PACIFIC STUDIES a journal devoted to the study of the Pacific its islands and adjacent countries DECEMBER 1991 Anthropology Archaeology Art History Ethnomusicology Folklore Geography History Sociolinguistics Political Science Sociology Publishedby THE INSTITUTE FOR POLYNESIAN STUDIES (Brigham YoungUniversity-Hawaii) Fundedbythe Polynesian Cultural Center EDITORIAL BOARD FergusClunie FijiMuseum PaulAlan Cox Brigham Young University Roger Green UniversityofAuckland ReneeHeyum UniversityofHawaii FrancisX. Hezel, SJ. Micronesian Seminar RubelliteJohnson UniversityofHawaii Adrienne Kaeppler Smithsonian Institution Robert Kiste UniversityofHawaii RobertLangdon AustralianNational University IoaneLeMamea PacificIslanders' EducationalResearch Center, N.Z. Stephen Levine Victoria University Katharine Luomala UniversityofHawaii BarrieMacdonald Massey University ClunyMacpherson UniversityofAuckland Leonard Mason UniversityofHawaii MalamaMeleisea Canterbury University Norman Meller UniversityofHawaii RichardM. Moyle UniversityofAuckland ColinNewbury Oxford University Douglas Oliver UniversityofHawaii Margaret Orbell Canterbury University NancyPollock Victoria University Karl Rensch AustralianNational University BraddShore Emory University Yosihiko Sinoto BishopMuseum William Tagupa Honolulu, Hawaii Francisco OrregoVicuna Universidadde Chile TuaopepeFelixWendt Western Samoa Legislative Assembly EdwardWolfers UniversityofWollongong Articles and reviews in Pacific Studies are abstracted or indexed in Sociologi- cal Abstracts, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, America: His- tory and Life, Historical Abstracts, Abstracts in Anthropology, Anthropologi- cal Literature, PAIS Bulletin, International Political Science Abstracts, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, International Bibliogra- phy ofBook Reviews, and International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. PACIFIC STUDIES Editor DALE ROBERTSON B. Associate Editor BookReview Editor GLORIA CRONIN MAX STANTON L. E. Book Review Forum Editor BooksNotedEditor ROBERT BOROFSKY RILEY M. MOFFAT Technical Editor SHARLENE ROHTER Editorial Policy Pacific Studies is published quarterly by The Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, Laie, Hawaii 96762, but responsibility foropinionsexpressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$30.00. Accounts payable to The Institute for Polynesian Studiesshould besent to the editor. Articles submitted to the editorshould betheoriginal typewrittencopy, doublespaced (including quotations, references, and notes). Authors maywriteto theeditorfor a style sheet and information on computer-disk submissions. Books for reviewshould also besent totheeditor. The Institute for Polynesian Studies is an organization funded by Brigham Young University-Hawaii, The Islands Foundation, and the Polynesian Cultural Center. The Institute assists the University in meet- ing its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and publication. The Institute cooperates with other scholarly and research institutions in achievingtheir objectives. It publishes monographs, produces films, underwrites research, andspon- sors conferences on the Pacific islands. Further information on the activities ofthe Institutemaybeobtainedbywritingto theeditor at the above address. ©1991 Brigham Young University-Hawaii. All Rights Reserved. PrintedintheUnited States ofAmerica. ISSN0275-3596 Volume 14 December 1991 Number4 CONTENTS Articles Making Law iti Papua New Guinea: TheInfluenceofCustomaryLaw on the Common Law Jean G. Zorn 1 EconomicDevelopment Optionsfor theFederatedStatesof Micronesia at Independence John Cameron 35 Magic Gardens in Tanna JoelBonnemaison 71 "No Tobacco, No Hallelujah": MissionsandtheEarly Historyof Tobacco in Eastern Papua TerenceE. Hays 91 Editor'sForum Continuity and Changein EconomicRelationsalongtheAitape CoastofPapuaNew Guinea, 1909-1990 RobertL. Welsch andJohn Terrell 113 BookReview Forum Douglas L. Oliver, ThePacificIslands, thirdedition ColinNewbury 129 K. R. Howe 132 CarolineRalston 137 Jean FrancoisBare 142 Response: Thomas G. Harding 149 Response: Douglas L. Oliver 157 Reviews Marta Langridge, trans., andJenniferTerrell, ed., Vonden Steinen'sMarquesanMyths (KatharineLuomala) 159 Rita Knipe, The WaterofLife:AJungianJourney through HawaiianMyth (Renatevon Gizycki) 173 AllanThomas, IneleoTuia, andJudithHuntsman, eds., Songsand StoriesofTokelau: AnIntroduction to the CulturalHeritage (Richard Moyle) 176 JeromeFeldman andDonaldH. Rubinstein, eds., TheArtof Micronesia (Richard Parmentier) 178 J. DianeLangmore, Missionary Lives: Papua, 1874-1914 (DavidWetherell) 182 Ian C. Campbell, A HistoryofthePacificIslands (Glen St. Barclay) 188 J. Paul Spoonley, ThePoliticsofNostalgia: RacismandtheExtreme RightinNew Zealand (Stephen Levine) 190 BooksNoted RecentPacificIslandsPublications: SelectedAcquisitions, January-March1991 RileyM. Moffat 193 Contributors 200