Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2015

The Emergent Middle Classes in Timor-Leste and Melanesia: Conceptual Issues and Developmental Significance

The emergence of a middle class has been identified as an important factor driving economic and political transitions in Asia and Africa. Class has been ‘happening’ in the broader Pacific region1 for some time, as Gewertz and Errington (1999:2) observed of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Nevertheless, to date, little systematic policy attention has been given to questions of class. We believe that the ...

Indigenous Governance in Melanesia

Along with recent widely publicized problems of Melanesian states comes renewed interest in “customary modes of governance.” Although talk of custom now fl ows easily in discussions of political reform in the region, few of these discussions make any serious use of the extensive anthropological literature on the politics of “tradition.” The fact that custom now crosses lines of academic and pol...

AIDS in Melanesia

review of radiographic methods in dental implantology

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List of Reviewers of IJRR issues 2015 - ACKNOWLEGMENT

Many scientists and colleagues from abroad and inside Iran (listed below) voluntarily helped us very much in review and evaluation process of manuscripts being accepted for publication in 2015 issues of IJRR (volume 13, numbers 1-4) and those not suitable for publication. Indeed their careful and critically reading the manuscripts and their valuable comments and suggestions greatly improved the...