Taim Bilong Masta: The Australian involvement with Papua New Guinea by Hank Nelson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. First published in 1982 and based on the 24-part ABC Radio series produced by Tim Bowden, this well-illustrated book tells the stories of the Australians who went to Papua and New Guinea to live, rule, convert and mine.
That They Might Live by Ellen Kettle
$37.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. First edition and rare. This book is the story of nurses who, over a period of one hundred years, 1874-1975, devoted their lives to bring Papua New Guinea from a state of savagery to nationhood. Among them were Dr. Ako Toua, the first national Director of Health, and later Mr. E. Robin Safi ...Show more
The Bikinians - A Study in Forced Migration by Robert C. Kiste
$22.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: The\Kiste and Ogan Social Change Series in Anthropology
The Chimbu: A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands by Paula Brown
$21.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. A case study of the Chimbu, a people who had for thousands of years living isolated from the civilized world in New Guinea.
The Curse of Souw: Principles of Daribi Clan Definition and Alliance by Roy Wagner
$18.50 NZD
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 Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms by Patrick Vinton Kirch
$44.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: New Studies in Archaeology Ser.
This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of complex social and political systems in this region have long interested anthropologists and ethnographers, the islands' rich sources of archaeological data h ...Show more
The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847 by Keith Windschuttle
$150.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Autographed. First published in 2002, this is reprinted with corrections and revisions 2005. This is the first volume in a series that re-appraises the now widely accepted story about conflict between colonists and Aborigines in Australian history. Beginning in Tasmania, and eventually cove ...Show more
The Feel of Truth: Essays in New Zealand and Pacific History by Peter Munz (editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Presented to F.L.W. Wood and J.C. Beaglehole on the occasion of their retirement.
The First Taint of Civilization - A History of the Caroline and Marshall Islands in Pre-Colonial Days, 1521-1885 by Francis X. Hezel
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: Pacific Islands Monographs | Reading Level: very good
"Hezel writes clearly and with erudition and commands an impressive body of information. His book is a tour de force.... Not only will it be read eagerly by Pacific scholars, but it should find a wide audience among well-educated Micronesians hungry for greater understanding of how their islands have be ...Show more
The Forgotten People of the Pacific by Philippe Diole, J. F. Bernard (translator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The author's account of his travels throughout the Pacific Islands and description of the people and their customs. Illustrated with maps, colour and black and white illustrations.