"This quirky, brilliant book gives the reader the thrill of cultural history done well. Okihiro undertakes a conventional topic in a jarring way, avoiding the a

Anthropologists like to tell other people’s stories but local experts tell them even better. This book introduces the vibrant living culture and fascinating h

On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease tha

The authors examine the environmental, social and economic aspects of colonial and post-colonial experience in Fiji.

The Solomon Islands Campaign of World War II has been the subject of many published historical accounts. Most of these accounts present an ‘outsider’ perspe