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 in Melanesia, organised by the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project at the Australian National University in December 1997. About a third of the contributors to this volume are anthropologists, and about a third are human rights activists in Melanesia. The others come from backgrounds in criminology, cultural studies, political scienc...
