Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

Volume 48 (2014) of the Hawaiian Journal of History is now available online via eVols , the UH-M Library digital repository devoted to materials produced outside of the UH System. (The Library also maintains a separate digital repository, Scholarspace, for materials produced within the UH system.) Back issues through Volume 1 (1967) are also available in eVols, along with indexes. The Hawaiian Journal of History is also indexed in the Hawaii-Pacific Journal Index . More information on the HJH can be found on its website .

The latest issue of The Contemporary Pacific (Vol. 25, number 2, Fall 2013) has been released, and is available to UH students, faculty and affiliates via Project Muse . The latest issue features art from the 11th Festival of Pacific Arts, which was held in the Solomon Islands in 2012, with cover art (pictured here) by Alisa Vavataga. (As with all recent issues, the featured art is reproduced in full color in the online version of TCP ). Articles include writing by Erik K. Silverman ("After Cannibal Tours : Cargoism and Marginality in a Post-touristic Sepik River Society"), Lorenz Gonschor ("Mai te hau Roma ra te huru: The Illusion of "Autonomy" and the Ongoing Struggle for Decolonization in French Polynesia"), an interview with Oscar Temaru, and much more. As a reminder, all back issues of The Contemporary Pacific (prior to one year from the present) are also freely available on the Internet via UH-Manoa Library's Scholarspace digital repository...

The Annie E. Casey Foundation's annual Kids Count databook is an important source of statistical information on a variety of subjects. The 2013 edition was recently, released, and can be downloaded from the Kids Count Data Center .

The Hawaiian Journal of History will launch Volume 46 on February 7 with a special presentation on the life of the 19th-century Hawaiian scholar, politician and athlete John Henry Wise. The event begins at 7 p.m. at the Kamakauokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies. For more information, click on the flyers above.

Another round of Hawai'i- or Pacific-related electronic books have been added to the Hamilton libraries, to further enhance accessibility to high-use titles. The recent batch includes: Title : Endangered Languages of Austronesia Author : Florey, Margaret eISBN : 0191571210 Access URL : http://www.UHM.eblib.com/ patron/FullRecord.aspx?p= 472258 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title : Tourism and National Identity Author : Frew, Elspeth; White, Leanne eISBN : 1135146845 Access URL : http://www.UHM.eblib.com/ patron/FullRecord.aspx?p= 669201 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title : Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology Author : Craig, Robert D. eISBN : 0313069468 Access URL : http://www.UHM.eblib.com/ patron/FullRecord.aspx?p= 494982 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title : Language, Space, and Social Relationships : A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia Author : Bennardo, Giovanni eISBN : 0511539932 Access URL : http://www.UHM.eblib.com/ patron/FullRecord.aspx?p= 442859 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

The latest issue of The Contemporary Pacific (Vol. 23, number 2, Fall 2011) has been released, and is available to UH students, faculty and affiliates via Project Muse . The latest issue features cover art (pictured at right) by Solomon Enos as well as articles by April K. Henderson ("Fleeting Sustainability: The Samoan Giant in US Popular Discourse"); Cluny Macpherson and La'avasa Macpherson ("Churches and the Economy of Samoa"); Michael P.J. Reilly ("Maori Studies, Past and Present: A Review"); Guido Carlo Pigliasco and Thorolf Lipp ("The Islands Have Memory: Reflections on Two Collaborative Projects in Contemporary Oceania"); and Brij V. Lal ("Where Has All the Music Gone? Reflections on the Fortieth Anniversary of Fiji's Independence"). Also included are the standard range of Political, Book and Media reviews.  As a reminder, all back issues of The Contemporary Pacific (prior to one year from the present) are also ...