Redefining the Pacific? (eBook)

Jenny Bryant-Tokalau is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where she teaches Contemporary Pacific Cultures and Cultural Interpretations of Environment and Nature. As former Associate Professor of Geography at the University of the South Pacific (Fiji), and head of the Global Environment Facility unit for UNDP in Suva, she authored a number of publications and reports on poverty and development. Jenny's current research interests include poverty, inequality and environment linkages in the Pacific, and issues of environmental governance. Ian Frazer has recently retired as Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Otago. His research interests include the history & political economy of the independent Melanesian states especially Solomon Islands; the study of work; historical sociology. He also served as head of Anthropology at Otago University for a number of years before he retired.