Contributors.

John Barker, “Christianity in Western Melanesian Ethnography.”
Barker received his M.A. from Victoria University, in Wellington, New Zealand, and his Ph.D. (1985) from the University of British Columbia, where he is presently assistant professor of anthropology. He conducted field research on Christianity and tapa cloth among the Maisin people of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, in 1981–1983 and 1986, and has also undertaken historical research on missionaries and pioneer ethnographers in Melanesia and British Columbia. He has published several articles and chapters on Maisin religion and is editor of Christianity in Oceania: Ethnographic Perspectives. Address: Department of Anthropology and Sociology, The University of British Columbia, 6303 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2B2.

James G. Carrier, “Approaches to Articulation.”
After receiving his M.A. in sociology from the University of Virginia, Carrier studied the sociologies of science and education as a research student at the London School of Economics, receiving his doctorate in 1977. He accompanied his wife, Achsah Carrier, as she did fieldwork on Ponam Island, in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, in 1978 and 1979 and intermittently from then until 1986. His main areas of interest were economics, education, and migration. From 1980 to 1986 he was in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Papua New Guinea. With Achsah Carrier he has written extensively on Ponam society, most recently Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia and Structure and Process in a Melanesian Society. Address: 29, University Circle, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22903.

Bronwen Douglas, “Doing Ethnographic History.”
Douglas received a doctorate in Pacific history from the Australian National University in 1973 and currently is a senior lecturer in history at La Trobe

University. Her main research interests are leadership in south Pacific societies, culture contacts, fighting, symbolism, and ritual in New Caledonia, and writing ethnographic history. She has done extensive research in Marist archives in Rome and the Pacific and in the French national archives, and has done repeated fieldwork in New Caledonia. She has published extensively, especially in the Journal of Pacific History and the Journal of the Polynesian Society.

Address: History Department, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083.

Margaret Jolly, “Banana Leaf Bundles and Skirts.”
Jolly studied anthropology and history at the University of Sydney, completing her doctorate there in 1979, a study of the effects of colonialism on the gender relations of the kastom communities of South Pentecost, Vanuatu. Since her fieldwork in Vanuatu, she has done archival work in Australia, Britain, and France, and is currently writing Engendering Colonialism: Women and History in Vanuatu. She has published extensively both in anthropological and feminist journals, and she is editor, with Martha Macintyre, of Family and Gender in the Pacific: Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact. Since 1975 she has been a member of the Department of Anthropology and Comparative Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney, where she is presently a Senior Lecturer teaching on Pacific colonialism, Melanesia, feminist anthropology, and women and development. She was a Research Fellow in Anthropology in the research groups on gender (1983) and the Comparative Austronesian Project (1989–1990) at the Research School of Pacific Studies of the Australian National University.

Address: Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109.

Roger Keesing, “Kwaisulia as Culture Hero.”
Keesing was Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, at the time this collection was being organized. More recently he has taken a position at McGill University. Trained at Stanford and Harvard, he formerly taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has done extensive research in the Solomon Islands and the Indian Himalayas. He is author of Kwaio Religion, Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate, 'Elota's Story: The Life and Times of a Solomon Islands Big Man, and, with Peter Corris, Lighting Meets the West Wind: The Malaita Massacre.

Address: Department of Anthropology, McGill University, 855, Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T7.

Nicholas Thomas, “Substantivization and Anthropological Discourse.”
Thomas was a research fellow at King's College, Cambridge, and is now a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at the Australian National University. He studied

archaeology, anthropology, and Pacific history at the Australian National University, completing a doctorate on early Marquesan society in 1986. He has conducted archival research on the culture and history of Polynesia, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands in Australia, the United States, Britain, France, and Italy, as well as various repositories in the islands themselves. He has done field research in the Marquesas and western Fiji. His research interests include indigenous social dynamics, gender, exchange, colonial history, and the history of anthropology. His publications include Planets around the Sun: Dynamics and Contradictions of the Fijian matanitu, Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse, and Marquesan Societies: Inequality and Political Transformation in Eastern Polynesia. As well, he is a coeditor of Sanctity and Power: Gender in Pacific History, a special issue of the Journal of Pacific History. Address: Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, The Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT, 2601.

Michael W. Young, “Gone Native in Isles of Illusion.”
Young was born in Manchester, England, in 1937. After indifferent schooling he fled to the South Seas. On his return he narrowly escaped being absorbed into his father's ironmongery business, and studied anthropology instead. After five years at University College, London, he returned to the Antipodes to study for a Ph.D. at the Australian National University. He then taught at Cambridge for four years, returning to the ANU in 1975, where he remains today as a Senior Fellow in the Research School of Pacific Studies. He has conducted fieldwork in the islands of Goodenough and Ferguson and in Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea, Halmahera in Indonesia, and most recently Epi Island in Vanuatu. He is the author of Fighting with Food, The Ethnography of Malinowski, Magicians of Manumanua, and Malinowski among the Magi. Young lives in Canberra and edits Canberra Anthropology. He enjoys climbing small mountains, cooking exotic meals, and listening to Mozart and Pink Floyd.

Address: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT, 2601.