{"title":"A Source of Power, Disquiet and Biblical Purport: The Jordan River in Santo, Vanuatu","authors":"Carlos Mondragón","doi":"10.22459/ir.06.2018.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ir.06.2018.03","url":null,"abstract":"The Jordan River, on the island of Espíritu Santo, is the largest river in the Vanuatu archipelago.1 It was originally given that name 400 years ago by a foreigner, Iberian navigator Pedro Fernández de Quirós, the first of many outlanders who have since engaged with the people and environments that coexist with this body of flowing water. Of course, contemporary Santo Islanders have their own names for this river, as well as for the specific tributaries that give form to its drainage basin. The rugged geography over which this basin extends is located within a broader, geographically complex region of North Santo. This territory, to whose description I return below, is host to a rich diversity of ni-Vanuatu communities, language groups and storied places.2 Importantly, this is","PeriodicalId":232160,"journal":{"name":"Island Rivers: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125035205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Riverine Disposal of Mining Wastes in Porgera: Capitalist Resource Development and Metabolic Rifts in Papua New Guinea","authors":"J. Jacka","doi":"10.22459/IR.06.2018.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/IR.06.2018.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":232160,"journal":{"name":"Island Rivers: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130973025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rivers of Memory and Forgetting","authors":"J. Wagner","doi":"10.22459/ir.06.2018.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ir.06.2018.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":232160,"journal":{"name":"Island Rivers: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania","volume":"30 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132733853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘At Every Bend a Chief, At Every Bend a Chief, Waikato of One Hundred Chiefs’: Mapping the Socio-Political Life of the Waikato River","authors":"Marama Muru-Lanning","doi":"10.22459/IR.06.2018.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/IR.06.2018.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":232160,"journal":{"name":"Island Rivers: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134457375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unflowing Pasts, Lost Springs and Watery Mysteries in Eastern Polynesia","authors":"Alexander Mawyer","doi":"10.22459/ir.06.2018.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ir.06.2018.04","url":null,"abstract":"With attention to both local and extra-local processes of construal of the cultural place and significance of water on the landscape in French Polynesia’s Gambier Islands, I query the sometimes uncertain character and cloudy nature of water in this part of the Pacific. The molecular constancy of the substance notwithstanding, it seems that water is not always what it was or even where it was in recent pasts. For instance, in Eastern Polynesia the seemingly straightforward and highly culturally salient contrast in the binary opposition between tai and vai, salt and fresh waters, may displace the need to address the current complexity of the situation in which fresh waters on Pacific islands now stand.1 Famously binary cultural logics can mask significant cultural ambiguities and practical uncertainties (Feinberg 1980; Mawyer 2014). Similarly, an enduring and valuable focus on the immensely profound place of Ocean for these ‘peoples of the sea’ (Buck 1938b) and of ‘salt’ (Hau‘ofa 1998),","PeriodicalId":232160,"journal":{"name":"Island Rivers: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130356009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sepik River, Papua New Guinea: Nourishing Tradition and Modern Catastrophe","authors":"E. Silverman","doi":"10.22459/IR.06.2018.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/IR.06.2018.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":232160,"journal":{"name":"Island Rivers: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania","volume":"544 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116712069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Wagner, J. Jacka, E. Hviding, Alexander Mawyer, Marama Muru-Lanning
{"title":"Introduction: River as Ethnographic Subject","authors":"J. Wagner, J. Jacka, E. Hviding, Alexander Mawyer, Marama Muru-Lanning","doi":"10.22459/IR.06.2018.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/IR.06.2018.01","url":null,"abstract":"Our intention in this volume is to make an original and innovative contribution to the ethnographic record of Oceania while also contributing to global debates about rivers and fresh water. Given the historical tendency for human societies everywhere to situate themselves near rivers, lakes, streams and other sources of fresh, flowing water, one might expect to find abundant, detailed descriptions of rivers in the early ethnographic record. But this is not the case.","PeriodicalId":232160,"journal":{"name":"Island Rivers: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132756305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The River, the Water and the Crocodile in Marovo Lagoon","authors":"E. Hviding","doi":"10.22459/IR.06.2018.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/IR.06.2018.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":232160,"journal":{"name":"Island Rivers: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130382055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}