Table of Contents
Preface, Acknowledgements, Maps, Chapter 1: Introduction: Social Change as the Projection of Discourse, MELANESIA, Chapter 2: Papua New Guinea: Changing Relations of Production, Chapter 3: New Caledonia: Social Change, Political Change and Tradition in a Settler Colony, Chapter 4: Social Change in Vanuatu, Chapter 5: Social Change and the Survival of Neo-Tradition in Fiji, MICRONESIA, Chapter 6: The Expensive Taste for Modernity: Caroline and Marshall Islands, Chapter 7: The Militarization of Guamanian Society, Chapter 8: Elements of Social Change in the Contemporary Northern Mariana Islands, Chapter 9: Kiribati: Change and Context in an Atoll World, POLYNESIA, Chapter 10: Schooling and Transformations in Samoan Social Status in Hawai'i, Chapter 11: State Formation, Development, and Social Change in Tonga, Chapter 12: French Polynesia: A Nuclear Dependency, Chapter 13: Where is Social Change in Hawai'i? The Reyn's Aloha Shirt, Chapter 14: Language and Social Change in the Pacific Islands, Chapter 15: Children's Survival in the Pacific Islands, Chapter 16: Some Concluding Thoughts on Social Change, Notes, References, Index