Informal Session: Identity Issues and Ethno-Racial Categorization in the Pacific
Organizers: Pauline McKenzie Aucoin and Michael Goldsmith

There were six confirmed participants in this session from the US, NZ, Australia and Canada, but this session was unfortunately cancelled when the first organizer had to cancel her attendance at the last moment, others were unable to make it because of inclement weather and the second organizer made an early decision not to fly from summer into winter. Only one of the interested participants was able to make it to the meeting. A future session on this topic is to be organized as a “working session” for 2011 and ASAO members interested in participating should contact the organizers before June 1, 2010.

Paula McKenzie Aucoin, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa CANADA; <Pauline_Aucoin@carleton.ca>

Michael Goldsmith, Department of Societies and Cultures, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, NEW ZEALAND; <mikegold@waikato.ac.nz>