Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy

Keesing, Roger M. · 1992

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1992. 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. From the personal library of a not...

The Pacification of Melanesia, A.S. A.O. Monograph No. 7

Rodman, Margaret; Cooper, Matthew · 1983

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Lanham, Maryland, University Press Of America, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Another fine addition to the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Monograph Series, this being Volume 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but comp...

Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era

Di Leonardo, Micaela · 1991

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Softcover format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and bright internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear, though moderate penned and penciled, ticked ...

Making Waves: A History of Feminism in Western Society

LeGates, Marlene · 1996

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Toronto, Canada, Copp Clark Professional, 1996. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A well researched survey of gender studies and feminist movements in American and Commonwealth countries, stretching from Christendom to the 1970s. Accessible and scholarly. Unfurled tips, ti...

Daughters of the Dreaming

Bell, Diane · 1985

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Sydney, New South Wales, McPhee Gribble / George Allen & Unwin, 1985. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of front cover and text-block, a bit of fore-edge wear to rear panel, with neither underlining nor ...

Women Writing Culture

Behar, Ruth and Deborah Gordon, eds. · 1995

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1995. Third Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy of a stated Third Printing of the First Paper Edition. Minor wear of covers and text-block. From the personal library of a...

Siblingship in Oceania: Studies in the Meaning of Kin Relations

Mac Marshall, Editor · 1983

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America, in association with the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 1983. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine addition to the series, Pacific Islands Monograph Series, being No. 8. Sturdy, still t...

Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction

Wassmann, Jurg, ed. · 1998

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Oxford, England, Berg Books, 1998. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. One of the finest anthropological readers on "local," ethnographically specific reactions to missionization and colonization in the insular Pacific, including the Solomon Islands, Papua ...

Orokaiva Magic

F.E. Williams · 1969

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

Oxford, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1969. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean but for previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper and faint residue of some penciled nota...

The Pacific Theater: Island Representations of World War II

White, Geoffrey M. and Lamont Lindstrom, eds. · 1989

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Honolulu, Hawaii, Center for Pacific Island Studies, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Pacific Islands Monograph Series, #8. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked b...

Unexplored New Guinea: A Record of the Travels, Adventures, and Experiences of a Resident Magistrate Amongst the Head-Hunting Savages and Cannibals of the Unexplored Interior of New Guinea

Beaver, Wilfred · 1920

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1920. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A serviceable reference copy of one of my personal favorite monographs about the Papuan region and the transition from British New Guinea to Australian Papua and N...

Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii

Grimshaw, Patricia · 1989

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Justly considered a fine work of social history about the coming of Christianity and Christian missionaries (and their spouses) to the insular Pacific. Fine-looking, structur...

Tarzan Was an Eco-Tourist:... And Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure

Vivanco, Luis A. and Robert J. Gordon · 2009

$15.20 (€13.79 | £11.51 | ¥2,427)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2009. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the publisher's blurb, "Tarzan is still an icon of adventure, because like all adventurers, his actions have universal qualities: doing something previously untried, revealing the prev...

Gender and Kinship: Essays Toward a Unified Analysis

Collier, Jane Fishburne and Sylvia Junko Yanagisako, eds. · 1992

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1992. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An exceedingly influential, compelling reader in kinship and gender, anthropology and society, dedicated to a leading scholar, Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, who had passed...

Mountain Papuans: Historical and Comparative Perspectives from New Guinea Fringe Highlands Societies

Weiner, James F. · 1990

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A fine survey of the Mountain Papuans of Papua New Guinea, edited by James F. Weiner and with contributions by him, Andrew Strathern, Roy Wagner, Charles M. Langlas and James F. We...

Virtualism, Governance and Practice: Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation

Carrier, James G. and Paige West, eds. · 2009

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology. James G. Carrier and Paige West have edited a fine reader in ecology and environmental protection...

Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

West, Paige · 2016

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Columbia University Press, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures series. Sturdy softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Prev...

Compensation for Resource Development in Papua New Guinea

Toft, Susan, ed. · 1997

$21.60 (€19.60 | £16.35 | ¥3,449)

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Law Reform Commission, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea Monograph No. 6, published jointly with the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National Univers...

Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy and Carolyn Fishel Sargent, eds. · 1999

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A big, fat, accessible, juicy, disturbing, evocative reader in the cultural politics of motherhood and reproduction. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled...

Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis

Yanagisako, Sylvia and Carol Delaney, eds. · 1995

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Routledge, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. My second favorite in gender studies. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. A fine, then edge-cutti...