Forum: Culture and History in the Pacific

Authors

• Tuomas Tammisto University of Helsinki https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9767-7832
• Matti Eräsaari University of Helsinki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7851-2685

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v46i2.116019

Abstract

The year 2021 saw the open-access republication of Culture and History in the Pacific (ed. Jukka Siikala), an edited volume originally published by the Finnish Anthropological Society. Suomen antropologi: The Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society marks the occasion with this special book forum. For a number of years, Culture and History in the Pacific was known as a book that was particularly hard to find. Now, 30 years after the original publication, the book is freely accessible with a new contextualizing introduction by Petra Autio (University of Helsinki). But what, if anything, is achieved by republishing this book now?