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Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian & Pacific Studies

Volume 39

Volume 39 Numbers 1/2- April/August 2016

Contents

Introduction

Names Redux: Person, Structure, Change

LAMONT LINDSTORM AND KUN-HUI KU

Names, Structure, and Personhood

Nomination and Social Reproduction

LAMONT LINDSTORM

Totemic Names on Aneityum, Vanuatu

LATHAM T. WOOD

Naming in Kanak Groups: Names, Relations, and Personal Identity

Among the Paici Kanak (Ponerihourn, New Caledonia)

ISABELLE LEBLIC

Naming and Social Life: The Case of the Pinuyumayan (Puyuma)

People in Eastern Taiwan

WEN-TE CHEN

Name as Resources: Naming as Strategic Practice

Names as a Means of Inclusion and Transformation: Naming and

Transcultural Kinship Among the Wampar, Papua New Guinea

DORIS BACALZO

"I am a Grandparent and My Name Is Good": Status, Food, and

Gender Among the Kelabit of Sarawak

MONICA JANOWSKI

Naming Relationship and Constructing Hierarchy: Names, Value, and

Hierarchy Among the Austronesian Paiwan, Taiwan

KUN-HUI KU

Name Transformations

Naming and Name Changing in Postcolonial Madagascar

DENIS REGNIER

Entering God's Family: The Adoption of Christian Names n the Early

Bunun Presbyterian Church, Eastern Taiwan

CHUN-WEI FANG

Namoluk Onomatology: Two Centuries of Personal Naming Practices

MAC MARSHALL

Contributors

Volume 39 Number 3- December 2016

Contents

Research is Relational: Exploring Researcher Identities and Colonial

Echoes in Pacific and Indigenous Studies

Tui Nicole Clery, Acacia Dawn Cochise, and Robin Metcalf

Fiji's Electoral Strategies: A Comparative Perspective

Sanjay Ramesh

Putting Kanak to Work: Kanak and the Colonial Labor System

in New Caledonia

Adrian Muckle

Book Reviews

Being Political: Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands

(Lamont Lindstrom)

Don't Ever Whisper: Darlene Keju, Pacific Health Pioneer,

Champion for Nuclear Survivors

(Miriam Kahn)

Books Noted

Recent Pacific Islands Publications: Selected Acquisitions,

January 2014-December 2014

Zoi Falevai

Contributors

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