Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Anthropology in the High Valleys: Essays on the New Guinea Highlands in Honor of Kenneth E. Read

Langness, L.L. and Terence E. Hays, eds. · 1987

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Chandler and Sharp Publishers, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in this state (a stated First Edition) and condition. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for previous owner'...

The Marquesas Islands: Their Description and Early History, Second Edition

Thomson, Robert; Robert D. Craig, ed. · 1980

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Laie, Hawai'i, Institute of Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University, Laie, Hawai'i campus, 1980. Second Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A fine, well-edited and contextualized presentation of the life and work of Reverend Robert Thomson (1816-1851) set in the Marqu...

Natives and Exotics: World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific

Bennett, Judith A. · 2009

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Judith Bennett reveals how pre-war notions of a paradisiacal Pacific set up millions of Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, and Japanese for grave disappointment when the...

The Meaning of Whitemen: Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World

Bashkow, Ira · 2006

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and probing ethnography about how whites are viewed by blacks in Papua New Guinea, specifically in an Orokaiva village in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, based on fieldwork conducted sever...

Between Two Nations: The Indonesia--Papua New Guinea Border and West Papua Nationalism

May, R.J., ed. · 1986

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, Robert Brown & Associates , 1986. 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. Contributions by...

Police Motu: Iena Sivarai (Its Story)

Dutton, Tom · 1985

$46.40 (€42.10 | £35.12 | ¥7,409)

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, University of Papua New Guinea Press, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Foreword by S.A. Wurm, a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics about the culture, origins, spread and development of Police Motu throughout the southern and ...

An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia: Culture and Tradition

Sillitoe, Paul · 1998

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A really fine survey of Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Solomon Islands and the Torres Straits in terms of traditional culture and tradition, customs to economics, kinship to s...

To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plenitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain

Maschio, Thomas · 1994

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. First Edition. 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. Perfectly readable, usable co...

The National Land Development Taskforce Report: Land Administration, Land Dispute Settlement, and Customary Land Development

The National Research Institute · 1920

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, The National Research Institute, 192007. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The National Research Institute Monograph 39, uber-scarce in the trade. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and s...

Customary Law in Papua New Guinea: A Melanesian View Published by , 1983

Scaglion, Richard (editor) · 1983

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.53 | ¥12,136)

Waigani, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Only two additional copies available on-line currently. Monograph #2 in the Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea series. A then de...

The Situation of Children in Papua New Guinea

Townsend, Patricia · 1985

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Boroko, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Former price sticker to front cover. A report pre...

Social Analysis, Special Issue: Sorcery and Social Change in Melanesia

Zelenietz, Marty and Shirley Lindenbaum · 1981

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Adelaide, Australia, Social Change, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An important, influential, still relevant, often cited volume of Social Analysis, focused on social change and sorcery, religion and witchcraft, with contributions by Marty Zelenietz, ...

Law: The Old and the New: Aboriginal Women in Central Australia Speak out

Bell, Diane and Pam Ditton · 1980

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the senior author, inscribed warmly to the previous owner. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, a bit o...

Law and Order in a Changing Society

Morauta, Louise, ed. · 1986

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

The Australian National University, Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Papers from a conference sponsored by the Department of Political and Soc...

Globalisation, Human Rights and Labour Law in Pacific Asia

Woodiwiss, Anthony · 1998

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England, Cambridge University Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showin...

The Ethnography of Malinowski: The Trobriand Islands 1915-18

Young, Michael W., ed. · 1979

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Previous owner's inscription inside front flap. Nice range of classic, ironic black-and-white photographs ...

Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People

Rappaport, Roy A. · 1977

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1977. Ninth Printing. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Gender relations in a slash-and-burn horticulture society in Highlands New Guinea. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Orange printed...

Perceiving Women

Ardener, Shirley · 1975

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England, Malaby Press, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. A few underlines and marginal tick-marks, unobtrusive, red printed card stock wraps moderately worn but still brig...

Gender and Society in the New Guinea Highlands: An Anthropological Perspective on Antagonism Toward Women

Gelber, Marilyn G. · 1986

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Boulder & London, Westview Press, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An early, good, useful, relevant survey of "sexual antagonism" and "gender antagonism" and separation of the sexes in New Guinea Highlands cultures. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover...

Circulation in Population Movement: Substance and Concepts from the Melanesian Case

Chapman, Murray and R. Mansell Prothero, eds. · 1985

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

London, England, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little ...