Island Rivers: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania (2018)

Wagner, John R. and Jerry K. Jacka (EDs.)

1. Introduction: River as Ethnographic Subject  
John R. Wagner, Jerry K. Jacka, Edvard Hviding, Alexander Mawyer, and Mara Muru-Lanning

2. The River, the Water and the Crocodile in Marovo Lagoon 
Edvard Hviding

3. A Source of Power, Disquiet and Biblical Purport: The Jordan River in Santo, Vanuatu
Carlos Mondragón 

4. Unflowing Pasts, Lost Springs and Watery Mysteries in Eastern Polynesia 
Alexander Mawyer

5. Riverine Disposal of Mining Wastes in Porgera: Capitalist Resource Development and Metabolic Rifts in Papua New Guinea
Jerry K. Jacka

6. ‘At Every Bend a Chief, At Every Bend a Chief, Waikato of One Hundred Chiefs’: Mapping the Socio-Political Life of the Waikato River
Marama Muru-Lanning

7. Waters of Destruction: Mythical Creatures, Boiling Pots and Tourist Encounters at Wailuku River in Hilo, Hawai‘i
Elin Holtan Torgersen

8. The Sepik River, Papua New Guinea: Nourishing Tradition and Modern Catastrophe
Eric K. Silverman

9. Rivers of Memory and Forgetting
John R. Wagner