PACS601/602/603: Researching Oceania: Creative and Conventional Methods of Inquiry

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"Dedicated to the analysis and dissemination of native indigenous knowledge that uniquely belongs to cultural, traditional, tribal and aboriginal peoples as well as first-nations, from around the world. AlterNative spans themes of origins, place, peoples, community, culture, traditional and oral history, heritage, colonialism, power, intervention, development and self-determination."

Available online with UHM login. "The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology publishes social and cultural anthropological research with a focus on the Asia Pacific region, including Australia."

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Vol 1 (1989) - Vol 30 (2018) available to all via ScholarSpace.
Vol 31 (2019) available via Project MUSE and requires a UHM login.
A premier journal of Pacific scholarship, produced by the UH-Mānoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies.

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"The Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology (JICA) is aimed at archaeologists and other scientists with interests in the archaeology and historical ecology of islands and other coastal settings. ... It is the goal of the journal to publish high quality, peer-reviewed research papers that contribute to a better understanding of the role islands and coastal regions played in the development of human societies over space and time." Quoted from online aim & scope text.

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"Carries scholarly and critical essays on all aspects of New Zealand literature and cultural studies"

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"peer-reviewed research on the archaeology of the islands and continental margins of the Pacific Ocean. It replaces the New Zealand Journal of Archaeology (volumes 1-30, published 1979-2008)." Quoted from online scope and focus statement.

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Vol 1 (1966) - current issue available with UHM login.

A peer-reviewed e-journal that replaced the South Pacific Journal of Psychology (published between 1984 and 2005). Coverage includes Oceania (including Hawaiʻi), Australasia, East Asia and the Western U.S. Access is via a subscription database.

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Vol 1 (1892) - Vol 124 (2015) available to all.
Vol 121 (2012) - current available with UHM login.
"Provided a major forum for discussion of the history, ethnology, archaeology, biological anthropology, sociology and linguistics of Māori and other Pacific Islands people since 1892. It publishes the Journal of the Polynesian Society quarterly as well as an extensive memoir series."

Vol 66 (1996) - current issue available online with UHM login.
Contributions in the field of social and cultural anthropology. Its primary regional orientation is to the peoples of Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and insular southeast Asia.

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Oceanic Linguistics is devoted to the study of the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia. The languages within the scope of the journal are the original languages of Australia, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) family.

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Contains both original works in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, translations, and reproductions of 19th century newspaper articles. The journal has a mix of pieces in both English and ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.

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Founded at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994, this peer-reviewed research journal explores journalism, media issues, communication and diversity in the South Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. It is published by the Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, AUT University, and has links with the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism and the University of the South Pacific.

An international journal with Pacific coverage.
Physical holdings: v.37:no.1(1996:Apr.)-
Available online here with UHM login. "Asia Pacific Viewpoint publishes academic research in geography and allied disciplines on the economic and social development of the Asia Pacific. Particular attention is paid to the interplay between development and the environment and to the growing interconnections between countries in the region."

Available online with some content requiring UHM login. "The journal is published by the Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia."

Available online via the Fiji Institute of Applied Studies.

Available online from the University of Auckland. Published twice a year, peer-reviewed electronic journal that showcases the original work of graduate students publishing thought-provoking interdisciplinary articles, reviews, commentary and visual works that engage critical issues, themes and debates related to the Asia-Pacific region and its peoples.

"Topics addressed by the journal include indigenous ontologies and systems of knowledge, forms of human engagement and relationality, cosmology and myth, magic, witchcraft and sorcery, truth and falsehood, indigenous theories of kinship and relatedness with humans and non-humans, hierarchy, materiality, perception, environment and space, time and temporality, personhood and subjectivity, alternative metaphysics of morality." (Quoted from website)

Although weighted somewhat more toward Asian countries and subjects, there is also a good amount of Pacific content in this Australian National University publication.

An interdisciplinary journal produced at the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada. Covers all islands, but has substantial Pacific content. The official journal of the International Small Islands Studies Association.

"The Journal of Indigenous Social Development (JISD), formerly the Journal of Indigenous Voices in Social Work (JIVSW), is a peer reviewed, web-based, open access journal that is dedicated to improving social work practice and expanding knowledge relevant to indigenous peoples and communities in which they live. Articles published in JISD are intended for readers and contributors who work and live in indigenous communities, as well as those in the university research and social work practice communities. The articles are intended to reflect these diverse communities and perspectives." (quoted from website)

"JPE is a peer reviewed journal, one of the longest standing, Gold Open Access journals in the social sciences. It encourages research into the linkages between political economy and human environmental impacts across different locations and academic disciplines." (Quoted from home-page)

Publishes articles concerning "a wide range of legal materials with a focus on laws of the South Pacific region and on issues of interest to legal researchers within the region." (Quoted from home-page)

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Continued by Language and Linguistics in Melanesia.

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"A peer-reviewed linguistic journal which ... seeks to publish original articles dealing with the languages of Papua New Guinea and Melanesia." (Quoted from website.). Continues Kivung.

"...a fully refereed, open-access journal...[that] publishes papers on all topics related to language documentation and conservation, including, but not limited to, the goals of language documentation, data management, fieldwork methods, ethical issues, orthography design, reference grammar design, lexicography, methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality, biocultural diversity, archiving matters, language planning, areal survey reports, short field reports on endangered or underdocumented languages, reports on language maintenance, preservation, and revitalization efforts, plus reviews of software, hardware, books, and (from 2012) data collections." (quoted from home-page)

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In print 1964 - 2006.
Available online 2008 - present via the University of Guam.

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Contains both original works in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, translations, and reproductions of 19th century newspaper articles. The journal has a mix of pieces in both English and ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.

"Peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to showcasing works on the Pacific Asia region and to advancing knowledge and understanding of the region. Pacific Asia has long been the focus of intense cultural, political and economic interaction with other world regions, and it is the central theme of this journal."

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Vol 1 (1977) – Vol 25 (2002) available for all.
Published quarterly, a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the peoples of the Pacific Islands. Covers Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, Economics, Ethnomusicology, Folklore, Geography, History, Sociolinguistics, Political Science, Sociology, and Literary Studies.

"Shima publishes: Theoretical and/or comparative studies of island cultures (and/or diasporic island communities); Case studies of island cultures; Accounts of collaborative research and development projects in island cultures; Analyses of fictional representations of islands and 'islandness.'" (Quoted from home-page)

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Published between 1984 and 2005. Selected full-text is available online at this site. In 2007, this journal was continued by the online Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology.

"An open access, multi-disciplinary, refereed, electronic journal with a focus on indigenous issues in the Pacific region. It is supported by Te Ara Poutama – the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Development – at AUT University. It accepts but is not limited to articles dealing with language, culture, art, history, anthropology, development studies, and other disciplines associated with the indigenous peoples of the Pacific. The journal’s primary purpose is to provide a forum for the publication of original research which helps to expand the knowledge of the indigenous peoples and cultures of the Pacific."