Preliminaries -- Contents -- Introduction -- Bougainville's Early History: An Archaeological Perspective -- The Geology of Bougainville -- The Languages of Bougainville -- An Introduction to Bougainville Cultures -- Why do the People of Bougainville Look Unique Some Conclusions -- Origins of Bougainville's Boundaries -- German Colonial Rule in the Northern Solomons -- The Pacification of Southern Bougainville 1900 30 -- Imperium in Imperio The Catholic Church in Bougainville -- 1914 Changing the Guard at Kieta -- Between the Waitman's Wars 1914 42 -- Bougainville in World War II -- Sources on Pre mining Bougainville -- Post War Reconstruction in Bougainville Plantations -- Post 1960s Cocoa and Copra Production in Bougainville -- The Panguna Mine -- Torau Response to Change -- Movements Towards Secession 1964 76 -- Shaping Leadership through Bougainville Indigenous Values and -- The Bougainville Catholic Church and Indigenisation -- Buin Social Structure -- We are Born Chiefs Chiefly Identity and Power in Haku Buka Island -- Land for Agriculture Silent Women Mens Voices -- Snapshots from Nasioi 1963 2000 -- Nagovisi Then and Now 1963 2000 -- Vignettes of Mogoroi Village Buin 1971 2004 -- Identities Among Bougainvilleans -- Nagovisi Villages as a Window on Bougainville in 1988 -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Bibliography.

This remarkable book brings together in one volume most aspects — geological, environmental, archaeological, ethnic, linguistic, ethnographic and historical - of one of the most beautiful island groups of the Pacific, Bougainville.

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