Articles

Articles by Francis X. Hezel, SJ, on a wide variety of social issues and on the history of Micronesia.

Economic

Is That the Best You Can Do? A Tale of Two Micronesian Economies	2006	87 KB
Sustainable Human Development in the Federated States of Micronesia	1997	389 KB
with Edwin Q.P. Petteys and Deborah L. Chang
Let's Have the Meal Today Rather Than the Fishing Industry Tomorrow	1987	13 KB
How Much is Enough? US Aid and Free Association	1985	15 KB
A Brief Economic History of Micronesia	1984	102 KB
Yesterday's Myths, Today's Realities	1980	25 KB
The New Formula for Self-Reliance	1979	15 KB
Taking the Long View	1977	19 KB
How to Support Expensive Habits and Still Run the Household	1976	14 KB
Micronesia's Education for Self-Government: Frolicking in the Backyard?	1975	26 KB
Micronesia: Ten Years After	1974	9 KB
Reflections on Micronesia's Economy	1973	27 KB
Self-support of Programs and Institutions of the Catholic Church	1971	19 KB
The Creation of a Colony: The Paradox of Economic Aid to Micronesia	1968	38 KB

Education

Statistics on Education in Micronesia	2000	89 KB
The Price of Education in Micronesia	1989	22 KB
Schools in Micronesia Prior to American Administration	1985	45 KB
In the Aftermath of the Education Expolosion	1985	68 KB
The Education Explosion in Chuuk	1978	63 KB
Ghosts of the Past...A Vision of the Future	1977	16 KB
In Search of a Home: Colonial Education in Micronesia	1975	31 KB
Who Shall Own the Schools?	1974	19 KB
The School Industry	1973	12 KB
A Sad Tale of Long Ago: How Magic Signs were Brought to a Far-off Island	1973	13 KB

Family Change

The Cultural Revolution of the 1960s in Micronesia	2008	36 KB
Changes in the Pohnpeian Family: 1950-1990	1992	45 KB
with Seberiano Barnabas
The Changing Family in Chuuk: 1950-1990	1992	28 KB
with Innocente Oneisom

Historical

Christianity in Micronesia	2008	44 KB
The Man Who Was Reputed to be King: David Dean O'Keefe	2008	103 KB
Health in Micronesia Through the Years	2006	27 KB
Chuuk: Caricature of an Island	2003	45 KB
Foreign Ships in Micronesia	2001	200 KB
German Catholic Missions in Micronesia	2001	37 KB
Beachcombers, Traders & Castaways	2000	200 KB
The Expensive Taste for Modernity: Caroline and Marshall Islands	1992	51 KB
Recolonizing Islands and Decolonizing History	1991	25 KB
New Direction in Pacific History	1988	25 KB
From Conquest to Colonization: Spain in the Marianas 1690-1740	1988	67 KB
Journey of Faith: Blessed Diego of the Marianas	1985	25 KB
From Conversion to Conquest: The Early Spanish Mission in the Marianas	1982	76 KB
The Role of the Beachcombers in the Caroline Islands	1978	38 KB
Indigenization as a Missionary Goal in the Caroline-Marshall Islands	1978	56 KB
A Yankee Trader in Yap: Crayton Philo Holcomb	1975	65 KB
The Beginnings of Foreign Contact in Truk	1973	86 KB
Early European Contact with the Western Carolines	1972	70 KB
Spanish Capuchins in the Carolines	1971	56 KB
Catholic Missions in the Carolines and Marshall Islands	1970	73 KB

Keeping The Information Flow Open: A Key Condition for Good Government in Micronesia	2006	36 KB
In Search of a Talking Point on Human Rights	1995	13 KB
The Cruel Dilemma: Money Economies in the Pacific	1992	24 KB
The Effects of Modernization on Three Areas of Island Life	1987	39 KB

Migration

New Trends in Micronesian Migration	1996	78 KB
with Michael Levin
The Great Flight Northward: FSM Migration to Guam	1989	53 KB
with Thomas McGrath
Micronesian Emigration: The Brain Drain in Palau, Marshalls and the Federated States	1986	109 KB
with Michael Levin

Alcohol and Drug Use in the Republic of the Marshall Islands	1997	231 KB
Alcohol and Drug Use in the Federated States of Micronesia	1997	308 KB
Distribution of Spirit Possession and Trance in Micronesia	1996	117 KB
with Jay Dobbin
Possession and Trance in Chuuk	1993	86 KB
with Jay Dobbin
Schizophrenia and Chronic Mental Illness in Micronesia: An Epidemiological Survey	1992	71 KB
with Michael Wylie
In Search of the Social Roots of Mental Pathology in Micronesia	1986	67 KB
Youth Drinking in Micronesia	1982	60 KB
The Anthropologist and Social Problems in Micronesia	1978	26 KB

Suicide

What Can We Do to Prevent Suicide?	1989	231 KB
Suicide in the Micronesian Family	1989	83 KB
Truk Suicide Epidemic and Social Change	1986	59 KB
Cultural Patterns in Trukese Sucide	1984	53 KB
Micronesia's Hanging Spree	1976	27 KB