The Pacific Theater - Island Representations of World War II by Geoffrey M. White (Editor); Lamont Lindstrom (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: Pacific Islands Monographs
Contributions from anthropologists participating in a symposium of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, New Harmony, Indiana, 1986, examine the experiences of Pacific Islanders in the war and their remembrances of it as observers, laborers, on patrol, under bombardment.
The People From the Horizon: An Illustrated history of the Europeans among the South Sea Islanders by Philip Snow and Stefanie Waine
$42.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
South Sea Islands conjure up romantic images of palm-fringed coral beaches and dusky maidens. At a time when Pacific countries are gaining independence and when contact with the outside world is becoming more frequent and more superficial with the advent of package tours, it is worthwhile taking stock o ...Show more
The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea by Gilbert Herdt
$15.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. This cultural and psychological study of gender identity and sexual development in a New Guinea Highlands society includes initiation rites and socialization studies, and contrasts the Sambia with other societies, including our own. Sambia boys experience ritualized homosexuality before pub ...Show more
The Southwest Pacific to 1900: A modern history by C. Hartley Grattan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
The Straight Path of the Spirit : Ancestral Wisdom and Healing Traditions in Fiji by Richard Katz
$37.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
The Turtle and The Island: Folk Tales from Papua New Guinea by Donald S. Stokes; Barbara Ker Wilson; Tony Oliver
$32.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. First published in 1978. The is a copy of 1985 Reprint. The book tells the folk tale of how the great sea-turtle builds the island of Papua New Guinea and brings the first man and the first woman to its lush shores. A beautifully told creation myth with glowing, naive-style paintings. Coll ...Show more
"The Vailala Madness", and other Essays by Francis Edgar Williams, Erik Schwimmer(ed.)
$37.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Francis Edgar Williams died in an aeroplane crash in the Owen Stanley Range in 1943 at the age of fifty. He had been a Rhodes Scholar (1915) and obtained a Diploma in Anthropology with distinction at Oxford (1922). Also in 1922 he became Assistant Anthropologist, Papua, and in 1928 Governme ...Show more
The Voyaging Stars - Secrets of the Pacific Island Navigators by David Lewis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Second hand, ex library.
The White Men: The first response of aboriginal peoples to the white man by Julia Blackburn
$37.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. A tribute to the will to survive the impact of European arrivals, a reflection of our civilization seen through indigenous people's eyes. Gathered together for the first time, are the responses and impressions of the native populations of the advent of the white man onto their shores. "Alwa ...Show more
Throwim Way Leg - An Adventure by Tim Flannery
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Throwim Way Leg is a book of wonder and excitement, struggle and sadness, a love letter to Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. 'In New Guinea Pidgin,' Tim Flannery explains, 'throwim way leg means to go on a journey. It describes the action of thrusting out your leg to take the first step of what can be a ...Show more