The South Pacific
Journal of Philosophy and Culture
ISSN 1029-7833
Tables of Contents
Volume 12 (2013-2015)
Herman Mandui and Matthew Leavesley,
Some Possible Futures for Archaeology in Papua New Guinea 9
Mervyn Duffy,
How Europe began to picture Melanesians 16
Gbenga Fasiku,
Identity Theories and the Metaphysical Problem of Phenomenal
Consciousness 29
Jan Kees van Donge,
Corruption: a plea for more analysis or moving from big words to
precise meanings 46
Edward Wolfers,
Acceleration, Innovation and Self-Determination in
Decolonization: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead, with particular
reference to the remaining non-self-governing territories in the
Pacific 59
Nicolas Gamier,
Iconography of War: Interpreting images from the Bougainville
Crisis 75
Felix O. Olatunji,
Towards an Authentic Development for Africa 88
Obituary
Matthew Leavesley and Henry Arifeae,
Herman Mandui
Book Reviews
Greg Murphy, Tears of Joy Fears of Loss: Raun Raun Theatre
and its role in the construction of a national culture in Papua
New Guinea, (Port Moresby, UPNG Press, 2010)
(Sophie Naime)
Gregory T Cushman, Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A
Global Ecological History, (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2013)
(Linda A Newson)
Volume 11 (2010-2012)
Stephanie Lawson,
Ethnic Identity and Regionalism in the Pacific Islands: The Case
of ‘Melanesianess’”.
Ken Ngangan and Benedict Y. Imbun,
Cultural Influences on Indigenous Users’ Perception of the
Importance of Disclosure Items in Financial Statements: Empirical
Evidence from Papua New Guinea.
Clive Moore,
Changes in Melanesian Masculinities: An Historical Approach.
James Urwick,
“Still Grading on a Curve?” Developments in Educational
Assessment and the Challenges for Third World Universities.
Obituaries
Bill Gammage,
Hank Nelson (1937-2012)
Donald Denoon,
Horst Ulrich Beier 1922-2011
Notice
University of Papua New Guinea and Masala Press
Book Reviews
Marshall Sahlins, Apologies to Thucydides – Understanding History as
Culture and Vice Versa (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004)
(Morgan Tuimaleali’ifano)
René Pélissier, Portugais et Espagnols en “Océanie”: deux empires,
confins et contrastes (Orgeval, Editions Pélissier, 2010)
(William G. Clarence-Smith)
Steven Winduo, ed., Reframing Indigenous Knowledge: Cultural
Knowledge and Practices in Papua New Guinea (Waigani, Melanesian and
Pacific Studies, 2009)
(Regis Stella)
Sven Monter, Following a South Seas Dream: August Engelhardt and the
Sonnenorden (Germanic Pacific Studies No 2 for German Connection
with New Zealand and the Pacific, University of Auckland, 2008)
(Orovu Sepoe)
Volume 10 (2008-2009)
Forum on Gender Issues in Papua New Guinea
Anne Dickson-Waiko,
Finding Women in Colonial Papua: Gender Race, and Sex in Papua New
Guinea History.
Pauline Riman,
Indigenous Women in Papua New Guinea Literature.
Elizabeth Reid,
Reading as a Woman, Understanding Generalised HIV Epidemics.
Richard Eves,
Men, Masculinity, and Violence in Papua New Guinea: Towards
Developing Culturally Appropriate Responses.
Jonathan Ritchie,
‘We Need One District Government to Replace Other District
Governments’: the Beginnings of Provincial Government in Papua New
Guinea.
Richard Hawkins,
Hawaiian Pineapples in the Global Market, 1946-2008.
Olga Temple,
The Rational Language Mechanism: Limitations of
Arbitrariness.
Walter Dep,
Polygamy Still a Legacy of Ethic in Melanesian Culture? A
Rejoinder.
Obituaries
Edward P. Wolfers, In Memoriam, Ron Crocombe.
Hank Nelson, Gerald Griffin, August Kituai, Vale James Thomas
Griffin.
Notices
Donation of DVDs on World War II in PNG.
Producers and Collectors: Uncovering the Role of Indigenous Agency
in the Formation of Museum Collections.
Book Reviews
Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz, Yali’s Question:
sugar, culture and History, (Chicago, University of Chicago Press,
2004).
(Chris Ballard)
Pierre and Anne-Marie Pétrequin, Objets de Pouvoir en Nouvelle
Guinée, (Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2006).
(Nicolas Garnier)
Mary Mennis, A Potted History of Madang: Traditional Culture and
Change on the North Coast of Papua New Guinea, (Lalong Enterprises,
Queensland, Australia, 2006).
(August Kituai)
David Lea, Property Rights, Indigenous People and the Developing
World, Issues from Aboriginal Entitlement to Intellectual Ownership
Rights, (Leiden, Martinaus Nijhuff Publishers, 2008).
(William Ferea)
Ron Crocombe, Asia in the Pacific, Replacing the West, (Suva,
Institute of Pacific Studies Publication, University of the South
Pacific, 2007).
(Hiromitsu Iwamoto)
Lachlan Strahan, Day of Reckoning, (Canberra, Pandanus Books, 2005).
(Max Quanchi)
Donald Denoon, A Trial Separation: Australia and the Decolonisation
of Papua New Guinea, (Canberra, Pandanus Books, Research School of
Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University,
2005).
(Orovu Sepoe)
Jon Fraenkel and Stewart Firth (eds.), From Election to Coup in
Fiji: The 2006 Campaign and its Aftermath, (Suva, IPS Publications,
University of the South Pacific; Canberra, Asia Pacific Press, The
Australian National University, 2007).
(Andrew Murray)
Volume 9, 2008
Forum on Development Plans and the Grass Roots
David Kavanamur,
The Development Story; bipo nau na behain?
Patrick McAllister,
‘Subsistence’ Agriculture, Social Research and Rural Development in
South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province
Fernanda Claudio,
The CAMPFIRE Scheme in Zimbabwe during the 1990s: Local Responses to
Community Conservation
Glenn R. Summerhayes,
Lapita Colonisation of the Pacific?
Nicolas Garnier,
Maternal Generosity, the Mother/Son Relationship in Chambri (East
Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea)
Andrew Seefeld,
The Impact of Western Medicine on Traditional Maori Medical
Practices in the Cook Islands
Adeshina Afolayan,
Beyond PostModernism: The Philosophy of Decolonisation and the
Dilemma of African Scholarship
Obituary
Barnabas Orere, The Call of David Hand
Book Reviews
A. Pawley, R. Attenborough, J. Golson, R. Hide, (Eds.), Papuan
Pasts: Cultural, Linguistic and Biological Histories of Papuan
Speaking Peoples (Canberra, Australian National University, RSPAS,
Pacific Linguistics 57, 2005)
(Matthew Leavesley)
Neville Bartle, Death, Witchcraft and the Spirit World in the
Highlands of Papua New Guinea: Developing a Contextual Theology in
Melanesia (Goroka, Melanesian Institute for Pastoral and
Socio-Economic Service Inc., 2005)
(Regis Stella)
Phyllis Herda, Michael Reilly and David Hilliard (Eds.), Vision and
Reality in Pacific Religion, (Christchurch, MacMillan Brown Centre
for Pacific Studies, and Canberra, Pandanus, 2005)
(Andrew Murray)
Claus Gossler, Die Société Commerciale de l’Océanie: Aufstieg und
Untergang der Hamburger Godeffroys in Ost-Polynesien, (Bremen,
MontAurum Verlag, 2006)
(Stewart Firth)
Yukio Toyoda and Hank Nelson (Eds.), The Pacific War in Papua New
Guinea: Memories and Realities (Tokyo, Rikkyu University Center for
Asian Area Studies, 2006)
(Peter Dennis)
Ulli Beier, Decolonising the Mind: The Impact of the University on
culture and identity in Papua New Guinea 1971-1974 (Canberra,
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian
Studies, Pandanus, 2005)
(Steven Winduo)
Josephine Sirivi and Marilyn Taleo Havini (Eds.), As MOTHERS of the
LAND, the birth of the Bougainvillean Women for Peace and Freedom
(Canberra, Pandanus, 2004)
(Anne Dickson-Waiko)
Michael Goddard, The Unseen City: Anthropological Perspectives on
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (Canberra, Pandanus, 2005)
(Bill Sagir)
Ian Campbell, Island Kingdom: Tonga Ancient and Modern, 2nd edition
(Christchurch, Canterbury University Press, 2001)
(Andrew Murray)
David Lea, Land Tenure in Papua New Guinea – What Does it Really
Mean? (Port Moresby, National Research Institute, Special
Publication No. 35, 2004)
(William Ferea)
Papua New Guinea 2006 Year Book (Port Moresby, The National &
Cassowary Books, 2006)
(Regis Stella)
Rene Guenon, East and West, Martin Lings, Trans. (Hillsdale, New
York, Sophia Perennis, 2002)
(David Lea)
Volume 8, 2004-05
Articles: Forum on Failed and
Vulnerable States
Allan Patience
Failed and Vulnerable States, Towards a Political Science of South
Pacific Regionalism
Joseph Abogenye Anuga
The Failed States in West Africa
Edward P. Wplfers
Viability and Contemporary Challenges of Small States (with
special regard to the implications for the remaining
non-self-governing territories in the Pacific)
Clive Moore
Working the Government: Australia’s South Sea Islanders, their
knowledge of and interaction with government processes, 1863-1908
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
Mining in Irian Jaya: How Citizens Should Think about
Environmental Justice
William Ferea
On Violence; Its Other Dimension
Tim Curtin
Forerstry and Economic Development in Papua New Guinea
Notes and Notices
Leo Marai, South Pacific
Journal of Psychology as an Impetus to the Development of the
South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture
Steven Edmond Winduo,
Melanesia and Pacific Studies (MAPS): Mapping Research, Education,
and Publication Culture at UPNG
Book Reviews
Robert Nicole, The Word, The Pen and the Pistol: Literature and
Power in Tahiti (New York, State university of New York Press,
2001)
(Sam Kaima)
David Kavanamur, Charles Yala, and Quinton Clements (eds.),
Building a Nation in Papua New Guinea: Views of the
Post-Independence Generation (Canberra, Pandanus Books, 2003)
(Andrew Murray)
Alan Powell, The Third Force: ANGAU’s New Guinea War, 1942-1946
(Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2003)
(August Kituai)
Na Kkai Taku: Taku’s Musical Fables (Port Moresby, Institute of
Papua New Guinea Studies, 2003)
(Regis Stella)
Winston Halapua, Living on the Fringe: Melanesians in Fiji (Suva,
Institute of Pacific Studies, 2001)
(Sam Kaima)
Elin Johnston, Bishop George; Man of Two Worlds (Sydney, Elin
Johnston, 2003)
(Bishop David Hand)
Eccy de Jonge, Spinoza and Deep Ecology: Challenging Traditional
Approaches to Deep Ecology (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004)
(David Lea)
Regis Stella, Gutsini Posa (Rough Seas) (Suva, Mana Publications,
1999)
(Sam Kaima)
Volume 7, 2003
Henry Okole and David Kavanamur
Political Corruption in Papua New
Guinea; Some Causes and Policy
Lessons. <>
Paschal Waisi
Can Traditional Religion be Compatible with Christianity? A
Phenomenological Analysis of the La’um Higher Spirit against the
Onslaught of Christian Fundamentalism.
Scott Stroud
Kant and Śankara on Freedom.
Anne Dickson-Waiko
Polygamy, social safety net or cultural anachronism?
A Rejoinder.
Samuel M. Makinda
The Academic Discipline of International Relations, Where is it
Heading?
Book Reviews
Ron Crocombe, The South Pacific
(Suva, Institute
of Pacific Studies,
2001). (David Lea).
John Saltford, The United Nations
and the Indonesian Takeover of West
Papua, 1962-1969, The anatomy of
betrayal (London
& New York,
RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). (Peter J. Yearwood).
Hans Fischer, Wörter und Wandel:
Ethnographische Zugänge über die Sprache (Berlin, Dietrich
Reimer Verlag, 2000). (William Ferea).
Clive Robert Moore, New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History, (Honolulu,
University of Hawai’i
Press, 2003). (John Waiko).
Volume 5, 2002
Roman Dubsky
The Formula for Public Sector Reforms: Public Enterprise Reform in
Fiji Islands
and the good Governance in Oceania.
Peter J. Yearwood
The Great War and the Triumph of King Copra, 1914-21.
Stuart Hawthorne
Implementing Records Systems in Developing Countries: Why it is
Difficult.
Book Reviews
Brij V. Lal. Fiji Before the Storm: Elections and Politics of
Development (Canberra:
Asia Pacifica
Press, 2000) (Alphonse Gelu).
Theodore Levantis. Papua New Guinea: employment, wages and economic development (Canberra:
Asia Pacific Press, 2000). (David
Kavanamur).
Steven J. Friesen (editor), Ancestors
in Post-Contact Religion: Roots, Ruptures and Modernity’s
Memory (Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press,
2001). (David Lea).
Volume 4, 2000
Articles
William Sweet
Globalization, philosophy, and the
model of ecumenism
L. Anthony Saveri Raj
From an idea of environment to an
ideal environment: some cosmotheandric implications
H. Daniel Dei
Ontological identity, capitalism, and
the dialogical model of religious ecumenism: a propsective for
the new century
Ron Huch
Small was not beautiful: the failure
of economic planning in Papua New Guinea, 1972-1981
Don Heider
Finding the "Other" overseas: travel
journalism as ritual discourse
Volume 3, 1998 - 99
Articles
John Patterson
Earning Mana in the Land 1
Thomas Tharakunnel and William Sweet
Religious Pluralism and Justice in
the Indian Context: A Christian Perspective 15
Louis Groarke and Paul Groarke
Eichmann Retired: Moral Incapacity
and the Defence of Insanity 42
Discussion Notes
David Lea
The Ethics of
Corruption in Papua New Guinea and Elsewhere in the Developing
World 71
William Ferea
The Historical Legacy
of the PNG Colonial Constabulary 82
Book Reviews
C. Moore and M.
Kooyman (eds)
A Papua New Guinea
Critical Chronicle 1967-1991 (Orovu Sepoe) 88
Lai Ah Eng
Meanings of
Multiethnicity A Case Study of Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations
in Singapore
(Geoffrey
Hayes) 89
Laura
Zimmer-Tamakashi (ed)
Modern Papua New
Guinea (Geoffrey Hayes) 92
G. Forrester and R.
J. May (eds)
The Fall of Soehario
(Ray Anere) 96
Sean Dorney
The Sandline Affair:
Politics and Mercenaries and the Bougainville Crisis (Timothy
Curtin) 100
Volume 2 1997
ARTICLES
LAURA ZIMMER-TAMAKOSHI
Moga-Omoi's Daughters 1
JOHN PATTERSON
Friends and Foes in Environmental
Ethics: Poles Apart? 21
TIMOTHY CURTIN
Ethics of User Pays for Education in
Papua New Guinea 33
DISCUSSION
Common Sense
Discourses, Power Relations and Papua New Guinean Traditions -
page 54
ANDREW MOUTU
BOOK REVIEWS
JAMES TULLY, Strange
Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity - page
63
David Lea
KLAUS NEUMANN,
Rabaul: Yu Swit Moa Yet - page 68
Ronald Huch
Volume 1 1996
Editorial - page i
Articles
Post Modern Theory: Progress or
Regression in the Social Sciences - page 2
Geoffrey Hayes
Culture and Historians: The
Changing Discipline Since 1970 - page 11
Ronald Huch
Reflections on the Philosophy of
History: Nationalism and the Quest for Historical World Order
- page 26
Graham Hassal
Culture and Community: Essay on
the Relation of a Natural Dichotomy - page 38
Kerry Pataki-Schweizer
Communitarian Challenges to the
Liberal State: Fiji, Quebec, and Bougainville - page 46
David Lea
Discussion Papers
Teaching Logic at
U.P.N.G.: Ambiguity of "Because" in the Distinction Between
Explanations and Arguments - page 59
William Ferea
Political
Correctness and Popular Democracy - page 64
Alan Robson
Book Review
Section
Howard Van Trease, Melanesian
Politics: Stael Blong Vanuatu 91
Raymond Anere