Book review : Change and continuity in the Pacific : revisiting the region

Abstract

Change and continuity in the Pacific is a collection of essays by thirteen anthropologists and geographers with decades of field experience in the Pacific Islands. Many undertook fieldwork in very isolated locations in the 1970s and 1980s. All have maintained relationships and research interests with people from those original communities over periods of 30 or 40 years. The chapters offer broad coverage of communities across the region, including Cook Islands, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. As individual chapters and as a collection, the papers in this volume offer a remarkable set of perspectives on social change in Oceania.