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daily nebraskan
monday, february 5, 1979
Tasmanian lecturer studies cold war in warm Pacific
By Barb Richardson
A former UNL student turned teacher visited Lincoln
last week while on a study break from the University of
Tasmania.
Why would anyone leave the warm South Pacific to
come to the land of snow and ice?
Senior tutor of political science, Richard Herr, said
there are several reasons for the trip including wanting
to meet with his American colleagues.
Herr said that he does not want to be called professor
because there is only one professor in Tasmania that
everyone admires and Herr is not him.
Herr said he also stopped in Tonga, a South Pacific
nation, to work on a foreign policy study of Tonga the
first month of his study break.
"I'm also in the process of revising my doctorate thesis
for a book," Herr said. "A publisher has been waiting for
a year for the revision."
Two articles
Herr added he has two articles to finish while on his
bulk. One is on the United States' educational system for
the Pacific Islands Monthly and the other is on regional
ism in the South Pacific.
Herr received a bachelor's degree at UNL in political
science and economics. After graduating from UNL, Herr
went to Duke University to complete his doctorate on the
South Pacific.
Herr and his native Nebraskan wife have lived in
Tasmania for seven and a half years.
Herr is involved now in the study of South Pacific
politics.
"1 served as a consultant to review the future of the
South Pacific Commission in 1976-77," Herr said.
"Essentially, the SPC is an association which is designed
to promote technical cooperation between the South
Pacific states."
Herr added that although SPC is non -political, it in
cludes both the independent and dependent states.
Herr and his fellow researchers were asked to find out
if the SPC was necessary. Herr's project resulted from a
conflict between the SPC and the South Pacific Forum, a
political group composed of the independent states of the
South Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand.
"The Forum has tried to displace the SPC," Herr said.
He added, that Forum members felt there would soon be
no need for SPC because of the Forum's power.
Herr also is presently involved in a study of the foreign
policy of Tonga. Herr said because the new King of Tonga
is very dynamic and feels as though he is a part of world
politics, the study should be interesting.
Political issues
The intervention of the super powers, the United
States, China and the Soviet Union, the decolonization of
dependent islands, and the establishment of sea boundar
ies are the South Pacific's most important political issues,
according to Herr.
Explaining the super powers' intervention to an Inter
national Relations class Tuesday, Herr said that until
1975 there were no communist representatives in the
South Pacific.
In April 1976, Soviet Union representatives visited
Tonga. They were invited to Tonga because in 1972 the
Labor government in Australia and New Zealand separat
ed from the South Pacific states to place emphasis on
their own nations' problems.
The South Pacific islanders, after the separation, felt
they no longer had someone to defend them.
Since 1972. Russia and the United States have been
intervening in the South Pacific, Herr said. The super
powers would like to establish military strings with the
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Herr said the United States, which has fish canneries
in the South Pacific also is concerned with the sea law.
"In 1977 the South Pacific states established a 200
mile zone among themselves which means that they
control about 10 million square miles of ocean," Herr said.
Herr told the class that since 1962 the South Pacific
islands have been gaining independence and that de
colonization of the South Pacific has not been violent.
Herr returned to Tasmania Thursday.
Garbage studied as
clue to ancient man
Studying today's garbage can help people understand
modern and ancient man, according to anthropology pro
fessor Peter Bleed and proponents of ethnoarcheology.
Bleed said the UNL anthropology department and the
Division of Archeological Research are sponsoring four
ethnoarcheological speakers this semester with a Mont
gomery Lecture Series grant of $3,000.
Each year various departments apply for the series,
Bleed said, in order to bring in top people in different
areas of education.
"Ethnoarcheology is essentially the study of how living
people make, use and destroy things," he said.
Anthropologists in the past would collect and describe
artifacts, lie said, while modern scientists ignored the ma
terial aspects of a society and looked for cultural
and intellectual patterns.
Recent development
Ethnoarcheology. a development of the last five years,
teaches them how to relate both areas for fuller
knowledge, he said.
The first speaker, scheduled for Feb. 22, is Prof.
Wendell Oswalt of UCLA. He coined the word "ethno
archeology" and has been doing research for 20 years in
the American Arctic.
"He is concerned directly with how anthropologists use
stuff (artifacts) and what we do with stuff in museums,"
Bleed said.
On March 1 , Prof. William Rathje will come to UNL
from the University of Arizona to tell students about his
"Le Project du Garbage," in which he studied the trash
of Tucson and Milwaukee residents.
According to Bleed, people threw away more than they
admitted purchasing.
Dr. John Yellen, African prehistory specialist who has
been studying the Kalahari Bushmen for the past two
years, will speak on April 9. Yellen is the current director
of the National Science Foundation, Anthropology
Program.
Primitive hunters
Bleed said that since prehistoric man was a hunter
for many years, the Kalahari people are a living group
"comparable to prehistoric man" in their garbage habits.
The final speaker is scheduled for April 18. He is Prof.
Lewis Binford of the University of New Mexico.
He has been "one of the foremost forces in anthropol
ogy in the last 1 5 years," according to Bleed.
Binford did extensive research while living among the
Nunamuit Eskimos of Alaska, who use primitive hunt
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patterns as well as specific garbage they create.
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