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Pacific Science: Index to Online Archives

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Pacific Science, the UH Press’s original journal and only journal in the natural sciences, now has a new Index to Online Archives, which contains an increasingly comprehensive listing of published tables of contents (ToCs) from each volume, with links from each article title to its online edition. From vol. 47 (1993), the ToCs also contain abstracts. All volumes from 1 (1947) through 54 (2000) will be available by open access in UH Hamilton Library’s ScholarSpace digital repository. So far, the repository contains complete volumes going back as far as the early 1970s, but we plan to have all the volumes from the 1960s, 1950s, and 1940s available online by June 2009.

A short history of the journal’s migration from print to electronic availability follows.

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Asian Perspectives, vol. 47, no. 2 (2008)

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Editors’ corner, 189

We are instituting a new system for contacting the journal editors to improve our communication with authors. General inquiries about the journal, initial requests for information about article submissions, and electronic submissions should be sent to [email protected] and addressed to Laura Junker. Once articles are submitted, the assigned journal editor will notify you with their specific contact information for author queries. Mailed submissions should continue to be sent to: Asian Perspectives Editor Laura Junker, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, M/C 027, 2102 BSB, 1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, Illinois 60607-7139 U.S.A. Authors with large graphics files should send their submissions by mail or in several e-mails (5 MB maximum per e-mail) to avoid problems of file retrieval and electronic bounce-backs. We would like to emphasize that we encourage submissions from a broad range of theoretical perspectives. We also want to especially invite indigenous Asian archaeologists to submit manuscripts and, while we encourage all authors to use whatever resources available to produce clearly written English language papers, we are also happy to work with authors on English language issues to improve the peer review process. Please let us know if you would like to be added to our list of peer reviewers.

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Language Documentation & Conservation, vol. 2, no. 2 (2008)

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ARTICLES

Locus Equation Analysis as a Tool for Linguistic Fieldwork
Caleb Everett

Locus equations are linear regressions based on F2 formant transitions from vowel onsets to vowel midpoints. The F2 value of the onset of a given vowel can be plotted on the y-axis, with the F2 for the vowel’s midpoint plotted on the x-axis. Locus equations are derived from numerous F2 onset-F2 midpoint plots of this type. Each locus equation is associated with a particular consonant, which precedes the particular vowel tokens plotted according to F2 transition. Locus equations provide data on the patterns of CV coarticulation characterizing particular consonants. Studies in laboratory settings have demonstrated the efficacy of locus equation analysis for exploring such coarticulation patterns. However, locus equation analysis has generally not been exploited as a tool for linguistic fieldwork. This study presents an exception, as the author presents various locus equations based on data from Karitiâna, an endangered Amazonian language. These equations, based on acoustic data gathered in the field, reveal language-specific patterns of coarticulation. The results suggest that, even in remote non-laboratory settings, locus equations can be applied in a straightforward manner in order to provide useful insights into a language’s sound system.

Capturing Chaos: Rendering Handwritten Language Documents
John Henderson

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CRI to Go Quarterly, All-digital in 2009

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After many years of running far behind schedule, China Review International (CRI) will make radical changes in the manner and frequency in which it delivers reviews. The founding goals of CRI were to review a wide range of international scholarly literature in Chinese studies, and to do so in a timely manner.

In an effort to improve timeliness, CRI will publish smaller batches of reviews at quarterly intervals and deliver them digitally to all but a few subscribers who will have to pay an extra premium for the print edition. Subscribers who have already renewed will not be charged the extra fees until their next renewal cycle.

Starting from volume 15 (for 2008, currently in production a year behind schedule), CRI will appear in three editions.

  • Online edition – All current institutional subscribers are urged to switch to the digital edition of CRI hosted by Project MUSE. Contact Project MUSE for 2009 pricing.
  • Email edition – Subscribers who provide their email addresses to UHP Journals will receive each issue in PDF format. This will include review contributors and others who receive complimentary copies. Pricing for email delivery during 2009 will remain $50 for institutions and $30 for individuals.
  • Print edition – Subscribers who absolutely require delivery in print will be served by very shortrun digital printing. Pricing for the print edition will rise to $80 for 2009. Contact UHP Journals to request this option.

The UH Press wishes to express its gratitude to CRI reviewers and subscribers for their continuing patience and support. We hope these change will serve the CRI community better in the years to come.

Manoa, vol. 20, no. 2 (2008): Enduring War

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Enduring War coverPresented by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing

Enduring War: Stories of What We’ve Learned

Edited by Frank Stewart

The stories, essays, and poems in this volume render the effects of war in our time and the shadows they cast, from the Pacific campaigns of World War II to genocide under the Khmer Rouge to hostilities in the Middle East. Soldiers, however, are not in the foreground in most of these works. More often, the writers depict war as a destructive force on the lives of children, women, and other civilians, and capture the lasting, complex ways in which innocent individuals and communities are harmed.

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China Review International, vol. 14, no. 2 (2007)

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FEATURES

Theodore Huters, Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Reviewed by Lydia H. Liu, 329

Martin Kern, editor, Text and Ritual in Early China
Reviewed by Brian J. Bruya, 338

Stephen Owen, The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry
Reviewed by David McCraw, 355

Atsuko Sakaki, Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature
Reviewed by Wiebke Denecke, 360
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Biography, vol. 31, no. 3 (2008)

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Biography 31.3 coverIN LOVING MEMORY: LINDON BARRETT, v

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

Something Other Than Autobiography: Collaborative Life-Narratives in the Americas—An Introduction,
Kathleen McHugh and Catherine Komisaruk, vii

This Introduction to a special essay cluster on “Collaborative Life-Narratives in the Americas” suggests a field of texts and critical practices, arising from the material circumstances of colonialism in the Americas, that counters traditional autobiographical narrative. The essays explore the complicated relationships among literacy, identity, colonialism, and conquest, as the narration of marginalized lives invokes collaboration with technologies of literacy.

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