MAUREEN MOLLOY. “Lords of an Empty Creation”: Manus, America, and the Depression 233
PETER DWYER and MONICA MINNEGAL. El Niño, Y2K and the “Short, Fat Lady”: Drought and Agency in a Lowland Papua New Guinea Community 251
ATHOLL ANDERSON, PAUL WALLIN, HELENE MARTINSSON-WALLIN, BARRY FANKHAUSER and GEOFFREY HOPE. Towards a First Prehistory of Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, Republic of Kiribati 273
Shorter Communications
PER HAGE. The Conical Clan in Micronesia: The Marshall Islands 295
ATHOLL ANDERSON, GEOFFREY CLARK and TREVOR WORTHY. An Inland Lapita Site in Fiji 311
Reviews 317
Publications Received 331
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 333
No. 4 - DECEMBER 2000 Edited by Judith Huntsman
Obituary: Bruce Grandison Biggs FRSNZ, CBE, OBE, President of the Polynesian Society 1979-1993 by Andrew Pawley 341
Notes and News 347
Articles
MERATA KAWHARU. Kaitiakitanga: A Maori Anthropological Perspective of the Maori Socio-Environmental Ethic of Resource Management 349
CELIA EHRLICH. “Inedible” to “Edible”: Firewalking and the Ti Plant (Cordyline fruticosa) 371
ANTON PLOEG. Dr P.J. Eyma's Writings on Agriculture in the Panai Area, Central Highlands, Western New Guinea 401