Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Unearthing the Polynesian Past: Explorations and Adventures of an Island Archaeologist

Kirch, Patrick Vinton · 2015

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i Press, 2015. 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. Volume contains scho...

Shooting the Sun: Ritual and Meaning in West Sepik

Juillerat, Bernard · 1992

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket. Bound simply in black cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lette...

Transactions and Creations: Property Debates and the Stimulus of Melanesia

Hirsch, Eric and Marilyn Strathern, eds. · 2004

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Berghahn Books, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the glossy pictorial covers, bright interior, unmarked. Contributions by the two editors, Eric Hirsch and Marilyn Strathern, ...

Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Malinowski, Bronislaw · 1984

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Prospect Heights, Illinois, Waveland Press, 1984. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of the 1984 reprint of the 1961 edition of this classic in Melanesianist ethnology and ethnography, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and c...

Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story

Behar, Ruth · 1993

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Boston, Massachusetts, Beacon Press, 1993. Third Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Laid in is a fetching tribute to the teacher from a student of the former owner, the ethnograph extrao...

Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer

Evans-Pritchard, E.E. · 1969

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1969. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Produced from sheets from the true First Fine frontis photograph in black-and-white and with numerous black-and-white plates, augmented with illustrations in-text. This is the ...

Seven Tribes of British Central Africa

Colson, Elizabeth and Max Gluckman · 1961

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Manchester, England, Published for the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute by the Manchester University Press, 1961. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound attractively...

Home in the Islands: Housing and Social Change in the Pacific

Rensel, Jan and Margaret Rodman, eds. · 1997

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Stated First Edition. Contributions to the issue of housing and social change ...

Harvests, Feasts, and Graves: Postcultural Consciousness in Contemporary Papua New Guinea

Schram, Ryan · 2018

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the glossy pictorial covers, bright interior, unmarked. According to the publisher, Ryan Schram "explores...

Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea

Herdt, Gilbert H., ed. · 1982

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.38 | ¥4,088)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, and with a fine Introduction by an eminent Pacific scholar and ethnographer, Roger M. Keesing.A then definitive survey of ethnographic exemplars...

Rethinking Women's Roles: Perspectives from the Pacific

O'Brien, Denise and Sharon W. Tiffany, eds. · 1984

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1984. 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 ...

Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings

Salmond, Anne · 1976

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Wellington, New Zealand, A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1976. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, lightly worn at spine head and foot. ...

Thomas Crosby and the Tsimshian: Small Shoes for Feet Too Large

Bolt, Clarence · 1992

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

Vancouver, British Columbia, University of British Columbia Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and accessible biography of the arrival, life and work of the Methodist Missionary in 1874 to the Northwest Coast and encounters with Tsimshian an...

Christianity in Oceania

Ross, Kenneth R., Katalina Tahaafe-Wiliams and Todd M. Johnson, eds. · 2021

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Edinburgh, Scotland, Edinburgh University Press, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Another fine contribution to the Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity series. This exemplar is a fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wea...

Linguistic Ecology: Language Change and Linguistic Imperialism in the Pacific Region

Muhlhausler, Peter · 1996

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, Routledge, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Peter Muhlhausler has provided a fine and accessible survey o flinguistics in the insular Pacific in the ...

Religions of Melanesia: A Bibliographic Survey

Trompf, Garry W. · 2006

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Massive survey of religions, denominations, missions and missionaries throughout Melanesia (New Guinea, Hebrides, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands), covering ethnology, history, and ethnograp...

Grass

Cooper, Merian C. · 1925

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Second Printing, from April of 1925, the true First Edition having come out the month prior. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in...

New Guinea People in Business and Industry: New Guinea Research Bulletin #20

Crocombe, Ronald, ed. · 1974

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Canberra, A.C.T. / Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, 1974. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking exemplar of a 1974 reprint of the very first set of papers presented to the Waigani Seminar, h...

Pacific Tapa

Neich, Roger and Mick Pendergrast · 2004

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, virtually gift-quality condition inside and out, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shel...

Indians of the Pacific Northwest

Ruby, Robert H. and John A. Brown · 1982

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, though sunned to...