Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Standing Up with Ga'Axsta'Las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom

Robertson, Leslie A.; the Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan · 2012

$68.00 (€61.70 | £51.47 | ¥10,859)

Vancouver, British Columbia, University of British Columbia, 2012 . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine work set in the Pacific Northwest Native Northwest, a fne work of ethnology and ethnography. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discer...

The High Valley

Read, Kenneth E. · 1966

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, England, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. As classic a Highlands New Guinea ethnography as can be found, a ground-breaking and sensitive work about the culture and social-structure in Central New Guinea. Fine-looking,...

Papua New Guinea's Last Place

Reed, Adam · 2006

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2006. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Adam Reed received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is currently Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology. This is an ethnography of Boumana Gaol in Port Moresby. Fine-l...

Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea

Rumsey, Alan and James F. Weiner, eds. · 2001

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 2001. 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. Contributions by the two editors, Al...

Papua New Guinea's Last Place

Reed, Adam · 2003

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Adam Reed received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is currently Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology. This is an ethnograph of Boumana Gaol in Port Moresby. Fine-look...

Houses Far from Home: British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides

2001

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and inventive, eminently cultural look at the reproduction of British colonialism in Vanuatu, the former New Hebrides, as witnessed in housing style for expatriates th...

The Haus Tambaran of Bongiora: A View from Within of the Tambaran and Yam Cults of the Abelam in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, 1972-1977

G. J. M. Gerrits (Author); Elisabetta Gerrits, G.J.M.; Gnecchi Ruscone, ed.; Christian Kaufmann, ed. · 2012

$116.00 (€105.25 | £87.80 | ¥18,524)

Italy, Giampiero Casagrande Editore, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available currently on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips (all four, rounded), tight binding, ...

The Pacification of Melanesia, A.S. A.O. Monograph No. 7

Rodman, William L. and Matthew Cooper, eds. · 1983

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 1983. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a fine A.S.A.O. Monograph series tome, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Contribu...

Bishop Patteson: The Martyr of Melanesia

Page, Jesse · 0

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

London, England, S.W. Partridge & Co., . . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Publication date not stated, but perhaps early 20th-century, the Twenty-Seventh Thousand edition. Illustrated red clot...

The West New Guinea Debacle: Dutch Decolonisation and Indonesia, 1945-1962

Penders, C.L.M. · 2002

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A good, one-volume, accessible social history of the end of Dutch colonial rule in Indonesia, the early years of independent Indonesia post-1949 and the eventual colonization...

John G. Paton, D.D. , Missionary to the New Hebrides: An Autobiography

Paton, John Gibson · 1891

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An unusually sturdy exemplar of John Gibson Paton's autobiography of his time with the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland and his mission work in New Hebrides (- Vanuatu) and in cahoot...

Life in Lesu: The Study of a Melanesian Society in New Ireland

Powdermaker, Hortense · 1933

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

London, England, Williams & Norgate, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bumping to spine head and foot, slight forward cock to ...

The Story of Dr. John G. Paton's Thirty Years with South Seas Cannibals

James Paton, ed.; A.K. Langridge, revisions · 1923

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

George H. Doran, , 1923. Centenary Edition . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the so-called Centenary Edition, edited by the subject's/author's brother, Dr. James Paton and then revised by A.K. Langridge; nothing fancy, but complete...

Seagulls Don't Fly Into the Bush: Cultural Identity and Development in Melanesia

Pomponio, Alice · 1992

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Prospect Heights, Illinois, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1992. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and gentle introduction to Melanesian ethnography and especially to the Vitiaz Straits. Foreword by the series editor, James Clifton. Volume contains scholarly apparatu...

Seagulls Don't Fly Into the Bush: Cultural Identity and Development in Melanesia

Pomponio, Alice · 1992

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Belmont, California, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author, inscribed warmly to and from the personal library of a noted Papua New Guinea-based researcher, scholar, activist and teacher, Laura Tamakoshi, who...

Two Tahitian Villages: A Study in Comparisons

Douglas Oliver · 1981

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Honolulu, Hawaii, The Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University-Hawaii Campus, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Classic ethnographic comparison of two rural Tahitian villages by a doyenne of cultural anthropology in the insular Pacific...

Oceania the Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands, Complete in Two Volumes

Oliver, Douglas L. · 1989

$68.00 (€61.70 | £51.47 | ¥10,859)

Honululu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Two splendid exemplars of the path-breaking, then definitive survey of the Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands. Perfect for college-level courses on pre-con...

Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Tolai Past

Neumann, Klaus · 1992

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.38 | ¥4,088)

Honolulu, Hawaii, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Pacific Islands Monograph Series, this being #10 in the series....

Colonial Town to Melanesian City: Port Moresby 1884-1974

Oram, N.D. · 1976

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, Australian National University Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition exemplar, bound simply in decorated cloth over boards, orange lettering to front cover, rubbed, faded orane lettering to spine. Clean, tigh...

The History of the Tahitian Mission 1799-1830

Newbury, C.W., ed. · 1961

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Cambridge, England, For the Hakluyt Society by Cambridge University Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, bound handsomely in blue cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, little discer...