EWSLETTER Room 5, George Annex 8 (Telephone: x8934, if no answer, x7830) Vol. VIII: 3 Nov. 30, 1975

WHO'S GOING INTO THE PACIFIC

Mrs. Sumi Mackey (Open Grants), , November 21- December 11, 1975. Mr. Wilbur Schramm (EWC Communications), Suva & American Samoa, November 28 -December 6, 1975

Conference The Pacific Islands Studies Program and the International Student Office, University of - Manoa Campus are jointly sponsoring a one-day conference to be held on the Manoa Campus December 1, 1975. Conference participants will include both students and faculty representing University of Hawaii system institutia.s from Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, and Oahu. The conference will focus attention on problems, programs, needs, assistance, and so on associated with Pacific Islander students who are either presently attending University of Hawaii higher education institutions or who are contemplating attendance. Mr. Ted Woodin has assumed major planning and coordination responsibilities.

History Lectures The Bishop Museum has announced a seven lecture series in Polynesian history which will be presented by their Anthropology staff on Saturday mornings, 9:30- 11:30, January 17 through February 28. Lectures to be presented include:

Polynesian Migration Theories - Marion Kelly Evidence of Western Polynesia: Archaeological and Cultural - Patrick Kirch Tonga, Heartland of Polynesia - Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler The Leeward Society Islands, A Dispersal Center? - Dr. Yoshikio Sinoto Easter Island: Fact and Fancy - Dr. Patrick McCoy What the Archaeological Evidence Reveals in Hawaii - Dr. Kenneth Emory Chants and Songs: What they Tell Us - Eleanor Williamson

Additional information may be obtained from Willis Moor, Museum Education Coordinator.

Development Studies Centre The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies conducts seminars, organizes special training courses, and undertakes interdisciplinary research. Persons who wish to be kept informed of publications, seminars, or other general activities of the Centre are invited to notify the Administrative Secretary, Development Studies Centre, The Australian University, P.O. Box 4, Canberra, 2600 A.C.T. Australia. Publications Enclosed you will find information regarding the Publications of the South Pacific Social Sciences Association. Pacific Perspective, Journal of the SPSSA is now firmly established and has appeared regularly for the past three years. Publications of the SOUTH PACIFIC SOCIAL SCIENCES ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 5083 Suva,

Pacific Perspective, Journal of the South Pacific Social Sciences Association (SPSSA). Published twice yearly, this journal is now firmly established and has appeared regularly for the past three years. Subscription includes mem- bership in the SPSSA 3 years $12.00* 1 year 4.50

Publications Available

No. 1 The Solomons Community ~n Fiji by A. Kuva. . . 1. 00

No. 2 Indian Indentured Workers ~n Fiji by s. Prasad 1. 00 No. 3 at War by A. Ravuvu. 1.00 No. 4 Living in Town edited by John Harre (see below). 3.00 No. 5 The Part-European Community by s. Simpson .. 1.00 No. 6 Holy Torture in Fiji by Huneshwar Sahadeo et al. 4.50 No. 7 The Pacific Way edited by Sione Tupouniua et al. 6.75 No. 8 A Chinese Community in Fiji by A. Fong 1.00 No. 9 The Chinese in the Pacific by Sin Joan Yee 1. 00 No. 10 Rotuman Marriage by Tiu Malo . . . . 1. 00

To Be Released Soon

No. 11 The Electoral by John Chick No. 12 If I Live by Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe

In Preparation

No. 13 Women of Fiji by Eta Baro et al. No. 14 Moana: A History of the Pacific Islands written by Pacific Islanders No. 15 Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna by Filipe Bole

Living in Town edited by John Harre Currently being reprinted in response to demand. A selection of the papers first delivered at the Second Pacific Seminar. Con­ tributors include both academics and administrators, some from the region and some from overseas. The emphasis of this collection of papers is on the way in which the planning process affects the social well-being of the urban people of the South Pacific. Extensive bibliography.

LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE: N. GROGAN, P.O. Box 2193, , HI. 96805

*Prices are in Fiji $. $1 Fiji = $1.20 u.s. Reduced prices are available on orders of 20 or more.