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Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands
by Douglas L Oliver  Publisher Comments This abridgment of Oliver's Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands is intended for college-level courses on precontact anthropology, history, economy, and politics of the Pacific, excluding Australia....
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Intimations of Infinity: The Mythopeia of the Iqwaye Counting System and Number
by Jadran Mimica Publisher Comments This is a remarkable work which captures the reader's imagination as only few books do. From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops a deeper and broader interpretation of the Iqwaye kinship system...
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Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the Jungle of New Guinea
by Tobias Schneebaum Publisher Comments <div>Tobias Schneebaum here tells the remarkable story of his four years among the Asmat of New Guinea, a jungle-dwelling people rumored to have killed Michael Rockefeller. Instead of ferocious cannibals, Schneebaum found a regal, gentle...
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Photography and Australia (Reaktion Books - Exposures)
by Helen Ennis Publisher Comments With its moving landscapes and famously independent cultural traditions, Australia is uniquely suited to having its national narrative told through visual documentation. Helen Ennis gathers here a selection of photographs that recount the story of...
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Micronesia Country Study Guide
by Global Investment & Publisher Comments Geography, history, people, language, culture, traditions, economy, government, politics, constitution, places to visit, info for travelers.Updated...
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The King and People of Fiji (Pasifika Library)
by Joseph Waterhouse Synopsis Reverend Joseph Waterhouse's work offers an excellent insight into the traditional Fijian way of life....
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Reluctant Indonesians
by Clinton Fernandes Publisher Comments Timely and provocative, this analysis challenges the orthodox views of the foreign policy establishment and its various supporters in the media by examining West Papua, Australia’s relationship with Indonesia, and Australian foreign policy in...
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Robert Louis Stevenson (03 Edition)
by Robinson Publisher Comments A varied and vivid selection of writings from Stevenson's six years in the islands of the Pacific, enhanced by insightful...
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Mission to Melanesia: Out of Bondage
by John Wrightson Publisher Comments Examining the mission established by the Anglican Church during the 1840s, this historical account offers insight into the dedication and humanity of those who contributed to its story. Recounting the calamitous events...
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From Muyuw to the Trobriands: Transformations along the Northern Side of the Kula Ring
by Frederick H Damon Book News Annotation Damon (anthropology, U. of Virginia) analyzes cultural relations in Papua, New Guinea. He applies structuralist ideas commonly used in studies relating to the expansion of the Western world-system, to the world-system of the Kula Ring of Pacific...
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Australian Photographers Collection #2: Australian Photographers Collection Volume 2
by Robert Imhoff Publisher Comments A showcase of some of the best work produced by Australian photographers as selected by their peers....
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Memories of War: Micronesians in the Pacific War
by Suzanne Falgout Publisher Comments Micronesians often liken the Pacific War to a typhoon, one that swept away their former lives and brought dramatic changes to their understandings of the world and their places in it. Yet Pacific War histories scarcely mention the islanders across whose...
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Pacific Classics, #2: My Samoan Chief
by Fay G Calkins
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The people from the horizon :an illustrated history of the Europeans among the South Sea Islanders
by Philip Snow Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-286) and index....
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Social Change in the Pacific Islands
by Albert B Robillard Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-499) and index....
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Tuturani :a political journey in the Pacific Islands
by Scott L Malcomson Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-267)....
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New Guinea, an island apart
by Neil Nightingale Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 143) and index....
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The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia (Kolowalu Books)
by P F Kluge Publisher Comments In 1967 the Peace Corps sent P. F. Kluge to paradise - or so the American possessions in Micronesia seemed. His assignment was as noble as it was adventurous: to help the people of those half-forgotten Pacific islands move from old to new, so that...
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Word; The Pen & the Pistol: Literature and Power in Tahiti (Suny Series, Sublime)
by Robert Nicole Publisher Comments The Word, The Pen, and the Pistol explores the relationships between history, power, knowledge, and certain cultural productions such as literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Borrowing from the theoretical works of Michel Foucault and Edward...
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Pacific Paradises Pacific Paradises
by Trevor Lummis Publisher Comments In Hawaii, a similar story unfolded. Discovered by Captain Cook in 1776, it was a larger centre of trade and commerce than Tahiti and its ultimate fate was a matter of greater international importance, involving Britain, America, France and Russia...
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