Doctor in Papua by Berkeley Vaughan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. Missionary Doctor on Kwato Island, China Strait, Papua New Guinea. June 1935 to the evacuation of Samarai in 1942.
New Guinea: Problems and Prospects by Peter Hastings
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Second edition. “New Guinea: Problems and Prospects is a survey of Papua New Guinea’s geography, people, culture, history, economy and political development up to the eve of self-government and independence, and of its future relations with Australia and its neighbours. In this second edit ...Show more
Marriage in Papua New Guinea: Results of a research project
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. A monograph companied to the Law Reform Commission's Occasional Paper No. 18, Marriage and Domestic Violence in Rural Papua New Guinea. Based on research carried out in 1982.
Community Development in Western Samoa by Hans Gullestrup
$18.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Survey of a Project Form and its Implementation. Social Studies in Oceania and South East Asia 1. It consists partly of a case study of two concrete development projects in Western Samoa, partly of the initial steps towards the formation of a hypothesis in respect of the interplay between c ...Show more
Melanesian Politics by Stael Blong Vanuatu
$65.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. Western Pacific Vanuatu's population of 150,000 scattered over 80 islands has over 100 local languages, a record for culturally diverse countries per capita, overlaid by 70 years of joint colonial rule by Great Britain and France. The resulting rivalries are documented here.
Blood is Their Argument: Warfare Among the Mae Enga Tribesmen of the New Guinea Highlands by Mervyn J. Meggitt
$22.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
Secondhand. The scarcity of arable land in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea has created fierce competition among the Mae Enga for territorial control. Blood Is Their Argument studies the Mae Enga and their continuous struggle to survive and sustain both power and prestige.
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
$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