Hawaiki a new approach to Maori tradition (Signed) by Margaret Orbell
$55.00 NZD
Category: Maori History, Society & Culture
Hell and Paradise - The Norfolk-Bounty-Pitcairn Saga - SIGNED by Peter Clarke
$32.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Here is a novel popular history on a topic of perennial interestthe mutiny on the Bounty saga and its aftermath. Norfolk and Pitcairn are two island specks in the South Pacific separated by over 3700 miles but joined in a common heritage. Both have been and still are home to the scattered descendants of ...Show more
How Chiefs Became Kings - Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i by Patrick Vinton Kirch
$32.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex chiefdom. Integ ...Show more
Imagining the Other - The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject by Regis Tove Stella
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: Pacific Islands Monograph Ser.
Much has been written about Papua New Guinea over the last century and too often in ways that legitimated or served colonial interests through highly pejorative and racist descriptions of Papua New Guineans. Paying special attention to early travel literature, works of fiction, and colonial reports, law ...Show more
Imperial Benevolence by Jane Samson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
This analysis of British imperialism in the south Pacific explores the impulses behind British calls for the protection and "improvement" of islanders. From kingmaking projects in Hawai'i, Tonga and Fiji to the "antislavery" campaign against the labour trade in the western Pacific, the author examines t ...Show more
Island Administration In The South West Pacific by Cyril S. Belshaw
$30.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Government and Reconstruction in New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, and the British Solomon Islands.
Islands and Beaches - Discourse on a Silent Land, Marquesas, 1774-1880 by Greg Dening
$65.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Keneti - South Seas Adventures of Kenneth Emory by Bob Krauss
$55.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Kilenge Life and Art: A Look at a New Guinea People by Philip John Crosskey Dark
$37.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. First impressions of the Kilenge, a group of some 1000 people living in the western tip of the island of New Britain. 246 illustrations with introduction to New Guinea and the Kilenge.
Knowing The Gururumba: Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology by Philip L. Newman
$18.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. The Gururumba live in six large villages in the upper Asaro Valley, New Guinea. We see the Gururumba in their natural setting, and then how their behavior is patterned and arranged in social groups and roles. Contents: Introduction; The People, The Setting, The Beginning; The Strategy of ...Show more