South Pacific Oral Traditions by RuthFinnegan (Editor); Margaret Orbell (Editor)
$32.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: Voices in Performance and Text | Reading Level: good-very good
"This collection of articles touches upon some important issues in humanistic anthropology. . . . Folklorists, students of comparative literature, and anthropologists can all find something of interest in these essays." --American Anthropologist"Superbly edited, impeccably researched, and discriminating ...Show more
Sound and Sentiment - Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression by Steven Feld
$18.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: Conduct and Communication Ser.
This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students. A sensory ethnography set in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, among the Kaluli people of Bosavi, Sound and Sentiment introduced the anth ...Show more
Naven: A Survey of the Problems suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe Drawn from Three Points of View by Gregory Bateson
$65.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. Second edition. Ex-library. "Naven" is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e ceremony is performed to congratulate members of the tribe upon the completion of notable accomplishments, among which homicide ranks highest. Ordinarily this tr ...Show more
Up From South: A Prospector in New Guinea 1931-1937 by Jack O'Neill, James Sinclair(ed.)
$37.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The author tells of prospecting for gold in New Guinea in the 1930s. He prospected at Edie Creek, Wau and Waria and spent much of time on Nauti Creek on the very edge of the forbidden territory of the Kukukuku, a tribe with a bloody history and well-earned reputation for ferocity. Jack O'N ...Show more
Papua New Guinea: Initiation and Independence by Don Woolford
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. First published in 1976, Papua New Guinea was the first book to interpret the key events that led to the nation’s independence in 1975. In the book, journalist Don Woolford, a correspondent for the Australian Associated Press in Papua New Guinea, describes the ferment and excitement of the ...Show more
Papua New Guinea : People, Politics and History Since 1975 by Sean Dorney
$37.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. First published in 1990. This copy is fully revised edition 2000. With an overview of the country's history until Independence in 1975, then ctraces the major themes that have resonated through its first 25 years as a nation: corruption, rich resources, political volatility and uncertainty, ...Show more
South Sea Supercargo: Stories by Louis Becke by Louis Becke, A. Grove Day(ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. This book is a collection of tales by Louis Becke,the master of south sea tales.All of the tales in this book contain stories of Tom Denision(the supercargo)who by the way is Becke's alterego.Becke traveled the waters of the south pacific with Bully Hayes,a notorious scoundrel and sometimes ...Show more
Road Belong Cargo: A Study of the Crago Movement in the Southern Madang District New Guinea by Peter Lawrence
$45.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. First edition. The 1940s and 1950s were marked by an efflorescence of Melanesian cargo cult activities--periodic movements in which native people deeply believed they could attain abundant European goods (and the status that these goods seemed to assure) by ritual means. Road Belong Cargo h ...Show more
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.
South Pacific Brewery: The First 30 Years by James Sinclair
$30.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. This is the story of the first thirty years of Papua New Guinea's first brewing company that began during the Australian colonial era. South Pacific Brewery was established in 1951 to produce beer to satisfy the thirsts of Australian colonialists, at a time when Papua New Gunieans were for ...Show more
Another Image Papua New Guinea by David Bailey
$75.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. Rare. Bailey visited Papua New Guinea for the first time in 1974 and encountered members of its native population, who live deep in the jungle, cut off from modernity. The b/w and color photographs featured in this book provide a close-up view of a civilization untouched by modernity and an ...Show more
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