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"The RSPAS Print News" electronic journal (ISSN 1440-9127) was established 1 June 1998 to provide online summaries and announcements of the latest print and/or electronic research publications, including recently completed PhD theses, by members of and visitors to the Research School of Pacific Studies and Asian Studies, National Institute for Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra. All information published in this journal (bibliographical details, keywords, URLs) has been provided by authors of the announced publications. In case of the URLs their structural validity is always ascertained by "The RSPAS Print News". However, the Editor of this journal assumes, but not verifies, that the supplied hypertext links do indeed lead to the right document on the Web.

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RSPAS Print News Announcements: Aug 2002
Vol. 5, No. 8(40)

• 30 Aug 2002
  Bourke, Myra Jean, Susanne Holzknecht and Annie Bartlett (eds) (2002)
  "Weaving a Double Cloth. Stories of Asia-Pacific Women in Australia", xiv+198pp.
  Keywords: minority women, Australia, social conditions; women immigrants, Australia.
  Publisher:
  Canberra: Pandanus Books, RSPAS
  ISBN 1 74076 018 2
  RRP: AU$29.95 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 30 Aug 2002
  Rae, Heather (2002)
  "Normative progress and pathological practices: The modern state and identity politics", 42pp. Department of International Relations Working Paper 2002/3.
  Keywords: social norms, political sociology, the state
  Publisher:
  Canberra: Department of International Relations, RSPAS, ANU
  ISBN 0 7315 3118 3
  RRP: AU$10.00 (GST included) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  URL http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ir/working%20papers/02-3.pdf

• 27 Aug 2002
  Tapp, Nicholas (2002) 'Hmong Confucian ethics and constructions of the past'
  in, Shigeharu Tanabe and Charles F Keyes (eds), "Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos", pp.95-110
  Keywords: Hmong, Thailand, social ethics, memory, Confucianism
  Publisher:
  London: RoutledgeCurzon
  ISBN 0 7007 1175 9
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 22 Aug 2002
  Brookfield, H, C Padoch, H Parsons and M Stocking (eds) (2002)
  "Cultivating Biodiversity: Understanding, Analysing and Using Agricultural Diversity", 292p.
  Keywords: biodiversity, agricultural diversity, small farmers, developing countries
  Publisher:
  London: ITDG Press, in association with the United Nations University
  ISBN 1 85339 393 9
  RRP: tba
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: on order
  URL http://www.itdgpublishing.org.uk

• 22 Aug 2002
  Penders, C L M (2002)
  "The West New Guinea. Dutch Decolonisation and Indonesia 1945-1962", 490p.
  Keywords: the West New Guinea debacle
  Publisher:
  Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing
  ISBN 1 86333 2057
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 21 Aug 2002
  Anderson, Atholl, Helen Martinsson-Wallin and Paul Wallin (2002) "The prehistory of Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, Republic of Kiribati: Excavations and Analyses", 144pp. Kon-Tiki Museum Occasional Papers 6.
  Keywords: prehistory, Christmas Island, archaeology, excavation, analysis
  Publisher:
  Norway: Kon-Tiki Museum
  ISSN 0802 6491
  RRP: tba
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: on order
  

• 21 Aug 2002
  Fankhauser, B (2002) 'Characterisation and sourcing of archaeological basalt from Kiritimati (Christmas) Island'. 23pp.
  Appendix A in, Atholl Anderson, Helen Martinsson-Wallin and Paul Wallin, "The Prehistory of Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, Republic of Kiribati: Excavations and Analyses". Kon-Tiki Museum Occasional Papers 6.
  Keywords: prehistory, Christmas Island, archaeology, basalt sourcing
  Publisher:
  Norway: Kon-Tiki Museum
  ISSN 0802 6491
  RRP: tba
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: on order
  

• 21 Aug 2002
  Hope, Geoffrey (2002) 'The late Quaternary of Kiritimati Island'. 8pp.
  Appendix B in, "The Prehistory of Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, Republic of Kiribati: Excavations and Analyses". Kon-Tiki Museum Occasional Papers 6.
  Keywords: prehistory, Christmas Island, archaeology, environmental history, Quaternary
  Publisher:
  Norway: Kon-Tiki Museum
  ISSN 0802 6491
  RRP: tba
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: on order
  

• 21 Aug 2002
  Schmidt, Lyn (2002) 'The shellfish collection from Kiritimati Island'. 6pp.
  Appendix C in, "The Prehistory of Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, Republic of Kiribati: Excavations and Analyses. Kon-Tiki Museum Occasional Papers 6.
  Keywords: prehistory, Christmas Island, archaeology, archaeozoology
  Publisher:
  Norway: Kon-Tiki Museum
  ISSN 0802 6491
  RRP: tba
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: on order
  

• 19 Aug 2002
  Ciolek, T Matthew (2002) 'Electronic environments of Eastern Asia: a background survey'
  in, "Asian Studies Review" 26(2):233-260
  Keywords: Internet in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand; telephones; web links; online users.
  Publisher:
  Asian Studies Association of Australia
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  URL http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/e-environments2002.html

• 15 Aug 2002
  Kennedy, Jean (2002) 'Manus from the beginning: an archaeological overview'
  in, Christian Kaufmann, Christin Kocher Schmid and Sylvia Ohnemus (eds), "Admiralty Islands: art from the South Seas", 12pp.
  Keywords: prehistory, archaeology, Manus Province, PNG
  Publisher:
  Zurich: Museum Rietberg
  ISBN 3 907077 02 4
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 15 Aug 2002
  Ambrose, Wal (2002) 'From very old to new: obsidian artefacts in the Admiralty Islands'
  in, Christian Kaufmann, Christin Kocher Schmid and Sylvia Ohnemus (eds), "Admiralty Islands: art from the South Seas", 6pp.
  Keywords: prehistory, archaeology, Manus Province, PNG
  Publisher:
  Zurich: Museum Rietberg
  ISBN 3 907077 02 4
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

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