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ASAO Monograph #7: The Pacification of Melanesia

Edited by Margaret Rodman and Matthew Cooper

University of Michigan PresS (1979)


​University Press of America (1983)

1. Introduction
Margaret Rodman

2. On the Beginnings of Colonialism in Melanesia
Matthew Cooper

3. Killing the Government: Imperial Policy and the Pacification of Malaita
James Boutilier

A Comment on "Killing the Government ... "
Raymond Firth

4. The End of Headhunting in New Georgia
Martin Zelenietz

5. War, Peace, and Piety in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands
Geoffrey White

6. Following Peace: Indigenous Pacification of a Northern New Hebridean Society
Margaret Rodman

7. The Establishment of the Pax Neerlandica in the Bokondini Area
Anton Ploeg

8. Manga Pacification
Susan Pflanz-Cook and Edwin Cook

​9. Epilogue. Pacification: Perspectives from Conflict Theory
Klaus-Friedrich Koch