波利尼西亞社會是一個非營利組織，設(shè)在新西蘭奧克蘭大學(xué)。該協(xié)會成立于1892年，旨在對新西蘭和其他太平洋島國人民和文化的過去和現(xiàn)在進(jìn)行學(xué)術(shù)研究。它主要通過《波利尼西亞社會雜志》來實(shí)現(xiàn)這一目標(biāo)，該季刊始于該學(xué)會成立之初，至今仍在持續(xù)。《華爾街日報》的早期版本包含了豐富的本地文本和傳統(tǒng)，這些文本和傳統(tǒng)是由太平洋人民、傳教士和其他旅居者貢獻(xiàn)的，通常以當(dāng)?shù)卣Z言出版，并附有英文翻譯。長期在該雜志上發(fā)表文章的學(xué)者包括：在密克羅尼西亞和美拉尼西亞以及波利尼西亞工作的社會/文化人類學(xué)家、考古學(xué)家、歷史學(xué)家、語言學(xué)家和物理/生物人類學(xué)家。最近，社會學(xué)家、政治科學(xué)家、經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家和其他學(xué)者也加入了他們的行列。波利尼西亞社會雜志的早期編輯是S.PercySmith、W.H.Skinner和ElsdonBest。自20世紀(jì)50年代中期以來，大多數(shù)編輯都與奧克蘭大學(xué)人類學(xué)系有聯(lián)系，其中包括杰克·高爾森、布魯斯·G·比格斯、默里·格羅夫斯、安東尼·胡珀、梅文·麥克林、杰夫·歐文、理查德·莫伊爾、朱迪思·亨茨曼和梅琳達(dá)·艾倫，最后兩位是現(xiàn)任編輯。奧克蘭大學(xué)圖書館和波利尼西亞社會合作將該期刊數(shù)字化。除了最近兩年的滾動禁運(yùn)外，所有的交易量現(xiàn)在都已完成。波利尼西亞社會的許多回憶錄都被寄給了該雜志的成員。這些在最初的項(xiàng)目過程中被數(shù)字化了。現(xiàn)在，一些其他的回憶錄已經(jīng)開始數(shù)字化并添加到網(wǎng)站上。

The Polynesian Society is a non-profit organization based at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Founded in 1892, the Society’s aim was the scholarly study of past and present New Zealand Māori and other Pacific Island peoples and cultures. It has pursued this aim primarily through the Journal of the Polynesian Society, a quarterly publication begun at the Society’s inception and enduring to the present.The early issues of the Journal contain a rich repository of indigenous texts and traditions contributed by Pacific peoples, as well as by missionaries and other sojourners, often published in local languages with English translations. Among the scholars who have long contributed articles to the Journal are social/cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists and physical/biological anthropologists working in Micronesia and Melanesia, as well as Polynesia. More recently they have been joined by sociologists, political scientists, economists and other scholars.Early editors of the Journal of the Polynesian Society were S. Percy Smith, W.H. Skinner and Elsdon Best. Since the mid-1950s most editors have been associated with the Anthropology Department of the University of Auckland, among them Jack Golson, Bruce G. Biggs, Murray Groves, Antony Hooper, Mervyn McLean, Geoff Irwin, Richard Moyle, Judith Huntsman and Melinda Allen, the last two being the present editors.The University of Auckland Library and the Polynesian Society have collaborated in digitising the Journal. All volumes have now been completed, except for a rolling embargo on the most recent two years.Many earlier Memoirs of the Polynesian Society were sent to members along with the Journal. These have been digitised in the course of the original project.Work has now begun on digitising some of the other Memoirs and adding them to the site.