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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1992. The Pacific Ocean is the largest geographical feature on the face of the earth, covering about one third of its entire surface. Occupying part of that large expanse are the far-flung islands of the Pacific. As the papers of this volume clearly indicate, the post-world war II era and decolonization have brought unprecedented change, and the Pacific is now experiencing problems that were formerly associated with other Third World nations. Most Pacific countries have rapidly expanding populations, and over half of all Pacific Islanders are now in their teenage years or younger. Education and modern communications have served to increase aspirations and attracted by hopes of employment and the distractions of urban life, islanders are gravitating to urban centers.
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Social Change as the Projection of Discourse, Albert B. Robillard. Part 1 Melanesia: Papua New Guinea - Changing Relations of Production, Eugene Ogan and Terence Wesley-Smith; New Caledonia - Social Change, Political Change and Tradition in a Settler Colony, John Connell; Social Change in Vanuatu, Jean-Marc Philibert; Social Change and the Survival of Neo-Tradition in Fiji, Vijay Naidu. Part 2 Micronesia: The Expensive Taste for Modernity - Caroline and Marshall Islands, Francis X. Hezel; The Militarization of Guamanian Society, Larry W. Mayo; Elements of Social Change in the Contemporary Northern Mariana Islands, Samuel F. McPhetres; Kiribati - Change and Context in an Atoll World, Roger Lawrence. Part 3 Polynesia: Schooling and Transformations in Samoan Social Status in Hawai'i, Robert W. Franco; State Formation, Development, and Social Change in Tonga, Christine Ward Gailey; French Polynesia - A Nuclear Dependency, Ben Finney; Where is Social Change in Hawai'i? the Reyn's Aloha Shirt, Albert B. Robillard; Language and Social Change in the Pacific Islands, Donald M. Topping; Children's Survival in the Paciffic Islands, George Kent; Some Concluding Thoughts on Social Change, Cluny Macpherson.
