Structure, Verses, Agency Books

The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation

Cavafy, C.P.; Aliki Barnstone, transl. · 2006

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight sh...

Collected Poems

Cavafy, C.P.; Daniel Mendelsohn, trans. · 2009

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. For the Cavafy completist. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available currently. The collected poems of C.P. Cavafy, translated, and with comment...

Historical Vines: Enga Networks of Exchange, Ritual, and Warfare in Papua New Guinea

Wiessner, Polly and Akii Tumu · 1991

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a trade paperback format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. From ...

Greek Sculpture

Lullies, Reinhard · 1957

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

London, Thames and Hudson, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, bound in oatmeal cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine and gilt-stamped publisher logo to front cover. Little discernible wear thereto, bright...

Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s

O'Hanlon, Michael & Robert L. Welsch, eds. · 2000

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

London, Berghahn Books, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another brilliant contribution to the Methodology and History in Anthropology series, being the sixth volume. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, ...

Oceanic Art

Thomas, Nicholas · 1995

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Thames & Hudson, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals but for previous owner's address label, that of the ethnographer John Barker, showing only very slight sh...

Imagining the Pacific in the Wake of the Cook Voyages

Smith, Bernard · 1992

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Another fine addition to the Miegunyah Press Series, this being #10. This is the greatly expanded revision of the prior European Vision ...

Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power Among the Usen Barok of New Ireland

Wagner, Roy · 1986

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, previous owner's penciled tick-marks and underlining erased carefully. A fine and accessi...

Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State

White, Geoffrey M. and Lamont Lindstrom, eds. · 1997

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.38 | ¥4,088)

Stanford, California, Stanford Universty Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade in this state and condition, being one of only two copies in hardcover format available on-line currently. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcov...

Habu: The Innovation of Meaning in Daribi Religion

Wagner, Roy · 1972

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A brilliant ethnography by an esteemed ethnographer, Roy Wagner. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright raspberry ...

The Moon Man: A Biography of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay

Webster, E.M. · 1984

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. The then definitive biography of a "strange man," the Russian traveler and explorer, Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, born in 1846, dead by 1888, and well known for being th...

Tairora Culture: Contingency and Pragmatism

Watson, James B. · 1983

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A classic ethnography from a leading ethnographer of the 1960s-1980s in Highland New Guinea. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, clean, lightly tone...

Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society

Wardlow, Holly · 2006

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fabulous ethnography, and I'm cited in it! A perfectly serviceable reference copy from the personal library of a noted Papua New Guinea-based researcher, John Barke...

The Moon Man: A Biography of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay

Webster, E.M. · 1984

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. The then definitive biography of a "strange man," the Russian traveler and explorer, Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, born in 1846, deady by 1888, and well known for being t...

Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives in Trobriand Exchange

Weiner, Annette B. · 1976

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An edge-cutting ethnography countering the orthodoxy of Bronislau Malinowsky's functionalist rendering of Trobriander culture (and no history). Special focus on a parallel econom...

Lethal Speech: Daribi Myth As Symbolic Obviation

Wagner, Roy · 1978

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine contribution to the series, Symbol, Myth, and Ritual, edited by Victor Turner. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, clean but for previous owner's insc...

Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives in Trobriand Exchange

Weiner, Annette B. · 1976

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An edge-cutting ethnography countering the orthodoxy of Bronislau Malinowsky's functionalist rendering of Trobriander culture (and no history). Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound ...

The Curse of Souw: Principles of Daribi Clan Definition and Alliance in New Guinea

Wagner, Roy · 1967

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Chicago, University of Chicago, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. One of the preeminent ethnographies of early-mid Golden Era of Papua New Guinea studies by a real, certified genius, Roy Wagner. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, minimal rubbin...

Between Cash and Conviction: The Social Context of the Bismarck-Ramu Integrated Conservation and Development Project

Van Helden, Flip · 1998

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, National Research Institute, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. National Research Institute monograph #33, published in First Edition state in 1998. Sterling condition softcover copy, oversized, with unfurled tips,...

The Severed Snake: Matrilineages, Making Place and a Melanesian Christianity in Southeast Solomon Islands

Scott, Michael W. · 2007

$49.60 (€45.00 | £37.54 | ¥7,920)

Durham, North Carolina, Carolina Academic Press, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently only one additional copy available on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean...