Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 15:50:12 +22305931 (MDT) From: r.palat@auclkand.ac.nz Subject: Ravi Arvind Palat. Ravi Arvind Palat Department of Sociology University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 5313 FAX: +64-9-373-7439 E-Mail: R.Palat@auclkand.ac.nz Currently Lecturer in Sociology (from July 1993:' Previously, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Univ. of Hawaii (1989-93); Research interests: world-systems analysis, sociology of colonialism, historical sociology; editor, Pacific-Asia and the Future of the World-System (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993). Current projects: excavating the future of area studies in a post-American world, myth of an impending Pacific century, rethinking 18th century Indian history