Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Expecting the Day of Wrath: Versions of the Millennium in Papua New Guinea

Schmid, Christin Kocher, ed. · 1999

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, The National Research Institute, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only two additional copies available currently on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips...

Marquesan Sexual Behavior

Suggs, Robert · 1966

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.38 | ¥4,088)

New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Even the pestles are phallic! Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Brown cloth over boards, st...

Race and Redemption: British Missionaries Encounter Pacific Peoples, 1797-1920

Samson, Jane · 2017

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Grand Rapids, Michigan, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine addition to the Studies in the History of Christian Missions, Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean i...

The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy

Shankman, Paul · 2009

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade in this stated and condition, there being no copies SIGNED by the author, this exemplar being inscribed warmly to another Melanesianist, John Barker....

Culture and Human Nature

Spiro, Melford; Benjamin Kilborne and L.L. Langness, eds. · 2003

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New Brunswick, New Jersey, Transaction Publishers, 2003. Second Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. New Introduction by the author augmented this second printing of the new edition of a classic work in cultural anthropology. Edited by two long-term ethnographers incl...

After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951

Stocking, Jr., George W. · 1995

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Second Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Yet another fine work of the social history of anthropology by the acknowledged Master, George W. Stocking, Jr., beginning in 1968. A perfectly serviceable reference c...

A'Aisa's Gifts: A Study of Magic and the Self

Stephen, Michele · 1995

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine contribution to the series, Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, published by the University of California Press. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moder...

One Father, One Blood. Descent and Group Structure Among the Melpa People

Strathern, Andrew · 1972

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, Australian National University Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Mottled blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine, no signs of mild...

Bert Brown of Papua

Saunders, Garry · 1965

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Michael Joseph, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Proper hagiography of a revered figure in the history of the Christian missionization of Papua New Guinea, of the Reverend Herbert Alfred Brown. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover form...

Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu from Robert Louis Stevenson

Stevenson, Robert Louis · 1914

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1914. . Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. An important oddity for insular Pacific scholars and historians, being a reproduced letter to Joseph De Veuster, a.k.a. "Father Damien," who oversaw the leper colony at Molokai island in Hawaii (1840-1889). ...

A New Guinea Landscape: Community, Space, and Time in the Eastern Highlands

Pataki-Schweizer, K.J. · 1980

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Imperial octavo hardcover format, light brown cloth over boards, sharp ...

The Polynesian Iconoclasm: Religious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power

Sissons, Jeffrey · 2014

$78.40 (€71.13 | £59.34 | ¥12,519)

London, Berghahn Books, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Pictorial covers. A.S.A.O. Studies in Pacific Anthropology, Volume 5. viii [3], 2-170 pp. From the p...

How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, for Example

Sahlins, Marshall · 1995

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, very short, closed tear at rear panel top e...

Cannibal Nights: The Reminiscences of a Free-Lance Trader

Raabe, H.E. · 1927

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Payson & Clarke, Ltd., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, orange cloth over boards, black lettering to spine, rubbed a bit, black diagonal lines to front cover. Forw...

Masters of Tradition: Consequences of Customary Land Tenure in Longana, Vanuatu

Rodman, Margaret Critchlow · 1987

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, University of British Columbia, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Stated First Edition, bound handsomely, simply in brown...

Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat: A Comparative Study

Rubel, Paula G. and Abraham Rosman · 1978

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Chicagot, University of Chicago Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Other people's pigs, however--other people's sweet potatoes, other people's sisters--you may eat." Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interi...

New Guinea Social Science Field Research and Publications 1962-67

Reeves, Susan C. and May Dudley; Ronald G. Crocombe, ed. · 1969

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia / Port Moresby, Papua , The Australian National University, New Guinea Research Unit / University of Papua New Guinea, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and...

Transformations of Gender in Melanesia

MacIntyre, Martha and Ceridwen Spark, eds. · 2017

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, Australian National University Press, 2017. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, less to text-block beyond some unobtrusive and since-erased penciled tick-marks and unobtrusive scat...

We Stay the Same

Roberts, Jason Steadman · 2024

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Press, 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine exemplar of a brilliant work combining ethnography and journalism. Set on New Hanover, Papua New Guinea. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no disc...

The History of Melanesian Society, Volume I, Volume II

Rivers, W.H.R. · 1968

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Oosterhout N.B., The Netherlands, Anthropological Publications, 1968. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. William Halse Rivers Rivers is my hero. Reprint edition of one of the single most important and influential surveys of Melanesia in the heyday of British ethno...