Journal of the Polynesian Society

An invaluable resource for "navigating" through the first hundred issues of the journal (for the years 1892-1991) is

The Centennial Index  compiled by Dorothy Brown, 279pp., 1993.

This is available from the Assistant Secretary at $NZ30.00. plus postage and packing. Email: JPS@auckland.ac.nz.

Instructions to Authors
Style and Formatting Instructions to Authors The Journal of the Polynesian Society is published quarterly and includes main articles, shorter communications (5000 words or less), correspondence and book reviews. View instructions.

Separate isues of The Journal of the Polynesian Society are available at $NZ15 each, plus postage and packing. Contents of recent issues are as follows below.

Main Articles
PATRICK V. KIRCH and MARK D. McCOY: Reconfiguring the Hawaiian Cultural Sequence: Results of Re-dating the Halawa Dune Site (MO-A1-3), Moloka‘i Island

CHRISTOPHE SAND, FREDERIQUE VALENTIN, JACQUES BOLÉ, ANDRÉ OUETCHO, DAVID BARET, TARISI SOROVI-VUNIDILO and SEPETI MATARARABA: Report and Preliminary Analysis of the Firth Archaeological Survey of Naqelelevu Atoll, Northeast Fiji

ÅSHILD NÆSS andEVEN HOVDHAUGEN: The History of Polynesian Settlement in the Reef and Duff Islands: the Linguistic Evidence

Shorter Communication
FRANS-KAREL WEENER: Tongan Club Iconography: An Attempt to Unravel Visual Metaphors through Myth.

Article
MICHAEL P.J. REILLY: Gifts from the Sea: The Two Iron Axes of Mangaia
Shorter Communications
JUDITH BINNEY: Papahurihia, Pukerenga, Te Atua Wera and Te Nakahi: How Many Prophets
ANNE DI PIAZZA and ERIK PEARTHREE: A New Reading of Tupaia’s Chart
PAUL VAN DER GRIJP: Tabua Business: Re-circulation of Whale Teeth and Bone Valuables in the Central Pacific

Special Issue: POLYNESIAN ART: HISTORIES AND MEANINGS IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS

STEVEN HOOPER: Introduction
ADRIENNE KAEPPLER: Containers of Divinity
STEVEN HOOPER: Embodying Divinity: the Life of A‘a
KAREN STEVENSON and STEVEN HOOPER: Tahitian Fau: Unveiling an Enigma
ROGER NEICH: Tongan Figures: from Goddesses to Missionary Trophies to Masterpieces

Main Articles
VINCENT O’MALLEY: English Law and the Maori Response: A Case Study from the Runanga System in Northland, 1861-65
MICHAEL REILLY: Transforming Mangaia’s Spritual World: Letters from the Early Christian Community of Oneroa

Shorter Communication
F. ALLAN HANSON and CHRISTIAN GHASARIAN: “The Land Belongs to Everyone”: The Unstable Dynamic of Unrestricted Cognatic Descent in Rapa, French Polynesia

Professor Sir Hugh Kawharu 1927-2006

Main Article
JENNIFER G. KAHN and JAMES COIL: What House Posts Tell Us about Status Difference in Prehistoric Tahitian Society: An Interpretation of Charcoal Analysis, Sacred Woods and Inter-site Variability

Shorter Communications
CATHERINE ORLIAC: Two Offering Stands from Mangareva in the Collections of the Peter-the-Great Museum of St Petersburg and the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris
JENNIFER JOHNSTONE and RICHARD FEINBERG: From Oriori to the Everly Brothers: Observations on the Music of Nukumanu

Poroporoaki for Te Arikinui Dame Te Atarangikaahu 1931-2006

Main Articles
ANDREW PAWLEY: Explaining the Aberrant Austronesian Languages of Southeast Melanesia: 150 Years of Debate
ANNE-CHRISTINE TRÉMON: Conflicting Autonomist and Independentist Logics in French Polynesia

Main Articles
TOBIAS SPERLICH: Embodied Inter-cultural Dialogues: The Biography of a Samoan Necklace in Cologne
ELIZABETH KEATING and ALESSANDRO DURANTI: Honorific Resources for the Construction of Hierarchy

Shorter Communications
MIKE T. CARSON: Chronology in Kaua‘i: Colonisation, Land Use, Demography

Main Articles
ANDREA BENDER AND SIEGHARD BELLER: “Fanciful” or Genuine?Bases and High Numerals in Polynesian Number Systems
PETER J. SHEPPARD AND RICHARD WALTER: A Revised Model of Solomon Islands Culture History

Shorter Communications
ERIC CONTE AND CLAUDE PAYRI: Present-day Consumption of Edible Algae in French Polynesia: A Study of the Survival of pre-European Practices

Main Articles
PAUL VAN DER GRIPJ: Development Polynesian Style: Contemporary Futunan Social Economy and its Cultural Features

Shorter Communications
MARK McCOY: The Development of the Kalaupapa Field System. Moloka‘i Island, Hawai‘i.
THEGN N.LADEFOGED, MICHAEL W. GRAVES and JAMES H. COIL: The Introduction of Sweet Potato in Polynesian: Early Remains in Hawai‘i
PAUL WALLIN AND REIDAR SOLSVIK: Radiocarbon Dates from Marae Structures in the District of Maeva, Huahine, Society Islands.

Main Articles
ADRIENNE KAEPPLER: Animal Designs on Samoan Siapo and Other Thoughts on Polynesian Barkcloth Design
SHAWN S. BARNES and TERRY L. HUNT: Samoa’s Pre-contact Connections in West Polynesia and Beyond

Shorter Communication
SIMON HOLDAWAY, ROD WALLACE, RUSSELL GIBB, HANS BADER, DAN McCURDY AND MICHAEL TAYLOR: Archaeology without Squares: A Computerised System for Recording and Visualising the Excavation of a 19th Century Mäori Village.

Main Articles
CLUNY AND LA‘AVASA MACPHERSON: The Ifoga: The Exchange Value of Social Honour in Contemporary Samoa
ALEX FRAME AND PAUL MEREDITH: Performance and Mäori Customary Legal Process

Shorter Communication
D.S WALSH: Some Misconceptions Remedied for Raga, an Oceanic Language

Main Articles
HELEN LEACH and CHRIS STOWE: Oceanic Arboriculture at the Margins—The Case of the Karaka (Corynocarpus Laevigatus) in Aotearoa
JOHN GOULD: Socio-Economic Gaps between Mäori and Mäori: Outcomes of Sixteen Iwi 1991-2001
MARA A. MULROONEY and THEGN LADEFOGED: Hawaiian Heiau and Agricultural Production in the Kohala Dryland Field System

Shorter Communcation
GRAHAM HARRIS: An Indigenous Mäori Potato or unique Mäori Cultivars?

ADRIENNE KAEPPLER: Appreciation and Challenge: Remarks at the Launch of the Oldman Catalogues, 3 November 2004

Main Articles
FREDERICK PEARL: The Chronology of Mountain Settlements in Tutuila, American Samoa
EMILY DONALDSON: Vanishing Artefacts of the South Seas

Shorter Communications
JIM SPECHT: Lapita, The Solomons and Similarity Measures
JEAN GUIART: Retoka Revisited and Roymata Revised: A Retort

JULIE PARK and CAROLYN MORRIS: Reproducing Samoans in Auckland “in Different Times”: Can Habitus Help?
ANYA HINKLE: The Distribution of a Male Sterile Form of Ti (Cordyline fruticosa) in Polynesia: A Case of Human Selection?

Shorter Communication
CHRIS JACOMB, RICHARD WALTER, et al.: A 15th Century Mäori Textile Fragment from Kaitorete Spit, Canterbury, and the Evolution of Mäori Weaving

Main Articles
SUE FARRAN: Transsexuals, Fa`afafine, Fakaleiti and Marriage Law in the Pacific: Considerations for the Future.
MELINDA ALLEN: Revisiting and Revising Marquesan Culture History: New Archaeological Investigations at Anaho Bay, Nuku Hiva Island.

Shorter Communication
AILSA SMITH: Arohirohi Noa ‘My Spinning Head’

Main Articles
ERIC SCHWIMMER: The Local and the Universal: Reflections on Mäori Literature in response to Chadwick Allen’s Blood Narrative
J.D. GOULD: Regional Differences in Mäori Income in the 2001 Population Census
JACINTA RURU: A Politically Fuelled Tsunami: The Foreshore/Seabed Controversy in Aotearoa me te Wai Pounamu / New Zealand
DIMITRI ANSON: What’s in a Name? The House Carvings that Dr Hocken gave to Otago Museum

Main Articles
ROGER NEICH: The Mäori House Down in the Garden: A Benign Colonialist Response to Mäori Art and the Mäori Counter-response.
ANGELA TERRILL: Linguistic Stratigraphy in the Central Solomon Islands: Lexical Evidence of Early Papuan/Austronesian Interaction

Eleven Book Reviews

"Postcolonial Dilemmas: Reappraising Justice and identity in New Zealand and Australia"

Main Articles
TOON VAN MEIJL and MICHAEL GOLDSMITH: Introduction: Recognition, Redistribution and Reconciliation in Postcolonial Settler Societies
ANN SULLIVAN: Effecting Change througn Electoral Politics: Cultural Identity and the Mäori Franchise
JOHN MORTON: Abortive Redemption? Apology, History and Subjectivity in Australian Reconcilation
TOON VAN MEIJL: Conflicts of Redistribution in Contemporary Mäori Society: Leadership and the Tainui Settlement
MICHAEL GOLDSMITH: Culture, For and Against: Patterns of "Culturespeak" in New Zealand
SENKA BOZIC-VRBANCIC: One Nation, Two Peoples, Many Cultures: Exhibiting Identity at Te Papa Tongarewa

Main Articles
ATHOLL ANDERSON, ERIC CONTE, PATRICK V. KIRCH AND MARSHALL WEISLER: Cultural Chronology in Mangareva (Gambier Islands), French Polynesia: Evidence from Recent Radiocarbon Dating
HELEN LEACH: Fern Consumption in Aotearoa and its Oceanic Precedents
ROSS CORDY: Who Made the Feather Cloaks in the Hawaiian Islands?

Fifteen Book Reviews

Main Articles
RICHARD MOYLE: Waning Stars-Changes to Takü’s Star Knowledge
WOLFGANG KEMPF: “Songs Cannot Die”: Ritual Composing and the Politics of Emplacement among the Resettled Banabans on Rabi Island in Fiji

Shorter Communications
SERGE TCHERKÉZOFF: The Unwarranted Encounter between the Etymology of Papälagi and the Apotheosis of Captain Cook

Reviews by: S. Best, R. Lederman, M. Mutu, J. Park, J. Burton, J. Lynch, C. Daley, S. Trnka, N. McPherson, F.Rawlings, B. Allen, G. Summerhayes

Correspondence from: F.M. (Jock) Brookfield, M. Mutu and J. Laurie

Main Articles
JOAN METGE: Returning the gift-utu in Intergroup Relations
MIKE T CARSON: Tï Ovens in Polynesia: Ethnological and Archaeological Perspectives

Shorter Communications
Vincent H. Stefan, Sara L. Collins and Marshall I. Weisler: Henderson Island Crania and their Implication for Southeastern Polynesian Prehistory

Reviews by: M. Campbell, M. Filihia, M. Goldsmith, R. Dawson x 2, K. Neumann, R. Blust, T.D. Salesa, T.K. Teaiwa, J. Jacka

Correspondence: G. Lee

Main Articles
David Penny, Rosalind Murray-McIntosh and G.L (Abby) Harrison: Estimating the Number of Females in the Founding Population of New Zealand: Analysis of mtDNA Variation
Kerry James: The Cost of Custom: A Recent Funeral in Tonga

Shorter Communications
Robert L. Brock: Mäori Names for Crickets
Moira White: The Spanish Sherds from San Cristobal
John Laurie: Translating the Treaty of Waitangi

Reviews by: M. Goldsmith, Jon Barnett, Anna Margetts, Simon Holdaway, Micah Van der Ryn, Mike Evans, K.R. Howe, Elizabeth Cory-Pearce, Brij V. Lal, Thomas Strong, Brendan Hokowhitu, Colin McGeorge, Laurence Marshall Carucci, Peter Sheppard, Monica Minnegal, Khylee Quince and Borut Telban

Main Articles
M.F. Dega and P.V. Kirch: A Modified Culture History of Anahulu Valley, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i and Its Significance for Hawaiian Prehistory
Matthew Campbell: Ritual Landscape in Late Pre-Contact Rarotonga: A Brief Reading
Bruno Saura: Continuity of Bodies: The Infant’s Placenta and the Island’s Navel in Eastern Polynesia

Special Review by: Simon Best and Paul Geraghty of: Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology by Patrick Vinton Kirch and Roger C. Green.

Reviews by: Ian Fraser Donald Denoon Martha Macintyre Eve Coxon John Burton Frederick Errington Susanne Kühling Dirk Anthony Ballendorf

Main Article
Simon Bickler and Marianne Turner: Food to Stone: Investigations at the Suloga Adze Manufacturing Sites, Woodlark Island, Papua New Guinea

Shorter Communications
Angela Middleton: Le Jeune’s “Inhabitants of New Zealand, With a View of Their Fortified Stronghold or Hippah. 10 April 1824”: A Correct Identification of this “Hiipah”
Paul Moonand Sabine Fenton: Bound into a Fateful Union: Henry Williams’ Translation of the Treaty of Waitangi into Maori in February 1840
Jo Anne Van Tilburg: O.G.S. Crawford and the Mana Expedition to Easter Island (Rapa Nui), 1913-1915.

Reviews: J. Park, J. Specht, P. Hempenstall, M. Goddard, P. Roscoe, D. Brown, E. Rankin

Correspondence:C. Morris

Main Article
Raymond Young: A Land with a Tangled Soul: Lakeba Traditions and the Native Lands Commission

Shorter Communications
Meredith Filihia: Men are From Maama, Women are from Pulotu: Female Status in Tongan Society
Alexandra Brewis: Gender Conflict and Co-operation in Reproductive Decision-making in Micronesia

Reviews by: W. Friesen, K.R.Howe, L. Zimmer-Tamakoshi, I Gershon, D. Niles, M. Kaplan, G. Dening, S. Bozic-Vrbancic, D. Scarr

Correspondence from: S. Tcherkezoff, K. Szabó and R.C. Green.

Professor Sir Raymond Firth: The Creative Contribution of Indigenous People to their Ethnography: In reply to receiving the Polynesian Society’s Nayacakalou Medal at his Centennial Luncheon.

Main Article
David Luders: Retoka Revisited and Roimata Revised

Shorter Communications
Rhys Richards: A Two-Piece Fishhook and New Narrative from Tokelau 1825

Bruce McFadgen and James Goff: A Discussion of the Molluscan Evidence for Late Holocene Climate Change on Motutapu Island in the Hauraki Gulf

Derek Freeman: “Words have no word for words that are not true”-A Rejoinder to Serge Tcherkezoff

Reviews by:H. Allen, H. Laracy, D.W. Gegeo, P. Laing and S.N. Millerstrom

Correspondence from: R. Langdon, P. Stewart and A. Strathern, J. Drysdale

Main Articles
Paul Shankman: Interethnic Unions and the Regulations of Sex in Colonial Samoa: 1830-1945
Anne Di Piazza and Eric Pearthree: An Island for Gardens, An Island for Birds and Voyaging: A Settlement Pattern for Kiritimati and Tabuaeran, Two “Mystery Islands” in the Northern Lines, Republic of Kiribati
Jan Tent and Paul Geraghty: Exploding Sky or Exploded Myth? The Origin of Papalagi

Reviews by: A. Muckle, J. Simon, H. Laracy, T. van Meijl, K. Stevenson and R. Neich.

Main Articles
Sir Raymond Firth: Tikopia Dreams: Personal Images of Social Reality
Michael Reilly: Sex and War in Ancient Polynesia

Shorter Communications
Katherine Szabo: Molluscan Evidence for Late Holocene Climate Change in Motutapu Island, Hauraki Gulf
Serge Tcherkezoff: Is Anthropology about Individual Agency or Culture? Or Why “Old Derek” is Doubly Wrong

Reviews by: M. Kolb, E. Wood-Ellem, T. Ryan (twice), K. Rountree, W. Anderson, R. Hooper, C. Morris.

Correspondence from: D. Freeman

Obituary by Andrew Pawley of former Polynesian Society President Bruce Biggs

Main Articles
Merata Kawharu: Kaitiakitanga: A Maori Anthropological Perspective on the Maori Socio-environmental Ethic of Resource Management.

Celia Ehrlich: “Inedible” to “Edible”: Firewalking and the Ti Plant

Anton Ploeg: Dr P.J. Eyma’s Writings on Agriculture in the Paniai Area, Central Highlands, Irian Jaya

Shorter Communications
Katherine Szabo: Molluscan Evidence for Late Holocene Climate Change on Motutapu Island, Hauraki Gulf

Reviews by: D. Hanlon, R. Buschmann, E. Ogan, S. Aswani, S. Best, M. Pendergrast, M. Molloy, R. Young, M. Quanchi, B. Guerin.

Main Articles
Maureen Molloy: "Lords of an Empty Creation": Manus, America and the Depression.
Peter D. Dwyer and Monica Minnegal: El Niño, Y2K and the Short, Fat Lady: Drought and Agency in a Lowland Papua New Guinea Community.
Atholl Anderson, et al.: Towards a First Prehistory of Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, Republic of Kiribati.
Per Hage: The Conical Clan in Micronesia: The Marshall Islands.

Reviews by: J. Osoiro, N. Ellis (twice), S. Pearson, R. Sullivan and P. Herda.

The Samoan Category of Matai/'Chief': A Singularity in Polynesia? Historical and Etymological Comparative Queries. Serge Tcherkékoff: 151-190

Shorter communication
A Range of Disciplines Support a Dual Origin for the Bottle Gourd in the Pacific. R. C. Green: 191-197
September 2000 Volume 109(3)
"Lords of an Empty Creation": Manus, America and the Depression: Maureen Molloy 233-235
El Niño, Y2K and the "Short, Fat Lady": Drought and Agency in a Lowland Papua New Guinea Community. Peter Dwyer and Monica Minnegal: 251-272
Towards a First Prehistory of Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, Republic of Kiribati. Atholl Anderson, et al.: 273-294

Shorter Communications
The Conical Clan in Micronesia: The Marshall Islands .Per Hage: 295-309
An Inland Lapita Site in Fiji. Atholl Anderson, Geoffrey Clark and Trevor Worthy:311-316.

Essays on Head-hunting in the Western Solomon Island, Guest Editor: Shankar Aswani:
Preface: On Head-hunting in the Western Solomons. Shankar Aswani: 4-7
The Archaeology of Head-hunting in Roviana Lagoon, New Georgia. Peter Sheppard, Richard Walter and Takuya Nagaoka: 9-37
Changing Identities: The Ethnohistory of Roviana Predatory Head-hunting. Shankar Aswani: 39-70
Skulls, Mana and Causality. Christine Dureau: 71-97
Paths of Pinauzu: Captivity and Social Reproductions in Ranongga. Debra McDougall: 99-113
An Artefact/Image Text of Head-hunting Motifs. Deborah Waite: 115-144

Special issue June 1999: Kie Hingoa 'Named Mats', 'Ie Töga 'Fine Mats' and other Treasured Textiles of Samoa and Tonga.

Special issue March 2000: Essays on Head-hunting in the Western Solomon Islands.

Special Issue September 2003: Postcolonial Dilemmas: Reappraising Justice and identity in New Zealand and Australia