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  • The latest issue of The Contemporary Pacific (19:1, 2007) features a wide range of topics. The articles focus on exploring the concept of mental illness in Tonga; the agency of modern clothing and traditional body decoration among North Mekeo of Papua New Guinea; constructing national identity in Fiji; Pacific Islands trade, labor, and security; diasporic deracination of “off-island” Hawaiians; and some observations on the television series Survivor Vanuatu. The featured art in this issue is by Samoan and Japanese visual and performance artist Shigeyuki Kihara.
  •  Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject, by Regis Tove Stella is the latest volume in the center’s Pacific Islands Monograph Series (PIMS). Much has been written about Papua New Guinea over the last century and too often in ways that legitimated or served colonial interests through highly pejorative and racist descriptions of Papua New Guineans. In Imagining the Other, Regis Tove Stella pays special attention to early travel literature, works of fiction, and colonial reports, laws, and legislation to reveal the complex and persistent network of discursive strategies deployed to subjugate the land and its people. Regis Tove Stella, from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, is director of the Melanesian Institute of Arts and Communications and a faculty member in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea.

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