scholarly journals Far Flung IslandsDeryck Scarr, Fragments of Empire. A History of the Western Pacific High Commission, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1967, 367 pages.

1969 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-90
Author(s):  
T. M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Western Pacific ◽  
National University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Western Pacific

scholarly journals Divergent northern and southern populations and demographic history of the pearl oyster in the western Pacific revealed with genomic SNPs

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 837-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeshi Takeuchi ◽  
Tetsuji Masaoka ◽  
Hideo Aoki ◽  
Ryo Koyanagi ◽  
Manabu Fujie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Demographic History ◽  
Pearl Oyster ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Western Pacific

The Chamorro Creation Story, Guam Land Struggles, and Contemporary Poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Craig Santos Perez
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Related Issue ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Western Pacific

Abstract This essay focuses on the creation story of the Indigenous Chamorro people from the western Pacific Island of Guam. The essay presents and analyzes the deeper meaning of the story of Puntan and Fu’una as they birth the island of Guam and the Chamorro people. Moreover, it maps the history of Catholic missionization that displaced and replaced the Chamorro creation story. The essay covers the related issue of how colonization removed Chamorros from their ancestral lands and appropriated these lands for imperial, military, tourism, and urban development. Then it highlights the decades-long struggle of Chamorro activists to reclaim the land. Lastly, it turns to contemporary Chamorro poetry to illustrate how authors have revitalized and retold the story of Puntan and Fu’una to critique and protest the degradation of Chamorro lands and to advocate for the protection and return of the land.

The Contours of Agency

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey Banivanua Mar
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
The Past ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Colonial Histories ◽  
The Western Pacific

This chapter examines photographs of Pacific Island women laboring in fields in Queensland in the late 1890s, arguing that colonial photography can be a critical means of filling archival silences. It reflects on how we may read this photography in layers, both as a candid snapshot of the physical world of the past, as well as a more subtle register of that world's ideological composition. This is significant in the context of colonial histories in the western Pacific and Australia where indigenous and colonized women's labor, and their contribution to colonial and colonized societies, has been subjected to the violence of a structural amnesia. Photography offers not only visual evidence of a barely told history of Pacific Islander women's labor as told through the agency of their physical presentation. In addition, the medium itself, the photograph and its visual language, points in interesting ways to the discursive contours that shaped indigenous and colonized women's agency.

Early life history of tropical Anguilla leptocephali in the western Pacific Ocean

2001 ◽  
Vol 138 (5) ◽  
pp. 887-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arai T. ◽  
Aoyama J. ◽  
Ishikawa S. ◽  
Miller M. ◽  
Otake T. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Early Life History ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Western Pacific Ocean ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Western Pacific

scholarly journals Melanesian tok stori in leadership development: Ontological and relational implications for donor-funded programmes in the Western Pacific

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kabini Sanga ◽  
Martyn Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Group Communication ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
The Core ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Western Pacific

© 2018, Flinders University. Donor-funded programmes in areas such as leadership development take place in every continent. In the Western Pacific, Melanesia has been host to such programmes based on non-Melanesian thought and practice over the years. However, a review of donor-funded leadership programmes in the region reveals a history of concern regarding effectiveness but no significant change in programme orientation. This article provides a counter-story of a donor-funded leadership programme which utilizes a readily available cultural model of thought and practice of Indigenous origin: tok stori. Tok stori is a form of discursive group communication which is an everyday occurrence in Melanesia. The experiences of leadership mentors operating in a tok stori-centred leadership development programme located in the Solomon Islands provide an opportunity to explore and evaluate what cultural wisdom can contribute as the core of a leadership development programme. The benefits are many: leaders benefit when complex contextual matters can be introduced into leadership development by the openness of tok stori; depth of engagement is supported by the development of mentor-leader relationality as an integral part of the tok stori process; and mentors gain increased expertise in using a cultural form with which they are already familiar in new pedagogical contexts. Ultimately, this is a story of the value of honouring important aspects of culture for those who inhabit the ontology which gives them significance. Re-negotiating the way the cultures of donors and recipients are regarded by programme developers is an important factor in the centring of Indigenous thinking and practices such as tok stori in leadership and other person-centred programmes. The lesson of this article is that there are gains available to all where this occurs.

Sargassum muticum: a taxonomic history including world-wide and western Pacific distributions

1983 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 617-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan T. Critchley
Keyword(s):  
Species Group ◽  
Sargassum Muticum ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Western Pacific Region ◽  
Reproductive Structures ◽  
The World ◽  
Taxonomic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Western Pacific

Sargassum muticum(Yendo) Fensholt was first described from Japan as the formamuticus(sic.) ofS. kjellmanianumYendo. Subsequently,s. kjellmanianumandS. miyabeiYendo have been recognised as conspecific with dioecious reproductive structures.S. muticumis monoecious. The taxonomic history ofS. muticumand confusions arising are presented.The spread ofSargassum muticum to regionsof the world outside of Japan is illustrated. A distribution map ofS. kjellmanianum, S. miyabeiandS. muticumin the western Pacific is also presented with a discussion of this selected species group. Further work is required to determine the exact extent ofS. muticumin the western Pacific region.

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