Oceania

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922737960Author Anne Pattel-GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877578656Author Stevan Eldred-GriggFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams)...

Malaita traces the history and culture of a Pacific island from the 19th to 21st centuries through over 600 images drawn from the archives of the British Museum and public and private photographic collections around the world. This book explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947522230Author Stevan Eldred-GriggFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877578519Author Erik OlssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 618gDimensions(mm)...

Why did the so-called "Cannibal Isles" of the Western Pacific fascinate Europeans for so long? Spanning three centuries-from Captain James Cook's death on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 to the end of World War II in 1945-this book considers the category of...

In 1961, John F. Kennedy referred to the Papuans as "living, as it were, in the Stone Age." For the most part, politicians and scholars have since learned not to call people "primitive," but when it comes to the Papuans, the Stone-Age stain persists and...

By adopting ideas like "development," members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative or a community member. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become...

By adopting ideas like "development," members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative or a community member. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become...

Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed or desecrated all of their temples and most of their god-images. In the aftermath of the explosive...

In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995131880Author Peter LinehamFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams) 896g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927322314Author John PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 398g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995113527Author Margaret TennantFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams) 1180g

Experience the beautiful colors and exotic flavors that help define Hawaii as paradise. Luscious postcards from the early 20th century draw readers through alluring days of Hawaiis history as a booming tourist, agricultural, and, most importantly,...

In 1961, John F. Kennedy referred to the Papuans as "living, as it were, in the Stone Age." For the most part, politicians and scholars have since learned not to call people "primitive," but when it comes to the Papuans, the Stone-Age stain persists and...

Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime...

Tangatatau Rockshelter on Mangaia Island in the Southern Cook Islands, excavated by a multidisciplinary team in 1989-1991, produced one of the richest stratigraphic sequences of artifacts, faunal assemblages, and archaeobotanical materials in Eastern...

Hawaiian Antiquities (1898) is an ethnography by David Malo. Originally published in 1838, Hawaiian Antiquities, or Moolelo Hawaii, was updated through the end of Malo's life and later translated into English by Nathaniel Bright Emerson, a leading...

Opened in 1873, in buildings constructed by Charles II to house retired sailors, the Royal Naval College was founded with the aim of providing officers with 'the highest possible scientific instruction in all branches of study bearing upon their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062421630Author Author and Historian Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 748g

The intense rivalry in battleship building that took place between Britain and Germany in the run up to the First World War is seen by many as the most totemic of all armaments races. Blamed by numerous commentators during the inter-war years as a major...

The South Seas in the Modern World (1942) surveys the economic, social, educational and strategic problems facing the islands of the Pacific dependencies on the eve of the Second World War. The ways of living that met the needs of the islanders had been...

In the high mountains and jungles of the northern Philippines lived a quarter of a million people, Malayan, Indonesian and Pygmy. These so-called 'non-Christians', differing widely in life and custom, were little touched by Western-style culture and...