Anthropologists have disagreed about the exact geographical boundaries of Melanesia, some using the term to designate only the islands east of New Guinea, though without arguing that New Guinea is culturally distinct. Others have suggested that Fiji,...

Melanesia (from Greek: μέλας black, νῆσος island) is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western side of the West Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and northeast of Australia. The term was first used by Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1832 to...

Edited by Sinclair Dinnen and Allison Levy. Annandale: Hawkins Press; and Canberra: Asia Pacific Press. 2000. Pp. xviii + 332. This is a collection of twenty-two essays, most of which arose out of a two-day interdisciplinary workshop on violence...

Bruce M. Knauft. From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. x, 320pp., figs., map, tables, illustr., photos., bibliog., index. US$59.50 (Hc.), ISBN 0472-09687-7; US$49.95 (Pb.), ISBN 0-472-- 06687-0. During the early 1990s, when I lived...

Jake Suri worried Friday that unless he gets help soon, his meager stores of rice will run out sometime next week and he will have nothing to feed his four children.Suri's thatched house in Hamba was swept away and his potato and cassava crops spoiled...

The San Diego region is a popular vacation spot year-round, with attractions like the San Diego Zoo, LegoLand and SeaWorld. But in the fall, the city and surrounding area also host numerous special events, from harvest fairs to Fleet Week.Fleet Week events actually unfold over...