That’s the Journal of the Polynesian Society, if you were wondering.
It’s been a sad wrench for me at UCL, browsing the e-journals list of our library and always feeling a little empty spot in my heart right here:
The Society is only up to the 1930s, but seeing as the really good ethnographic stuff is mostly pre-1950, it’s a goldmine already.
JPS is one of my favourite journals. It’s regional, obviously, but its coverage within the Oceania remit is a real four-field anthropology, with history, sociology, economics, and geography as well. When I was an undergraduate nerd and used to actually go to the library and read journals I would invariably find at least one or two articles in JPS worth a read. They always seemed chatty and fascinating, especially the dusty ones.
Excellent. Expect Nature Network Polynesia to launch imminently.
You laugh, but think of the regional conference opportunities!
In an online network I’m a member of JPS means Joint Profile Shame, where two people with profiles on the site are pictured in the one photograph.
I was expecting some salaciousness from this post. Tsk!
The ambiguity of JPS amused me for precisely that reason! :D