Structure, Verses, Agency Books

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. First Edition. 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...

Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and the Media in Papua New Guinea

Foster, Robert J. · 2003

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 2003. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers and text-block, and with scattered pencil marks and underlining, else a perfectly readable, usable copy. Previous owner'...

Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and the Media in Papua New Guinea

Foster, Robert J. · 2002

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers and text-block, but with no highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Previous owner's inscription, ne...

New Guinea Research Bulletin Number 16. Papuan Entrepreneurs

Crocombe, R.G. et al.; Ron Crocombe, ed. · 1967

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Ron Crocombe edited a series of New Guinea Research Bulletins in the 1960s and 1970s. Stated First Edition copy, and with contrbuti...

Bravo for the Marshallese: Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World

Barker, Holly M. · 2012

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Australia, Cengage Learning, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Case Studies on Contemporary Social Issues series. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only ver...

Technical Training and Development in Papua 1894-1941

Austin, Tony · 1977

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, The Australian National University, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition, Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers beyond removal of former price sticker, less to text-block, but with neithe...

Gender, Christianity and Change in Vanuatu

Eriksen, Annelin · 2008

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,854)

Burlington, Vermont, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for penned inscription of former owner and her fine ink-stamp opposite. ...

Matupit: Land, Politics, and Change Among the Tolai of New Britain

Epstein, A.L. · 1969

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, Australian National University, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean interior, lightly toned endpapers, minimal rubbing to extremities but a seemingly mottle...

Dangerous Words: Language and Politics in the Pacific

Brenneis, Donald and Fred R. Myers, eds. · 1984

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Prospect Heights, Illinois, Waveland Press, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine primer in sociolinguistics and social and cultural change in the insular Pacific. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean interna...

Those Ragged Bloody Heroes: From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942

Brune, Peter · 1992

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Crows Nest, Australia, Allen & Unwin, 1992. 10th Printing. Softcover. . Stated Tenth Printing of the Second Edition, first in paperback. This fine social history provides new insight into the Strategic and Tactical significance of the Papuan Campaigns during World War Two. Ste...

On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation

Besnier, Niko · 2011

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Very slight wear to the upper tip of the first free endpaper, else with unfurled tips, tight binding, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. A fine ethnography of ...

Arts and Crafts of Hawaii, Volume V: Llothing

Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter H. Buck) · 1987

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Honolulu, Hawai, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1987. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Reprint Edition of an important book published originally in the 1950s. Peter H. Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa) was an acknowledged master/expert of all things Hawaii throughout...

Making History: Pukapukan and Anthropological Constructions of Knowledge

Borofsky, Robert · 1990

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Cambridge University Press, 1990. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Paperback Edition thus, a fine unravelling of an anthropological puzzle concerning a Polynesian island's social organization, a fine ethnography that clarifies...

Other Voices, Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks out on Homosexuality

Brown, Terry, ed. · 2006

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Church Publishing, 2006. 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. Glossy pictorial covers. From the publisher's blurb, ...

The Linguistic Position of South-Eastern Papua

Capell, A. · 1935

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

London, England, Department of Linguistics, University of London, 1935. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Unique in the trade, there being no copies available on-line currently. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the noted Australian linguist's Ph.D. d...

The Tales of Laupu: Ol Stori Bilong Laupu

Counts, Dorothy · 1982

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The tales of Laupu / Ol Stori Bilong Laupu, a fine-looking bilingual text in Tok Inglish / Tok Pisin, penned by the estimable ethnographer Do...

Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Haley, Nicole and Ronald J. May, eds. · 2007

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, Australian National University Press, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line currently. No. 3 in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Progr...

House-Girls Remember: Domestic Workers I Vanuatu

Rodman, Margaret, Daniela Kraemer, Lissant Bolton and Jean Tarisesei · 2007

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 2007. 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. Contributions by the f...

Women and Education in Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific

Wormald, Eileen and Anne Crossley, eds. · 1987

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Waigani, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, University of Papua New Guinea Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered. First and fina...

The Ethics of Development: Justice and the Distribution of Health Care

Stratigos, Susan and Philip J. Hughes, eds. · 1987

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Waigani, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, University of Papua New Guinea Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Papers from the Papua New Guinea 17th Waigani Seminar, with contributions by the two editors,Susan Stratigos and Philip J. Hughes, and by Ker...