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GENDER VIOLENCE & HUMAN RIGHTS: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu | TRANSFORMATIONS OF GENDER IN MELANESIA

Barbara Andersen

TIDES OF INNOVATION IN OCEANIA: Value, materiality and place. | Edited by Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone and Anna Paini

Rodolfo Maggio

TOURING PACIFIC CULTURES | Edited by Kalissa Alexeyeff, John Taylor

Shirley Campbell

TREES, KNOTS, AND OUTRIGGERS: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring | By Frederick H. Damon

Susanne Kuehling

WAVES OF KNOWING: A Seascape Epistemology | By Karin Amimoto Ingersoll

Tui Nicola Clery

MOTHERLESS TONGUES: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation | By Vicente L. Rafael

William B. Noseworthy

GHOSTLY DESIRES: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema | By Arnika Fuhrmann

David Teh

OF BEGGARS AND BUDDHAS: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand | By Katherine A. Bowie

Susan M. Darlington

SIEGE OF THE SPIRITS: Community and Polity in Bangkok | By Michael Herzfeld

Charles Keyes

HAMKA’S GREAT STORY: A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia | By James R. Rush

Abidin Kusno