Structure, Verses, Agency Books

The Health of Women in Papua New Guinea

Gillett, Joy E. · 1991

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guin, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. I've cited it a million times. Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research Monograph #9, and a rightful, still relevant, s...

The Health of Women in Papua New Guinea

Gillett, Joy E. · 1991

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guin, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, 1991. Second Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. I've cited it a million times. Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research Monograph #9, and a rightful, still relevant, ...

Hagen Saga: The Story of Father William Ross, First American Missionary to Papua New Guinea

Mennis, Mary R. · 1982

$21.60 (€19.60 | £16.35 | ¥3,449)

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea , Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being no additional copies available of this, the true First Edition of a readable, compelling account of Christian ...

Our Time But Not Our Place: Voices of Expatriate Women in Papua New Guinea

Bourke, Myra, Susan Holzknecht, Kathy Kituai and Linda Roach · 1993

$13.60 (€12.34 | £10.29 | ¥2,172)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. From the personal library o...

The Adelphi, Volume II, No. 8, January 1925

Murry, John Middleton, ed. · 1925

$18.40 (€16.69 | £13.93 | ¥2,938)

London, England, Loxley Brothers, Ltd., 1925. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Features period advertisements, publisher's other holdings. Edited by John Middleton Murry and with contr...

From Rhetoric to Reality: Papua New Guinea's Eight Point Plan and National Goals After a Decade

King, Peter, Wendy Lee, and Vincent Warakai, eds. · 1985

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,854)

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, University of Papua New Guinea, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine exemplar of the Fifteenth Waigani Seminar. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, less to text-block, but with neither un...

Women of the Place: Kastom, Colonialism, and Gender in Vanuatu

Jolly, Margaret · 1994

$44.80 (€40.65 | £33.91 | ¥7,154)

Switzerland, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A justifiable classic in Melanesian ethnography especially of gender relations and social change. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright int...

Kwaio Religion: The Living and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society; 'Elota's Story: The Life and Times of a Solomon Islands Big Man

Keesing, Roger M. · 1982

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, , . First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The first title (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982) is as fine an ethnography of religion and social change in Melanesia as can be found, and the second title (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 198...

Tamate, a King: James Chalmers in New Guinea 1877-1901

Langmore, Diane · 1974

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The definitive biography of James Chalmers ("Tamate"), martyred at the club-conk by the Goaribari in what was then Western Division of what is now Papua New Gui...

Transactions and Creations: Property Debates and the Stimulus of Melanesia

Hirsch, Eric and Marilyn Strathern, eds. · 2004

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Relevant, accessible survey of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Cultural Property Rights (CPR) debates mostly set in Melanesia. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of co...

Behind the Ranges: Patrolling in New Guinea

Sinclair, J.P. · 1966

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Victoria, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, ill...

Give and Take: Exchange in Wola Society

Sillitoe, Paul · 1979

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australian National University, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarcely available to the trade in the U.S., a Very Good condition copy bound in brown cloth over boards, moderately worn and rubbed paper dust wrappers, previous owner's...

Land between Two Laws: Early European Land Acquisitions in New Guinea.

Sack, Peter G. · 1973

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Canberra, A.C.T., Australian National University, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade in this state, being a difficult-to-find social history of land acquisition and theft by the German colonial administrations throughout German Ne...

Grass-Clearing Man: A Factional Ethnography of Life in the New Guinea Highlands

Sillitoe, Paul and Jackie Sillitoe · 2009

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Long Grove, Illinois, Waveland Press, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An intriguing quasi-ethnography, "factional," exploring life in stateless, horticultural villages and cultures in the New Guinea Highlands. Sterling condition softcover copy, with un...

Hard Times on Kairiru Island: Poverty, Deveopment, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village

Smith, Michael French · 1994

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. One of my very favorite ethnographies of the insular Pacific. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very sli...

Business Development in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Finney, Ben R. · 1990

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Honolulu, Hawaii, East-West Center, 1990. Second Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. A fine paper published ...

The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World

Knauft, Bruce · 2005

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, McGraw-Hill, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a fine ethnography of social and cultural change in lowland Papua New Guinea by a well-respected ethnographer and writer. Deep, probing, accessible, and with ma...

Transaction and Meaning: Directions in the Anthropology of Exchange and Symbolic Behavior

Kapferer, Bruce, ed. · 1976

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Scattered underlinings in pen, else unmarked, clean and bright. From th...

Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development: Other Paths for Papua New Guinea

James, Paul, Vaso Nadarajah, Karen Haive and Victoria Stead · 2012

$21.60 (€19.60 | £16.35 | ¥3,449)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawai'i Press, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear, but moderate marginal tick-marks and underlining, dissipating. Big, fat, he...

Field Ethnography: A Manual for Doing Cultural Anthropology

Kutsche, Paul · 1998

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Upper Saddle RIver, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine little reader in cultural anthropology, not really a field research methods how-to, but a very gentle introduction to thinking qualitatively. Contributions by Paul Ku...