Community Development in Western Samoa by Hans Gullestrup
$18.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Survey of a Project Form and its Implementation. Social Studies in Oceania and South East Asia 1. It consists partly of a case study of two concrete development projects in Western Samoa, partly of the initial steps towards the formation of a hypothesis in respect of the interplay between c ...Show more
Cousteau's Papua New Guinea by J. M. Cousteau
$17.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. In 1988, as one of the first in a new series of expeditions called "Rediscovery of the World,", The Cousteau Society set out to explore the aquatic and land environments and cultures of the eastern half of Papua New Guinea. In addition to the vivid narrative account of the day to day events ...Show more
Culture and History in the Pacific by Jukka Siikala
$18.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. A collection of essays originally published in 1990. The texts explore from different perspectives the question of culture as a repository of historical information. They also address broader questions of anthropological writing at the time, such as the relationship between anthropologists' ...Show more
Dobu: Ethics Of Exchange On A Massim Island, Papua New Guinea by Susanne Kuhling
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
This is an ethnography of Dobu, a Massim society of Papua New Guinea, which has been renowned in social anthropology since Fortune's Sorcerers of Dobu (1932). Focusing on exchange and its underlying ethics, this book explores the concept of the person in the Dobu world view. The book examines major aspe ...Show more
Doctor in Papua by Berkeley Vaughan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. Missionary Doctor on Kwato Island, China Strait, Papua New Guinea. June 1935 to the evacuation of Samarai in 1942.
Drugs in Western Pacific Societies: Relations of Substance Issue 11 of ASAO Monograph by Lamont Lindstrom (ed.)
$18.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. Essays about drug use within interpersonal relations in the Pacific.
First Contacts in Polynesia: The Samoan Case (1722-1848) : Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity by Serge Tcherkezoff
$32.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. This book explores the first encounters between Samoans and Europeans up to the arrival of the missionaries, using all available sources for the years 1722 to the 1830s, paying special attention to the first encounter on land with the Laperouse expedition. "First Contacts" advances a hypoth ...Show more
Gift of the Cotton Maiden - Textiles of Flores and the Solor Islands by Roy W. Hamilton (Contribution by, Editor); Ruth Barnes (Contribution by); Maribeth Erb (Contribution by); Penelope Graham (Contribution by); Willemijn De Jong (Contribution by); E. Douglas Lewis (Contribution by); Michael P. Vischer (Contribution by)
$32.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: Exhibition Ser.
Gogodala, Lagoon Dwellers of the Gulf by Anthony L. Crawford
$20.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. First published in 1975, this copy is Reprint 1980. Gogodala is the name of an ethnic/language group from the Middle Fly District of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. This pictorial book is their life stories.