Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Kings and Councillors: An Essay in the Comparative Anatomy of Human Society

Hocart, A. M. · 1970

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1970. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A clearly unread copy, brick-red cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Spine still crackles. Paper dust-wrapper present, fully intact, but moderately ...

The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies

Mauss, Marcel; Ian Cunnison, translator · 1974

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Routledge, 1974. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, penned and penciled markings and underlinings here and there as befits the previous owner, a noted Pacific ethnographer...

The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) Society

Munn, Nancy · 1992

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1992. . . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Remembered as "a scholar's scholar," a fine and engrossing rightly influential ethnography of a Massim area people in the sacred archipelago of Papua New Guinea, home of the infamous kula ring. S...

Micronationalist Movements in Papua New Guinea

May, R.J., ed. · 1982

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, Research School of Pacific Studies / Australian National University, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Political and Social Change Monograph 1, inaugurating a fine series of volumes devoted to the insular Pacific. Sturdy, st...

Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures

Matsuda, Matt K. · 2015

$13.60 (€12.34 | £10.29 | ¥2,172)

, Cambridge University Press, 2015. Fourth Printing. Softcover. . Fourth Printing stated, splitting to front bottom tip, else clean, tightly bound and unmarked. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Maps in the text, notes, index and bibliography. "The range of Matt Matsud...

Micronationalist Movements in Papua New Guinea

May, R.J., ed. · 1982

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Canberra, A.C.T., Research School of Pacific Studies / Australian National University, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Political and Social Change Monograph 1, inaugurating a fine series of volumes devoted to the insular Pacific. Sturdy, still tightly...

The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) Society

Munn, Nancy D. · 1992

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1992. Reprint Edition. . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Remembered as "a scholar's scholar," a fine and engrossing rightly influential ethnography of a Massim area people in the sacred archipelago of Papua New Guinea, home of the infamo...

Spirits in Culture, History and Mind

Mageo, Jeannette Marie and Alan Howard, eds. · 1996

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Routledge, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine reader of spirits and culture, ethnography and religion, in the insular Pacific. Edited by Jeannette Marie Mageo and Alan Howard and with contributions by them about spirits, mind and culture ...

The Past and Future People: Tradition and Change on a New Guinea Island

McSwain, Romola · 1977

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oxford University Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine ethnographic and ethnological survey of the Karkar Islanders of Papua New Guinea, including social and cultural change, the occupation by the Japanese durin...

U.S. Army in World War II: Victory in Papua

Milner, Samuel · 1993

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Washington, D.C., U.S. Army in World War II Victory in Papua The War in the Pacific (Special commemorative edition)Samuel MilnerPublished by National Historical Society, 1993, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Nearly pristine but for a clipped first free...

The Language of Magic and Gardening

Malinowski, Bronislaw · 1966

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

London, England, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1966. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Volume 2 of the Coral Gardens and Their Magic trilogy, a fine ethnographic work devoted to the Trobriand islanders of Papua New Guinea and his pioneering work there in the 19-...

New Guinea. Crossing Boundaries and History

Moore, Clive · 2003

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawaii Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, glossy, pictorial. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form ...

Bellona Island Beliefs and Rituals

Monberg, Torben · 1991

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in this state and condition, being SIGNED by the author, inscribed warmly to the ethnographer John Barker and his wife, also an ethnographer. A fine and accessibl...

The Yao Village: A Study in the Social Structure of a Nyasaland Tribe

Mitchell, J. Clyde · 1956

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Manchester, England, Manchester University Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear beyond slight bumping to the spine head and foot; green cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Br...

Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies

Makihara, Miki and Bambi B. Schieffelin, eds. · 2003

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. A fine reader in the sociolinguistics of culture and social change in the insular ...

Inventing Politics: A New Political Anthropology of the Hawaiian Kingdom

Mykkanen, Juri · 2003

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 2003. 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, little worn. Stated First Edition, ...

A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term

Malinowski, Bronislaw · 1989

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1989. Second Reissue. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. When the prior reissue came out in 1987, the major anthropologist James Clifford called it "a crucial document for the history of anthropology." Em nau. It was first publ...

Cannibals Are Human: A District Officer's Wife in New Guinea

McLeod, Helen · 1961

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Angus & Robertson, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition of a fine and accessible memoir by the wife of a colonial administrator in New Guinea. Octavo hardcover, burgundy cloth over boards, gilt lettering to ...

The Oceanic Languages

Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross and Terry Crowley · 2017

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.53 | ¥12,136)

New York, Routledge, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Another fine contribution to the Routledge Language Family Series. Sterling condition softcover copy in a big, fat, sprawling trade softpaper format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean int...

Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society

Lepowsky, Maria · 1993

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Columbia University Press, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A near-pristine copy (of a fine ethnography set in Papua New Guinea among the Vanatinai) of a matrilineal, decentralized island culture. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, ne...