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The New Shape of Old Island Cultures
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Francis X. Hezel
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-05-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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The years since World War II have brought unprecedented social change to Micronesia. Now, drawing on more than four decades of experience living and working in
The New Shape of Old Island Cultures
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Francis X. Hezel
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-05-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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The years since World War II have brought unprecedented social change to Micronesia. Now, drawing on more than four decades of experience living and working in
Making Sense of Micronesia
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Francis X. Hezel
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-30 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Why are islanders so lavishly generous with food and material possessions but so guarded with information? Why do these people, unfailingly polite for the most
Strangers in Their Own Land
Language: en
Pages: 496
Authors: Francis X. Hezel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09-30 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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"Hezel has written an authoritative and engaging narrative of [a] succession of colonial regimes, drawing upon a broad range of published and archival sources a
New Mana
Language: en
Pages: 391
Authors: Matt Tomlinson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-13 - Publisher: ANU Press

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‘Mana’, a term denoting spiritual power, is found in many Pacific Islands languages. In recent decades, the term has been taken up in New Age movements and