• Oceania > Social life and customs
• Oceania > Politics and government
• Oceania > History

Note

• Previous ed.: 1989.
• New Zealand author.
• On cover: Environment, history, society, culture, health, language, religion, education, information, economy, land & water, politics, governanace, corruption, security, the Pacific way, regional and international ralation, futures.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [714]-754) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Parameters. Place : environmental deterioration and enhancement -- People : moving and mixing -- Health : more lives and longer, but problematic fitness -- Patterns. -- Language : how many of today's 1,200 will survive? -- Society : networks of commitment getting wider but shallower -- Culture : an evolving synthesis of unity in diversity -- Perceptions. Creativity : reconciling the soul with the wallet -- Belief : more choice and less certainty in religions, philosophies, -- values and ethics -- Education : guidelines from where and for what? -- Information : moulding and creating perceptions, power and wealth -- Property. Tenures : constraints and opportunities relating to land and water -- Production : from village subsistence to global markets -- Commerce : selling services and sovereignty -- Restructuring : shrinking governments in stagnant economies -- Power. Government : traditional and colonial politics -- Independence : leadership from within -- Identity : seeking a Pacific Way? -- Birth-right : the politics of accident of birth -- first-born sons, first-arrived races and the rising status of women -- Corruption : stemming the rot -- Governance : the nature and quality of national cohesion -- Coercion : more military, police and other security forces -- 22. Regionalism : cooperation, competition, conflict, and assimilation into bigger regions -- Globalism : being small in a big world -- Prospects. Futures : widening choices in the 21st century -- Appendices. Basic facts about Pacific Islands nations and territories -- Pacific Islands regional organizations and services : a selection of names, functions, addresses and Internet sites -- Journals from the Pacific Islands -- Films relevant to Pacific studies.

ISBN

9820201543 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 48813502
• SCSB-12170047

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library