Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire

Thomas, Nicholas · 2010

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New Haven, Connecticut , Yale University Press, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Some penned tick-marks and underlining up front and then near completely dissipating. A brig...

The Cassowary's Revenge: The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society

Tuzin, Donald F. · 1997

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997. Second Edition . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. One of the very best ethnographies about the Sepik River peoples and their cultures and histories ever written, mostly about the Ilahita Arapesh of East Sepik Province, Papua New G...

Dealing with Inequality: Analysing Gender Relations in Melanesa and Beyond

Strathern, Marilyn, ed. · 1987

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Tightly bound, with a very few penned tick-marks and erased penciled-marks, else clean and b...

The Ilahita Arapesh: Dimensions of Unity

Tuzin, Donald F. · 1977

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. One of the very best ethnographies about the Sepik River peoples and their cultures and histories ever written, mostly about the Ilahita Arapesh of East Sepik Provinc...

The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers

Schieffelin, Edward L. · 2005

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Palgrave Macmillan, St. Martin's Press, 2005. Second Edition. Softcover. . A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the stated Second Edition and with a new black-and-white photograph with the author and his interlocutor at frontis; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy.An e...

In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories

Thomas, Nicholas · 1997

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Previous owner's inscription, neatl...

The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers

Schieffelin, Edward L. · 1976

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, St. Martin's Press, 1976. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Heavily worn and creased pictorial wraps, underlining and highlighting interior, scuffing to, loss of paper on rear panel. ...

Person, Self, and Experience: Exploring Pacific Ethnopsychologies

White, Geoffrey M. and John Kirkpatrick, eds. · 1985

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and accessible survey of ethnopsychatries across the insular Pacific, with contributions by Geoffrey M. White and John Kirkpatrick, the editors, and by Catheri...

Inalienable Possessions

Weiner, Annette B. · 1992

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals but for scattered remains of erased penciling, showing only very slight shel...

Melanesians and Missionaries: An Ethnohistorical Study of Social and Religious Change in the Southwest Pacific

Whiteman, Darrell · 1983

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Pasadena, California, William Carey Library, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond sunning to spine and rear pane...

Anyan's Story: A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds

Watson, Virginia Drew · 1997

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 1997. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An evocative, accessible memoir of life and work in New Guinea. Marred only by the previous owner's address label at first free endpaper and by a single penned marginal note; from ...

Co-Operatives in Papua New Guinea

Singh, Sumer · 1974

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia / Boroko, Port Moresby, New Guinea Research Unit, The Australian National University, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. New Guinea Research Bulletin No. 58. Clean, unmarked, with illustrated card-stock wraps, little wear and ...

Traditional Marriage and the Impact of Christianity on the Solos of Buka Island

Sarei, A.H. · 1974

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea / Canberra, A.C.T.,, New Guinea Research Unit, The Australian National University, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. New Guinea Research Bulletin No. 57. Previous owner's penned inscription at first free endpaper, else cle...

Culture in Practice: Selected Essays

Sahlins, Marshall · 2000

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Zone Books, 2000. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy in oversized trade paperback format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps. From th...

Two Worlds: First Meetings Betwen Maori and Europeans 1642-1772

Salmond, Anne · 1991

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 1991. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A brilliant social history that ends up with the arrival of Cook's second expedtion in 177. Massively heavy, oversized volume, measuring 10 3/4" x 8" tall and wide, respectively. Sturdy,...

Between Worlds: Early Exchanges between Maori and Europeans 1773-1815

Salmond, Anne · 1997

$38.40 (€34.84 | £29.07 | ¥6,132)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A brilliant social history that picks up where Two Worlds left off, with the arrival of Cook's second expedtion in 1773, and takes the story fo 1815. Massively heavy, oversi...

The Gender of the Gift

Strathern, Marilyn · 1988

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. One of the ground-breaking collections of essays by a preeminent New Guinea Highlands-focused ethnographer. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to mode...

Millennial Markers

Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern, eds. · 1997

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Townsville, Australia, Centre for Pacific Studies, James Cook University of North Queensland, 1997. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. O...

Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future

Stewart, Pamela J. and Andrew Strathern · 2004

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Palgrave, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine ethnography of a Central Highlands people, the Duna, and the changes in their social and cultural lives, by two well-known ethnographers. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, ti...

Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital

Street, Alice · 2014

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2014. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine addition to the Experimental Futures series, published in First Edition stated in 2014, a fine ethnography. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but comple...