Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Pacific Encounters: Art & Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860

Hooper, Steven · 2006

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, for the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volume, big, tall, quarto-sized trade edition with glossy, pictorial card-stock wraps. Stuffed with...

Vision and Reality in Pacific Religion: Essays in Honour of Niel Gunson

Herda, Phyllis, Michael Reilly and David Hilliard, eds. · 2005

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Canterbury, New Zealand / Canberra, A.C.T., Austra, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies / Pandanus Books, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only ver...

The Religious Imagination in New Guinea

Herdt, Gilbert and Michele Stephen, eds. · 1989

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 1989. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and accessible survey of religion and animism, Christianity and spirituality across New Guinea, with contributions by the editors, Gilbert Herdt and Michele Stephen, includi...

Gold-Dust and Ashes

Idriess, Ion L. · 1933

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Angus & Robertson, 1933. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. His Australian Dictionary of Biography entry notes that the subject of this fine memoir of gold-mining and gold-miners, Cecil John Levien (1874-1932), was a distric...

Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life

Ingold, Tim, ed. · 1997

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Routledge, 1997. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Massively heavy, oversized volume, being the First Paperback Edition and in sterling condition. Glossy pictorial covers, clean and unmarked of interior. This Companion to the Encyclopedia of An...

New Guinea Government: An Introduction

Jinks, Brian · 1971

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Angus and Robertson, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only two additional copies on-line currently. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly...

Pathways to Heaven: Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea

Jebens, Holger · 2005

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive hardcover copy of a stellar ethnography focused on Seventh Day Adventist and other Pentecostal Christian denominations in Pairundu, Southern Highlands Province. Unfurled tips,...

Pathways to Heaven: Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea

Jebens, Holger · 2005

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy of a stellar ethnography focused on Seventh Day Adventist and other Pentecostal Christian denominations in Pairundu, Southern Highlands Province. Unfurled tips,...

Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology

Jaarsma, Sjoerd R. and Marta A. Rohatynskyj, eds. · 2000

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the second author at first free endpaper, being inscribed warmly to the previous owner, another fine ethnographer of Papua New Guinea, John Barker. Sterling conditi...

Pathways to Heaven: Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea

Jebens, Holger · 2006

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2006. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a stellar ethnography focused on Seventh Day Adventist and other Pentecostal Christian denominations in Pairundu, Southern Highlands Province. Unfurled tips, tight bindin...

Cargo, Cult & Culture Critique

Jebens, Holger · 2004

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. 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. Holger Jebens has edited a fine rea...

Vengeance Is Their Reply, Blood Feuds and Homicides on Bellona Island, Part 1: Conditions Underlying Generations of Bloodshed; Part 2: Oral Traditions

Kuschel, Rolf · 1988

$108.00 (€97.99 | £81.75 | ¥17,246)

København, Denmark, Dansk Psykologisk Forlag, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being no copies available on-line currently comprising both volumes in the set of two, a fine and important contribution to the study of the ...

Martyr of the Islands: The Life and Death of John Coleridge Patteson

Gutch, John · 1971

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Illustrated endpapers of the insular Pacific. A fine and quite readable biography of the Bishop of Melanesia and who was murdered and thus martyred on the Western Melanesian atoll of Nukapu ...

Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village

Gregor, Thomas · 1977

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1977. 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, but sunned on spine ...

Ancient Polynesian Society

Goldman, Irving · 1970

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. All 18 ancient Polynesian cultures are dealt with excellently by Irving Goldman in terms of ethnology, ethnography and archaeology, linguistics, archives, both native peop...

Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Goddard, Michael · 2011

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. From the personal library of Dan Jorgensen, noted Papua New Guinea scholar and major ethnographer ...

Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Goddard, Michael · 2011

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. From the personal library of Dan Jorgensen, noted Papua New Guinea scholar and major ethnographer ...

Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts: Representing the Chambri in a World System

Gewertz, Deborah B. and Frederick K. Errington · 1991

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1991. 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 to the glossy card-stock wraps, tho...

Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands

Gewertz, Deborah and Frederick Errington · 2010

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the authors at first free endpaper, being warmly inscribed to the previous owner, a noted insular Pacific scholar and researcher himself, a Melanesianist, J...

Savage Money: The Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange

Gregory, C.A. · 1997

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

The Netherlands, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a stunning ethnography of commodity exchange in Central India by a noted economic anthropologist and who has also worked in Papua New Gui...