Table of Contents: “…--v. 8. The Pacific-Polynesia and Micronesia.--v. 9. Southern Africa and Madagascar.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Marine resource use in transition: modern fishing in Tonga, Western Polynesia -- 11. Territoriality in a Philippine fishing village: implications for coastal resource management.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Tenues végétales in beauty contests of French Polynesia : authenticity on islanders' own terms / Joyce D. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Saltwater bay: Under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California -- Cloud forest: Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica -- Coral reef: Lighthouse Reef, Moorea, French Polynesia -- Deciduous forest: Hallett Nature Sanctuary, Central Park, New York City -- Freshwater river: Duck River, Lillard's Mill, Tennessee -- Mountain fynbos: Table Mountain National Park, South Africa.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Tenues végétales in beauty contests of French Polynesia : authenticity on islanders' own terms / Joyce D. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Chisholm -- Love as an experience of transcendence / Charles Lindholm -- Boundaries of love / Jan Collins and Thomas Gregor -- Rethinking heterosexual relationships in Polynesia : a case study of Mangaia, Cook Island / Helen Harris -- Love, lust and found in Nigeria / Leonard Plotnicov -- The madness of excess : love among the Fulbe of North Cameroun / Helen A. …”

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of chiefdoms / Timothy Earle -- Chiefdoms, states, and systems of social evolution / Kristian Kristiansen -- The pattern of change in British prehistory / Richard Bradley -- Property rights and evolution of chiefdoms / Timothy Earle -- Lords of the waste : predation, pastoral production, and the process of stratification among the Eastern Twaregs / Candelario Sáenz -- Chiefship and competitive involution : the Marquesas Islands of eastern Polynesia / Patrick Kirch -- Trajectories towards social complexity in the later prehistory of the Mediterranean / Antonio Gilman -- Chiefdoms to city-states : the Greek experience / Yale Ferguson -- Contrasting patterns of Mississippian development / Vincas Steponaitis -- Demography, surplus, and inequality : early political formations in highland Mesoamerica / Gary Feinman -- Pre-Hispanic chiefdom trajectories in Mesoamerica, Central America, and northern South America / Robert Drennan…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : resistance and resilience / Laurent Dousset and Melissa Nayral -- A story in and on signs : making resistance and acquiescence legible as forms of resilience / Yasmine Musharbash -- Global models and local management of land ownership in Rapa (French Polynesia) / Christian Ghasarian -- Between vulnerability, resilience and resistance : Fiji islander women activists and the ethno-nationalist political crises in 2000 / Sina Emde -- Resisting UN ideals to make men and women equal in politics : when a humanist concern turns into arithmetic in Ouvea (New Caledonia) / Melissa Nayral -- Independence from independence : history, landownership and politics in South Malekula, Vanuatu / Laurent Dousset -- The reasonableness of leaders and the gaming of mining incomes in Papua New Guinea / John Burton -- Conclusion : values in flux : reflections on resilience and change in Melanesia / Martha Macintyre.…”
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Table of Contents: “…A comparative approach of integration ceremonies for Melanesia and Polynesia -- Sophie Chave-Dartoen, Denis Monnerie.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Andrew Chesnut -- Part V: The pacific -- Christianity in Australia and New Zealand : faith and politics in secular soil / Marion Maddox -- Christianity in Polynesia : transforming the islands / Ian Breward -- Christianity in Micronesia : the interplay between church and culture / Francis X. …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: geochemical evidence for long-distance exchange -- Indígena Ware: Spain to Valley of Mexico -- The emergence of market economics in the ancient Maya world: obsidian exchange in terminal classic Yucatán, Mexico -- More than exchange: pre-ceramic through ceramic period obsidian studies in the greater North American Southwest -- Archaeological evidence for the long-distance exchange of Caddo Indian ceramics in the Southwest Plains, Midwest, and southeastern United States -- Production and long-distance movement of Chupadero Black-on-White pottery in New Mexico and Texas -- Exploring the landscapes of long-distance exchange: evidence from Obsidian Cliffs and Devils Tower, Wyoming -- From Loess Plains to High Plains: the westward movement of Upper Republican pots -- Long-distance obsidian traffic in northwestern Argentina -- A geochemical vector for trade: Cyprus, Asia Minor, and the Roman East -- XRF analysis of pottery from Mutokolwe, a Khami settlement from the Soutpansberg Mountains, South Africa -- Yapese prestige goods: the INAA evidence for an Asian dragon jar -- Centrality and the collapse of long-distance voyaging in East Polynesia.…”

Table of Contents: “…Unflowing Pasts, Lost Springs and Watery Mysteries in Eastern Polynesia / Alexander Mawyer -- ch.5. Riverine Disposal of Mining Wastes in Porgera: Capitalist Resource Development and Metabolic Rifts in Papua New Guinea / Jerry K. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Ross -- Wild plants as food and medicine in Polynesia / Paul Alan Cox -- Characteristics of "wild" plant foods used by indigenous populations in Amazonia / Darna L. …”

Table of Contents: “…Smedal -- Hierarchy Is not Inequality-in Polynesia, for Instance / Serge Tcherkézoff -- Hierarchy and Power: A Comparative Attempt under Asymmetrical Lines / André Iteanu -- Afterword: On Dumont's Relentless Comparativism / Frederick H. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Love in Modern Australia and among the Indigenous People of Australia, Polynesia, and Southeast Asia -- Chapter 12. Marriage and Love in Africa in the 20th Century -- Chapter 13. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Tute: the impact of Polynesia on Captain Cook; 6. Some thoughts on Native Hawaiian attitudes towards Captain Cook.…”
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