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House-girls Remember: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu by Margaret Rodman Publisher Comments Of all the Pacific nations only Tonga has retained a complete and lasting political independence. Find out how the shrewd, determined King of Tonga, Tupou I, teamed up with Wesleyan missionary and opportunist Shirley Baker to bring this about.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $12.42 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam by Robert F Rogers Publisher Comments Ferdinand Magellan's fateful landfall on Guam, the first inhabited Pacific island known to Europeans, ushered in the age of European exploration in the Pacific and led inexorably to foreign domination of every traditional island society throughout... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti by Anne Salmond Publisher Comments Aphrodite's Island is a bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status that has figured so powerfully in European imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of "savages." In this... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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House-Girls Remember: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu by Margaret Rodman Publisher Comments Giving voice to the women who worked as maids--known as "house-girls" in the Pacific islands of Vanuatu--is the goal of this innovative work. The stories the women tell resonate with the experiences of domestic workers around the world; their histories... (read more) List Price $47.00 Your price: $41.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire by Nicholas Thomas Review "Enjoyably readable."—G.E. Marcus, Choice Anne... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Hardcover
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Social Change in Melanesia: Development and History by Paul Sillitoe Publisher Comments An account of social change in Melanesia covering the colonial period and the post-colonial era.... (read more) List Price $52.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace Publisher Comments Wallace's The Malay Archipelago is recognized as the classic work on the flora, fauna, and peoples of the area which is now called Indonesia. Based largely on field journals Wallace kept during the eight years he spent in Malaysia and Indonesia between... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nafanua: Loss and Redemption in the Samoan Rain Forest by Paul Alan Cox Book News Annotation Botanist Cox became involved with a remote Samoan village at the edge of a rain forest where he went to pursue his study of rain-forest remedies (work done in conjunction with both native healers and the US National Cancer Institute). The title refers... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pacific Islands: Politics, Economics, & International Relations by Teo Fairbairn Publisher Comments This introduction to the contemporary Pacific, intended for those in government, business, and academia, provides a succinct account of the complex trends, issues, and developments affecting the islands and offers sketches of individual nations and... (read more) Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronisla Malinowski List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Islands of history by Marshall Sahlins Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Remaking Micronesia: Discourses Over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944-1982 by David L Hanlon List Price $58.25 Your price: $37.50 Used - Hardcover
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Nafanua Saving the Samoan Rain Forest by Paul Alan Cox List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tuturani :a political journey in the Pacific Islands by Scott L Malcomson Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-267).... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Social Change in the Pacific Islands by Albert B Robillard Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-499) and index.... (read more) Your price: $5.98 Used - Hardcover
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Organic Act of Guam and Related Feeral Laws Affecting the Governmental Structure of Guam Through June 11, 2001 by Charles H Troutman Synopsis The Organic Act of Guam and related federal laws provide the framework for the government of Guam. This publication presents the fundamental laws creating the Territory of Guam and its government.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shirley Baker and the King of Tonga (Pasifika Library) by Noel Rutherford Publisher Comments Of all the Pacific nations only Tonga has retained a complete and lasting political independence. Find out how the shrewd, determined King of Tonga, Tupou I, teamed up with Wesleyan missionary and opportunist Shirley Baker to bring this about.... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea: the Telling of Difference by Deborah B Gewertz Publisher Comments Class has become a feature of life in Papua New Guinea, evident in both "traditional" and "modern" settings. This book examines the emergence of class differences and its social and cultural ramifications in Wewak, capital of the East Sepik Province. It... (read more) List Price $98.95 Your price: $45.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History by Andrew Strathern Publisher Comments Arrow Talk makes a significant contribution to the understanding of Melanesian culture and contemporary sociopolitical issues in Papua New Guinea. In a postmodern era in which culture has been dismissed by many anthropologists as a reification, this book... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nuclear Nativity: Rituals of Renewal and Empowerment in the Marshall Islands by Marshall Carucci Synopsis The leading authority on the lifeways of the Enewetak people explores the rituals, customs, and meanings of the Kurijmoj festival. Illuminating the empowering aspects of rituals involved in feasts, competitive games, speeches, dances, songs of... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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