Dear Colleagues,

The Centre for Pacific Studies (CPS) at the University of Nijmegen, the
Netherlands, has just published no. 21 of the "Oceania Newsletter". It
includes the following items:
• New Honorary Members
• Annual Report 1997-1998 -- Toon van Meijl
• First International Interdisciplinary Conference 'Perspectives on the
Bird's Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia' -- Jelle Miedema
• Report on Environmental Issues in the Aluni Valley in the Duna Area
of Papua New Guinea -- P. Stewart & A. Strathern
• Review of South-East Asia Panel no 89a -- Jaap Timmer
• Mission and Music: Jabêm Traditional Music and the Development of
Lutheran Hymnology -- Reviewed by Lars Kjærholm
• In Memoriam Father
Sibbele Hylkema OFM -- Anton Ploeg
• Calendar of Conferences
• The Pacific Islands on World Wide Web: New Sites
• Publications Received
• New Books -- compiled by René van der Haar
• Recent Publications on Oceania -- compiled by René van der Haar

As all our newsletters, it has been made accessible on-line, and can be
entered from our internet site: <http://www.kun.nl/cps/>.
Please visit and browse around.

Best wishes,

Rene van der Haar       &       Toon van Meijl
(Documentationalist)              (Academic Manager)


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