Negotiating Grandparenting: Styles and Strategies
in a
Changing
Pacific
Special Issue
of
Pacific Studies 30(3/4)
2007
edited
by
M. Jocelyn Armstrong
and
Juliana Flinn
from 2004 Symposium
Guest Editors' Preface
Jocelyn Armstrong and Juliana Flinn
Introduction: The practice and prospects of grandparenting in the Pacific
Dorothy Ayers Counts
Styles
GrandGrandmothering and social old age: Aotearoa New Zealand variations
on a universal theme
M. Jocelyn Armstrong
In my nana’s house: Grandparent households in Fiji
Sela Panapasa
Grandparenting styles in an urban/rural borderland in New Zealand
Sally Keeling
Grandparenting among the Chamorros of Guam
Vicki Torsch
Strategies
Continuing to be a mother: Grandmothering on Pollap
Juliana Flinn
Changing contexts for grandparent adoption on Raivavae, French Polynesia
Jeanette Dickerson-Putman
Continuities and changes in Marshallese grandparenting
Laurence Marshall Carucci
Epilogue: A new look at grandparenting
Francoise Douaire-Marsaudon and Alan Howard