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
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.
Big-Men and Business: Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in the New Guinea Highlands by Ben R. Finney
$22.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. High in the New Guinea mountains a sociological drama of unique design has been unfolding since the early 1930s. At that time the first of the Europeans who would take part in the areas development trekked into the remote highlands. These early gold prospectors, patrol officers, and mission ...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
Na Kkai Taku: Taku's Musical Fables (Apwitihire: Studies in Papua New Guinea Musics, 7) by Richard Moyle
$37.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. This modest anthology of fables represents the first publication in the language of Taku, a Polynesian outlier situated off the east coast of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. The island's small size and remoteness have left it largely untouched by Western influences, and a forty-year-ol ...Show more
The Curse of Souw: Principles of Daribi Clan Definition and Alliance by Roy Wagner
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Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The first full-length study of a little-known mountain people of New Guinea. Subsisting by primitive agriculture in the overcast rain forests on the rim of the central highlands, the Daribi clasman experiences the world in terms of a universal causality. The shaming of the culture-hero Souw ...Show more
The Making of South East Asia by George Cœdès
$22.50 NZD
Category: World History
Secondhand. From the time of its original publication in France, this cultural history (first published in English in 1966) by an international authority has stood apart from other histories of South East Asia. Most such accounts describe events before 1500 in summary fashion, and concentrate on later ...Show more
Pigs, Pearlshells, and Women;: Marriage in the New Guinea highlands by Robert M. Glasse, Mervyn J. Meggitt
$15.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The articles written for this book show how the religious ideas and ritual actions of the people express their pervasive materialism and rationalize their often tense relations between men and women. The authors show also how the exchange of women in highland societies reflects the politica ...Show more
Last Days In New Guinea by Charles Arthur Whitmore Monckton
$22.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. First Last Days In New Guinea is a memoir written by Charles Arthur Whitmore Monckton, first published in 1922. The book documents Monckton's experiences as a colonial officer in the British Empire, serving in the remote and wild region of Papua New Guinea during the early 20th century.Mon ...Show more
Remembering Papua New Guinea by William C. Clarke
$47.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The Maring people of Papua New Guinea had their first contact with a European just six years before geographer and anthropologist William C. Clarke arrived to spend a year living with them in 1964. By the 1990s, after years of storage in tropical climes, the photographs Clarke took in PNG h ...Show more
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.
The Island at the Centre of the World - The untold story of Dutch Manhattan and the Founding of New York by Russell Shorto
$18.50 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good