PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT

Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center
With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawai‘i

THE CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC is published twice a year. Articles and reviews on current issues and concerns from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities are published with the aim of providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary developments in the entire Pacific Islands region, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Opinions expressed in these pages are the responsibility of the authors.  More information can be found on The Contemporary Pacific Website. Back issues of The Contemporary Pacific can also be accessed on ScholarSpace.

Selected Items from the Current Issue 
Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2009

• About the Artist

Political Reviews

• The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2008

Melanesia In Review: Issues And Events, 2008

• Fiji
• New Caledonia
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

EDITORIAL BOARD 

• EDITOR: Terence Wesley-Smith, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i 
• POLITICAL REVIEWS EDITOR: Scott Kroeker, Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center 
• BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS EDITOR: Julie Walsh Kroeker, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
• RESOURCES EDITOR: Karen M Peacock, Pacific Collection, Hamilton Library, University of Hawai‘i 
• ARTS EDITOR: Carl F K Pao, Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu 
• MANAGING EDITOR: Jan Rensel, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i 

MEMBERS 

• Maenette Kapeahi‘okalani Padekin Ah-Nee Benham, Hawai‘inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of Hawai‘i
• Suzanne Falgout, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
• Ben Finney, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i
• David Hanlon, Department of History, University of Hawai'i
• Letitia Hickson, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
• Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
• Robert C Kiste, Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center
• Davianna McGregor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai‘i
• Lola Quan Bautista, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i
• Noenoe Silva, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai‘i
• Robert Sullivan, Department of English, University of Hawai‘i

• Keith Camacho, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
• Vicente M Diaz, University of Michigan, United States
• Stewart Firth, Australian National University
• Sitiveni Halapua, Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center
• Hilda Heine, Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, Majuro, Marshall Islands
• Brij V Lal, The Australian National University
• Cluny Macpherson, Massey University at Albany, New Zealand
• Selina Tusitala Marsh, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Mac Marshall, University of Iowa, United States
• Malama Meleisea, UNESCO, Kabul, Afghanistan
• Margaret Mutu, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Louise Peltzer, University of French Polynesia
• Margaret Critchlow Rodman, University of York, Canada
• Donald H Rubinstein, Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam
• Jacob Simet, National Cultural Commission, Papua New Guinea
• Katerina Teaiwa, The Australian National University
• Konai Helu Thaman, University of the South Pacific, Fiji 
• Eric Waddell, Université Laval, Québec, Canada