ABSTRACT
The Pacific Islands are home to some 9,500,000 people living on more than 10,000 individual islands. This makes broad claims to knowledge about the region epistemologically tenuous. Many of the things that are known about places or phenomena are often uncertain, and are a questionable basis for making generalized statements about the region. Moreover, what is formally ‘known’ is often highly fragmented and resides within, and rarely beyond, the boundaries of particular knowledge systems (such as academic disciplines).
