other asao publications
A volume or special journal issue arising from a series of ASAO sessions may be designated an "ASAO publication" after publication, with the approval of the ASAO Board.
The implications of designating a volume or special issue as an ASAO publication are that it can be listed on the ASAO website as such (with a link to the publisher's site for ordering information), and all contributors who are ASAO members attain the status of ASAO Fellow. It will also be announced in the ASAO Newsletter.
To have a publication considered for designation as an ASAO Publication, send to the ASAO Secretary the following information:
The following have been recognized as ASAO Publications:
The implications of designating a volume or special issue as an ASAO publication are that it can be listed on the ASAO website as such (with a link to the publisher's site for ordering information), and all contributors who are ASAO members attain the status of ASAO Fellow. It will also be announced in the ASAO Newsletter.
To have a publication considered for designation as an ASAO Publication, send to the ASAO Secretary the following information:
- table of contents, including titles & authors
- dates of ASAO sessions during which it was developed
- URL for the publisher's site where ordering information for the volume or special journal issue can be found
The following have been recognized as ASAO Publications:
stand-alone volumes:
Ballard, Chris, Paula Brown, R. Michael Bourke, and Tracey Harwood (eds.)
2005 The Sweet Potato in Oceania: A Reappraisal. Ethnology Monographs 19, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh; Oceania Monograph 56, Sydney: University of Sydney
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Barker, John (ed.)
2007 The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond: Papers Presented to Kenelm Burridge. Burlington VT: Ashgate. [from 2003 Symposium]
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Brenneis, Donald Lawrence, and Fred R. Myers (eds.)
1984 Dangerous Words: Language and Politics in the Pacific. New York & London: New York University Press (reissued 1991 by Waveland Press). [From 1980 Symposium]
Leslie Butt and Richard Eves (eds)
2008 Making sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia.Honolulu: University of Hawai'i [from 2005 Symposium] Ordering Information
DeVita, Philip R. (ed.)
1990 The Humbled Anthropologist: Tales from the Pacific. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company. [from 1988 Working Session]
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Dunis, Serge (ed.)
2008 Sexual Snakes, Winged Maidens and Sky Gods, Nouméa, New Caledonia: Le Rocher-à-la-Voile and Papeete - Tahiti, French Polynesia: Editions Haere Po [from 2004 Symposium]
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Feinberg, Richard (ed.)
1995 Seafaring in the Contemporary Pacific Islands: Studies in Continuity and Change. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. [from 1991 Symposium]
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Feinberg, Richard, and Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo (eds.)
1996 Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific: Essays presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology 66. London: Athlone Press. [from 1991 Special Session]
Flinn, Juliana, Leslie Marshall, and Jocelyn Armstrong (eds.)
1998 Fieldwork and Families: Constructing New Models for Ethnographic Research. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [from 1994 Symposium]
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Foster, Robert J., ed.
1995 Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [from 1991 Working Session]
Gewertz, Deborah and Edward Schieffelin (eds.)
1985 History and Ethnohistory in Papua New Guinea. Sydney: Oceania Monograph 28. [from 1982 Symposium]
Jaarsma, Sjoerd R., and Marta A. Rohatynskyj (eds.)
2000 Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press [from 1996 Symposium]
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Linnekin, Jocelyn, and Lin Poyer (eds.)
1990 Cultural Identity and Ethnicity in the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [from 1985 Symposium]
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Lohmann, Roger Ivar (ed.)
2003 Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [from 2000 Symposium]
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Lutkehaus, Nancy C., and Paul B. Roscoe (eds.)
1995 Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Melanesia. New York and London: Routledge. [from 1988 Symposium]
Mageo, Jeannette Marie, and Alan Howard (eds.)
1996 Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind. New York: Routledge. [from 1992 Symposium]
Mageo, Jeannette Marie (ed.)
2001 Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [from 1999 Symposium]
Makihara, Miki, and Bambi B. Schieffelin (eds.)
2007. Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies. Oxford University Press. [from 2005 Symposium]
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Marshall, Leslie B. (ed.)
1985 Infant Care and Feeding in the South Pacific. New York: Gordon and Breach. [from 1983 Symposium]
O'Brien, Denise and Sharon Tiffany (eds.)
1984 Rethinking Women's Roles: Perspectives from the Pacific. Berkeley: University of California Press [from 1980 Symposium]
Rensel, Jan, and Margaret Rodman (eds.)
1997 Home in the Islands: Housing and Social Change in the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [from 1994 Symposium]
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White, Geoffrey M., and John Kirkpatrick (eds.)
1985 Person, Self and Experience: Exploring Pacific Ethnopsychologies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. [from 1982 Symposium]
White, Geoffrey M., and Lamont Lindstrom (eds.)
1989 The Pacific Theater: Island Representations of World War II. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, no. 8. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [from 1985 Symposium]
White, Geoffrey M., and Lamont Lindstrom (eds.)
1997 Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State. Stanford: Stanford University Press. [from 1993 Symposium]
Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Laura and Jeanette Dickerson-Putman (eds.)
2008 Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale. Urbana: University of Illinois [from 2003 Special Session]
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2005 The Sweet Potato in Oceania: A Reappraisal. Ethnology Monographs 19, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh; Oceania Monograph 56, Sydney: University of Sydney
Ordering Information
Barker, John (ed.)
2007 The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond: Papers Presented to Kenelm Burridge. Burlington VT: Ashgate. [from 2003 Symposium]
Ordering Information
Brenneis, Donald Lawrence, and Fred R. Myers (eds.)
1984 Dangerous Words: Language and Politics in the Pacific. New York & London: New York University Press (reissued 1991 by Waveland Press). [From 1980 Symposium]
Leslie Butt and Richard Eves (eds)
2008 Making sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia.Honolulu: University of Hawai'i [from 2005 Symposium] Ordering Information
DeVita, Philip R. (ed.)
1990 The Humbled Anthropologist: Tales from the Pacific. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company. [from 1988 Working Session]
Ordering Information
Dunis, Serge (ed.)
2008 Sexual Snakes, Winged Maidens and Sky Gods, Nouméa, New Caledonia: Le Rocher-à-la-Voile and Papeete - Tahiti, French Polynesia: Editions Haere Po [from 2004 Symposium]
Free Download
Feinberg, Richard (ed.)
1995 Seafaring in the Contemporary Pacific Islands: Studies in Continuity and Change. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. [from 1991 Symposium]
Ordering Information
Feinberg, Richard, and Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo (eds.)
1996 Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific: Essays presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology 66. London: Athlone Press. [from 1991 Special Session]
Flinn, Juliana, Leslie Marshall, and Jocelyn Armstrong (eds.)
1998 Fieldwork and Families: Constructing New Models for Ethnographic Research. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [from 1994 Symposium]
Ordering Information
Foster, Robert J., ed.
1995 Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [from 1991 Working Session]
Gewertz, Deborah and Edward Schieffelin (eds.)
1985 History and Ethnohistory in Papua New Guinea. Sydney: Oceania Monograph 28. [from 1982 Symposium]
Jaarsma, Sjoerd R., and Marta A. Rohatynskyj (eds.)
2000 Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press [from 1996 Symposium]
Ordering Information
Linnekin, Jocelyn, and Lin Poyer (eds.)
1990 Cultural Identity and Ethnicity in the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [from 1985 Symposium]
Ordering Information
Lohmann, Roger Ivar (ed.)
2003 Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [from 2000 Symposium]
Ordering Information
Lutkehaus, Nancy C., and Paul B. Roscoe (eds.)
1995 Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Melanesia. New York and London: Routledge. [from 1988 Symposium]
Mageo, Jeannette Marie, and Alan Howard (eds.)
1996 Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind. New York: Routledge. [from 1992 Symposium]
Mageo, Jeannette Marie (ed.)
2001 Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [from 1999 Symposium]
Makihara, Miki, and Bambi B. Schieffelin (eds.)
2007. Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies. Oxford University Press. [from 2005 Symposium]
Ordering Information
Marshall, Leslie B. (ed.)
1985 Infant Care and Feeding in the South Pacific. New York: Gordon and Breach. [from 1983 Symposium]
O'Brien, Denise and Sharon Tiffany (eds.)
1984 Rethinking Women's Roles: Perspectives from the Pacific. Berkeley: University of California Press [from 1980 Symposium]
Rensel, Jan, and Margaret Rodman (eds.)
1997 Home in the Islands: Housing and Social Change in the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [from 1994 Symposium]
Ordering Information
White, Geoffrey M., and John Kirkpatrick (eds.)
1985 Person, Self and Experience: Exploring Pacific Ethnopsychologies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. [from 1982 Symposium]
White, Geoffrey M., and Lamont Lindstrom (eds.)
1989 The Pacific Theater: Island Representations of World War II. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, no. 8. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [from 1985 Symposium]
White, Geoffrey M., and Lamont Lindstrom (eds.)
1997 Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State. Stanford: Stanford University Press. [from 1993 Symposium]
Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Laura and Jeanette Dickerson-Putman (eds.)
2008 Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale. Urbana: University of Illinois [from 2003 Special Session]
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special issues of journals
Addo, Ping-Ann, Heather Young Leslie, and Phyllis Herda (eds.)
2007 Hybrid Textiles: Pragmatic Creativity and Authentic Innovations in Pacific Cloth. Special Issue of Pacific Arts Journal 3-5. [from 2003 session]
Armstrong, Jocelyn, and Juliana Flinn (eds.)
2007 Negotiating Grandparenting: Styles and Strategies in a Changing Pacific. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 30(3/4). [from 2004 Symposium]
Barker, John, and Alan Howard (eds.)
2004 Back in the Field Again: Long-Term Fieldwork in Oceanic Anthropology. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 27(3/4). [from 2003 Symposium]
Barker, John, and Dan Jorgensen (eds.)
1996 Regional Histories in the Western Pacific. Special Issue of Oceania66(3). [from 1993 Symposium]
Bell, Joshua A,. and Haidy Geismar (eds.)
2009 Materialising Oceania: New ethnographies of things in Melanesia and Polynesia. Special Issue of The Australian Journal of Anthropology20(1). [from 2007 Working Session]
Brown, Paula, and Anton Ploeg (eds.)
1997 Change and Conflict in Papua New Guinea Land and Resource Rights. Special Issue of Anthropological Forum 7(4). [from 1996 Working Session]
Counts, Dorothy Ayers (ed.)
1990 Domestic Violence in Oceania. Special Issue of Pacific Studies13(3). [from 1989 Symposium]
Dickerson-Putnam, Jeanette (ed.)
1996 Women, Age, and Power: The Politics of Age Difference among Women in Papua New Guinea and Australia. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 19(4). [from 1993 Symposium]
Dickerson-Putman, Jeanette, and Judith Schachter (eds.)
2008 Relative Power: Changing Interpretations of Fosterage and Adoption in Pacific Island Societies. Special Issue of Pacific Studies31(3/4). [from 2007 Symposium]
Dominy, Michele D., and Laruence M. Carucci (guest editors)
2005 Critical Ethnography in the Pacific: Transformations in Pacific Moral Orders. Special Issue of Anthropological Forum 15 (3). [from 2002 Symposium]
Falgout, Suzanne, and Paula Levin (eds.)
1992 Transforming Knowledge: Western Schooling in the Pacific. Theme Issue. Anthropology & Education Quarterly 23 (1). [from 1988 Symposium]
Gagné, Natacha, and Marie Salaün (eds.)
2012 Indigeneity in Oceania Today: A Conceptual Tool, a Battle Cry and an Experience. Special Issue of Social Identities 18 (4). [from 2009 Symposium]
Huntsman, Judith, and Mervyn McLean (eds.)
1976 Incest Prohibitions in Micronesia and Polynesia. Special Issue ofThe Journal of the Polynesian Society 85(2). [from 1971 Symposium organized by Vern Carroll]
Lohmann, Roger Ivar (ed.)
2010 Creations: Imagination and Innovation. Special Issue ofAnthropological Forum 20(3). [from 2009 Symposium]
Modell, Judith S. (ed.)
2002 Constructing Moral Communities: Pacific Islander Strategies for Settling in New Places. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 25(1 & 2). [from 1997 Symposium]
Nero, Karen L. (ed.)
1992 The Arts and Politics. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 15(4). [from 1990 Symposium]
Pomponio, Alice, David R. Counts, and Thomas G. Harding (ed.)
1994 Children of Kilibob: Creation, Cosmos, and Culture in Northeast New Guinea. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 17(4). [from 1991 Working Session]
Rensel, Jan, and Alan Howard
2012 Pacific Islands Diaspora, Identity and Incorporation. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 35 (1 & 2). [From 2010 Symposium]
Robbins, Joel, Pamela J. Stewart, and Andrew Strathern (eds.)
2001 Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in Oceania. Special Issue of the Journal of Ritual Studies 15 (2). [from 1999 Symposium]
Stevens, Charles J., and Mike Evans (eds.)
1999 Sustainability in the Small Island States of the Pacific. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 22 (3/4). [From 1998 Symposium]
Stewart, Pamela J., and Andrew Strathern (eds.)
2001 Anthropology and Consultancy. Special Issue of Social Analysis45(2). [From 2000 Working Session]
Sullivan, Gerald, and Sharon W. Tiffany (eds.)
2009 The Gang of Four: Gregory Bateson, Ruth Benedict, Reo Fortune, and Margaret Mead in Multiple Contexts. Special Issue of Pacific Studies32 (2/3). [From 2005 Symposium]
Tengan, Ty P Kāwika, Tēvita O. Ka‘ili and Rochelle Tuitagava‘a Fonoti (eds.)
2010 Genealogies: Articulating Indigenous Anthropology in/of Oceania. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 33 (2/3). [From 2008 Symposium]
Trnka, Susanna (ed.)
2003 Ethnographies of the May 2000 Fiji Coup. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 25(4). [from 2001 session]
van Meijl, Toon (ed.)
2009 Pacific discourses about cultural heritage and its protection. Special Issue of International Journal of Cultural Property 16(3). [from 2007 Symposium]
Wagner, John, and Mike Evans (eds.)
2007 Customs, Commons, Property, and Ecology: Case Studies From
Oceania. Special Issue of Human Organization 66(1). [from 2005 Symposium]
White, Geoffrey M., and Lamont Lindstrom (eds.)
1993 Custom Today. Special Issue of Anthropological Forum 6(4). [from 1991 Symposium]
Zelenietz, Marty, and Shirley Lindenbaum (eds.)
1981 Sorcery and Social Change in Melanesia. Special Issue of Social Analysis, no. 8. [from 1979 and 1980 Working Sessions]
Zimmer [Tamakoshi], Laura J. (ed.)
1987 Gambling with Cards in Melanesia and Australia. Special Issue ofOceania 58(1). [from 1986 Working Session]
2007 Hybrid Textiles: Pragmatic Creativity and Authentic Innovations in Pacific Cloth. Special Issue of Pacific Arts Journal 3-5. [from 2003 session]
Armstrong, Jocelyn, and Juliana Flinn (eds.)
2007 Negotiating Grandparenting: Styles and Strategies in a Changing Pacific. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 30(3/4). [from 2004 Symposium]
Barker, John, and Alan Howard (eds.)
2004 Back in the Field Again: Long-Term Fieldwork in Oceanic Anthropology. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 27(3/4). [from 2003 Symposium]
Barker, John, and Dan Jorgensen (eds.)
1996 Regional Histories in the Western Pacific. Special Issue of Oceania66(3). [from 1993 Symposium]
Bell, Joshua A,. and Haidy Geismar (eds.)
2009 Materialising Oceania: New ethnographies of things in Melanesia and Polynesia. Special Issue of The Australian Journal of Anthropology20(1). [from 2007 Working Session]
Brown, Paula, and Anton Ploeg (eds.)
1997 Change and Conflict in Papua New Guinea Land and Resource Rights. Special Issue of Anthropological Forum 7(4). [from 1996 Working Session]
Counts, Dorothy Ayers (ed.)
1990 Domestic Violence in Oceania. Special Issue of Pacific Studies13(3). [from 1989 Symposium]
Dickerson-Putnam, Jeanette (ed.)
1996 Women, Age, and Power: The Politics of Age Difference among Women in Papua New Guinea and Australia. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 19(4). [from 1993 Symposium]
Dickerson-Putman, Jeanette, and Judith Schachter (eds.)
2008 Relative Power: Changing Interpretations of Fosterage and Adoption in Pacific Island Societies. Special Issue of Pacific Studies31(3/4). [from 2007 Symposium]
Dominy, Michele D., and Laruence M. Carucci (guest editors)
2005 Critical Ethnography in the Pacific: Transformations in Pacific Moral Orders. Special Issue of Anthropological Forum 15 (3). [from 2002 Symposium]
Falgout, Suzanne, and Paula Levin (eds.)
1992 Transforming Knowledge: Western Schooling in the Pacific. Theme Issue. Anthropology & Education Quarterly 23 (1). [from 1988 Symposium]
Gagné, Natacha, and Marie Salaün (eds.)
2012 Indigeneity in Oceania Today: A Conceptual Tool, a Battle Cry and an Experience. Special Issue of Social Identities 18 (4). [from 2009 Symposium]
Huntsman, Judith, and Mervyn McLean (eds.)
1976 Incest Prohibitions in Micronesia and Polynesia. Special Issue ofThe Journal of the Polynesian Society 85(2). [from 1971 Symposium organized by Vern Carroll]
Lohmann, Roger Ivar (ed.)
2010 Creations: Imagination and Innovation. Special Issue ofAnthropological Forum 20(3). [from 2009 Symposium]
Modell, Judith S. (ed.)
2002 Constructing Moral Communities: Pacific Islander Strategies for Settling in New Places. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 25(1 & 2). [from 1997 Symposium]
Nero, Karen L. (ed.)
1992 The Arts and Politics. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 15(4). [from 1990 Symposium]
Pomponio, Alice, David R. Counts, and Thomas G. Harding (ed.)
1994 Children of Kilibob: Creation, Cosmos, and Culture in Northeast New Guinea. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 17(4). [from 1991 Working Session]
Rensel, Jan, and Alan Howard
2012 Pacific Islands Diaspora, Identity and Incorporation. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 35 (1 & 2). [From 2010 Symposium]
Robbins, Joel, Pamela J. Stewart, and Andrew Strathern (eds.)
2001 Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in Oceania. Special Issue of the Journal of Ritual Studies 15 (2). [from 1999 Symposium]
Stevens, Charles J., and Mike Evans (eds.)
1999 Sustainability in the Small Island States of the Pacific. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 22 (3/4). [From 1998 Symposium]
Stewart, Pamela J., and Andrew Strathern (eds.)
2001 Anthropology and Consultancy. Special Issue of Social Analysis45(2). [From 2000 Working Session]
Sullivan, Gerald, and Sharon W. Tiffany (eds.)
2009 The Gang of Four: Gregory Bateson, Ruth Benedict, Reo Fortune, and Margaret Mead in Multiple Contexts. Special Issue of Pacific Studies32 (2/3). [From 2005 Symposium]
Tengan, Ty P Kāwika, Tēvita O. Ka‘ili and Rochelle Tuitagava‘a Fonoti (eds.)
2010 Genealogies: Articulating Indigenous Anthropology in/of Oceania. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 33 (2/3). [From 2008 Symposium]
Trnka, Susanna (ed.)
2003 Ethnographies of the May 2000 Fiji Coup. Special Issue of Pacific Studies 25(4). [from 2001 session]
van Meijl, Toon (ed.)
2009 Pacific discourses about cultural heritage and its protection. Special Issue of International Journal of Cultural Property 16(3). [from 2007 Symposium]
Wagner, John, and Mike Evans (eds.)
2007 Customs, Commons, Property, and Ecology: Case Studies From
Oceania. Special Issue of Human Organization 66(1). [from 2005 Symposium]
White, Geoffrey M., and Lamont Lindstrom (eds.)
1993 Custom Today. Special Issue of Anthropological Forum 6(4). [from 1991 Symposium]
Zelenietz, Marty, and Shirley Lindenbaum (eds.)
1981 Sorcery and Social Change in Melanesia. Special Issue of Social Analysis, no. 8. [from 1979 and 1980 Working Sessions]
Zimmer [Tamakoshi], Laura J. (ed.)
1987 Gambling with Cards in Melanesia and Australia. Special Issue ofOceania 58(1). [from 1986 Working Session]