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Contemporary Pacific

Volume 79, Number 1 (2025)

About the Artist: Bridget Reweti
Nina Tonga and Bridget Reweti

Seeking Peace in Religious Teachings: Women’s Responses to Domestic Violence in Rural Vanuatu
Donna Jella Tagaro and Naohiro Nakamura

Pacific Studies: Engaging Law, Anthropology, Archives, and the Arts
Katerina Teaiwa, Terence Wesley-Smith, and Talei Luscia Mangioni

Pacific Studies and Anthropology: Articulations and Disarticulations
April K Henderson

Unsettling Legal Imperialism and Cultivating Homegrown Law: Why Law Schools Need Pacific Studies
Rebecca Monson, Dylan Asafo, Joseph D Foukona, and Bridget Fa‘amatuainu

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Mānoa

Volume 37, Number 2 (2026)

Touchable/Untouchable Dalit Literature from India in Translation

Guest Editors K. Satyanarayana and S. Shankar discuss their inspiration for these translations stating:

This issue of Mānoa presents Dalit literature from India in translation to a global audience of readers in English.

Why should readers outside India care about Dalit literature? For one thing, contemporary Dalit literature is among the most interesting and vibrant of literary enterprises currently underway in India. Contemporary Dalit literature has at one and the same time borne gripping witness to the centuries-old atrocious institution of exclusion and oppression known as caste, at the bottom of which Dalits are located as the most excluded and the most oppressed, and broken invigorating new literary ground. For these reasons alone, the value of reading Dalit literature should be evident. Dalit literature deserves a global audience, which it has begun to receive in recent years. This issue adds to Dalit literature’s global reach in significant ways.

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Oceanic Linguistics

Volume 65, Number 1 (2026)

Suprasegmental Adaptation of Japanese Loanwords in Isbukun Bunun
Hui-shan Lin

Observations on Malagasy Presentatives
Ileana Paul, Vanilla Diane Dimisy, Baholisoa Simone Ralalaoherivony, Jeannot Fils Ranaivoson, Lisa Travis

Contact or Inheritance? New Evidence on the Proto-Philippines Hypothesis
Victoria Chen, Maria Kristina Gallego, Jonathan Kuo, Isaac Stead, and Benjamin van der Voorn

The Languages of Atauro Island
Christoph Bracks and Owen Edwards

Gender Vocalism in the South Bird’s Head Languages in Comparative Perspective
Lourens de Vries

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Pacific Science

Volume 79, Number 4 (2025)

This issue is the last by Editor in Chief David Duffy and he passes the torch to Stephen L. Young. Duffy reflects on his editorial ship stating:

Pacific Science will be publishing its 80th volume next year, so it has survived much and is likely to persist. A new editor will bring fresh ideas and stamina. We are lucky to have Steve Young taking over the next volume. He received his degree from the University of California, Davis, working on plant and soil interactions related to the restoration of arid grasslands in the Western US. He has spent time at the University of Nebraska, Cornell, Utah State University, and most recently the USDA before taking a position at Oregon State about an hour north of me. I expect we will have future opportunities to get together to exchange war stories about editing this journal. I will leave it to him in the next issue to share his hopes and aspirations for Pacific Science.

“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”—Garrison Keillor

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