Victoria Joralemon (1983), for example, discusses how collective tenure on Tubai, French Polynesia, is particularly compatible with the requirements of potato cash-cropping. Yet research on other Pacific land tenure systems demonstrates that corporate ownership principles may withstand the pressures of colonialism and capitalism. This finding is remarkable considering that Mokilese land tenure has already gone through a period in which individual ownership was a cultural imperative. On the Mokil Atoll, in Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia, however, there is evidence of a counter-trend towards corporate ownership of land. The decline of `traditional' kin-based ownership is notable in places such as Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Kiribati, and New Zealand. Throughout Oceania, colonial legal policies, cash cropping, the incorporation of island societies into the Western market economy and the rising tide of privatization, are washing away the corporate ownership of land in Pacific island societies.
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