The Mandates System in Relation to Africa and the Pacific Islands. By Elizabeth van Maanen-Helmer. (London: P. S. King and Son. 1929. Pp. 331.) - British Colonial Policy and the South African Republics, 1848–1872. By C. W. de Kiewiet. (London: Longmans Green and Co.1929. Pp. xiii, 317.) - The British in Tropical Africa: An Historical Outline. By Ifor L. Evans. (Cambridge University Press. 1929. Pp. ix, 396.)

1929 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1033-1035
Author(s):  
Rupert Emerson
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
Historical Outline ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
British Colonial

British Colonial Policy and the South African Republics, 1848-1872

1929 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 565 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. C. ◽  
C. W. de Kiewiet
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
British Colonial

Kava : A Challenge to Alcohol?

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
J.E. Cawte
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
The South ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
North East ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Arnhem Land

Kava has been introduced into Aboriginal communities in Northern Australia. Persons from Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land visiting the South Pacific region on study tours have been impressed by their welcome in Kava bowl ceremonies, and some of them hoped that the Aborigines might use Kava instead of alcohol.In 1983 many Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land used Kava, and much more was used in 1984. By 1985 it became a social epidemic or ‘craze’ in many communities. Rings of people of both sexes and of all ages often sit together under trees around Kava bowls for many hours. They may drink up to a hundred times the amount normally drunk in the Pacific Islands by the same number of people in the same time.

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