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

Explore theories, readings and interpretations from island perspectives In this collection the authors focus on contextual, cultural, and postcolonial criticism

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

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

730 million people—almost 10% of the world’s population—inhabit islands. One quarter of the states represented at the United Nations are islands. Islands