Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia

Foster, Robert J., ed. · 1995

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Gray cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jack...

Mary, the Devil, and Taro: Catholicism and Women's Work in a Micronesian Society

Flinn, Juliana · 2010

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The religion of Catholicism is extremely patriarchal and thus its official narratives and hierarchies sometimes make too little room for women's roles within it. This fine ...

Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection

Winchester, Simon · 2012

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "a" in "...

Women of Courage: An Exhibition of Photographs by Judith Sedwick

Hill, Ruth Edmonds · 1984

$10.40 (€9.44 | £7.87 | ¥1,661)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Radcliffe College, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. SIGNED and DATED by the editor at title page, based on the Black Women Oral History Project sponsored by the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women...

Pacific Rituals: Living or Dying?

Deverell, Gweneth and Bruce Deverell, eds. · 1987

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Suva, Fiji, Institute of Pacific Studes of the University of the South Pacific / Pacific Theological College, 1987. Second Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very...

Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity--a Study of Ritualized Homosexual Behavior

Herdt, Gilbert H. · 1981

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

New York, McGraw-Hill , 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in two-tone, green linen cloth over boards, black cloth-backed, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Dust ja...

The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power Among the New Guinea Baruya

Godelier, Maurice · 1986

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1986. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered...

Big Men & Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia

Godelier, Maurice and Marilyn Strathern, eds. · 1991

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked, with just slight forward cock to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illust...

Polynesian Missions in Melanesia: From Samoa, Cook Islands and Tonga to Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia

Crocombe, Ron and Marjorie Crocombe, eds. · 1982

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.38 | ¥4,088)

Suva, Fiji, Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1982. . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A fine survey of Christian missionization throughout Polynesia and Melanesia, from the early-mid 1800s to the present. Edited by Ron Crocombe and Marjorie Crocombe...

The Death of William Gooch: A History's Anthropology

Dening, Greg · 1995

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine and engaging social history of the astronomer aboard the Daedalus, written into history by the social historian, Greg Dening, author also of Mr. Bligh's Bad Language....

Repositioning the Missionary: Rewriting the Histories of Colonialism, Native Catholicism, and Indigeneity in Guam

Diaz, Vicente M. · 2010

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Honolulu, Hawaii, Center for Pacific Islands Studies in the School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing on...

Pacific Islands Portraits

Davidson, J.W. and Deryck Scarr, eds. · 1976

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Wellington, New Zealand, A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition softcover copy in trade paperback format, glossy pictorial card-stock wrappers, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight sh...

The Mustard Seed: From a French Mission to a Papuan Church

Delbos, Georges · 1985

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.53 | ¥12,136)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Big, tall trade paperback edition, glossy pictorial wraps. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean i...

Anuta: Polynesian Lifeways for the Twenty-First Century

Feinberg, Richard · 2004

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.38 | ¥4,088)

Long Grove, Illinois, Waveland Press, 2004. Second 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. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and...

Oral Tradition in Melanesia

Denoon, Donald and Roderic Lacey, eds. · 1981

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Waigani, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea , University of Papua New Guinea, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Good-looking, printed, illustrated covers, heavily sunned spine, u...

Death Rituals and Life in the Societies of the Kula Ring

Damong, Frederick H. and Roy Wagner, eds. · 1989

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Dekalb, Illinois , Northern Illinois Press, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Penciled notes and some underlining by the previous owner, a Pacific scholar himself, John Barke...

Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities and Youth: Psychological Perspectives

D'Augelli, Anthony R. and Charlotte J. Patterson, eds. · 2001

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the publisher's blurb, "Changes in biological processes, relationships, and community interactions influence the emergence of sexuality in all young people. The process is m...

Oral Tradition in Melanesia

Denoon, Donald and Roderic Lacey, eds. · 1981

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Port Moresby, University of Papua New Guinea, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Good-looking, printed, illustrated covers, lightly sunned spine, unfurled tips, else a clean, ...

From the Two Canoes: Oral Traditions of Rennell and Bellona

Elbert, Samuel L. and Torben Monberg · 1965

$33.60 (€30.48 | £25.43 | ¥5,365)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by one of the authors, being inscribed warmly by Torben Monberg to the previous owner, John Barker, and his wfe, Anne. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, a bi...

The Noodle Narratives: The Global Rise of the Industrial Food Into the Twenty-First Century

Errington, Frederick, Tatsuro Fujikura and Deborah Gewertz · 2015

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Berkeley, California, University of Californis Press, 2015. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine, exciting, engaged ethnography of the place of a ubiquitous product hiding in plain sight, Top Ramen, Maggi Noodles, available to the overworked rural poor and stressed out...