These collected essays critically examine the consequences of contact between colonial and missionary projects and indigenous communities in contemporary Pacific societies. They address the multiple ways that processes of historical change have shaped and been shaped by linguistic ideologies reflexive sensibilities about languages and language useheld by Pacific peoples themselves and other agents of change.

Miki Makihara is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Queens College, CUNY
Bambi B. Schieffelin is Professor of Anthropology, New York University