Fiji and the Fijians Volume I - The Islands and their Inhabitants by Thomas Williams

$20.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

The Material Culture of the Cook Islands Aitutaki by Te Rangi Hiroa

$140.00 NZD

Category: rare & collectable | Series: Memoirs of the Board of Maori Ethnological Research Volume I | Reading Level: very good

To Live Among the Stars. Christian origins in Oceania by John Garrett

$25.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

New Zealand and the Pacific by Roderic Alley

$16.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Series: A\Replica Edition Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Margaret Mead and Samoa - The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth by Derek Freeman

$12.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Series: Pelican Ser. | Reading Level: good

In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her stunning discovery of a culture in which the storm and stress of adolescence didn't exist. The resulting book, Coming of Age in Samoa has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time. Within the nature-nurture controversy that still divi des scientists, Mead's evidence has long been a crucial negative instance, an apparent proof of the sovereignty of culture over biology. ...Show more

The Voyaging Stars Secrets of the Pacific Island Navigators by David Lewis

$10.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: good

Persona Non Grata: Breaking the Bond - Fiji and New Zealand 2004-2007 by Michael Green

$15.00 NZD

Category: Pacific

This is the account by (the late) Michael Green, NZ High Commissioner in Fiji, of his years and role in Fiji until the surprising announcement of his change in diplomatic status to "Persona Non Grata" (unwelcome person) in 2007, a status that prevented any further diplomatic activities or role for him i n that country. On his return to New Zealand Michael Green felt compelled to write an account of his time in these islands with which New Zealand, along with Australia and the United Kingdom, has had very close links and considerable influence over a long period. His tour of duty coincided with internal political shifts in Fiji's politics that would lead to the 2006 military coup that established Commodore Frank Bainimarama as unelected leader/interim president of these Pacific islands - a position he still holds six years on. New Zealand has since this time had to watch events unfold from a distance, having taken the necessary stance of severing diplomatic relations with Fiji. Long-supplied aid, trade, and most importantly the provision of educational expertise - always New Zealand's greatest contribution to those islands - has since ceased, and with the now lengthy incumbency of Frank Bainimarama as Fiji's military and political leader, New Zealand can but look on in the hope that democratic politics will eventually return to Fijian people. ...Show more

Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century by K R Howe, Robert C Kiste and Brij V. Lal (eds)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

Pitcairn - Paradise Lost: Uncovering the Dark Secrets of a South Pacific Fantasy Island by Kathy Marks

$20.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

Pitcairn Island where Fletcher Christian's descendants live, was until recently a rarely visited English-run Polynesian outpost perched in the South Pacific; a tropical paradise. But in 1999, British police, alerted by unsettling reports of a rape, descended on the island. Their investigation developed into a major inquiry that revealed that Pitcairn was the site of widespread and horrific sexual abuse instigated by the island men on girls as young as twelve. Scarcely a man on the island was untainted by the allegations, and almost none of the women had escaped, though most residents feigned ignorance, even when their own daughters were abused. Abusers included the magistrates and police officers as well as brothers and uncles. Few of the victims were able to leave the island; those who did never went back. Kathy Marks was one of a handful of journalists permitted to live on the island while she reported on the ensuing trial and witnessed Pitcairn's domestic workings first hand. In this riveting account, she documents a society gone badly astray, leaving lives shattered, codes broken and a paradise truly lost. ...Show more

The Future of Tokelau: Decolonising Agendas, 1975-2006 by Judith Huntsman

$30.00 NZD

Category: Pacific

The Future of Tokelau is a sequel to Judith Huntsman and Antony Hooper's Tokelau: A Historical Ethnography (1997), and follows the history of that small Pacific nation from the 1970s up to the recent referendum in which Tokelauans decisively voted against independence. This is an extraordinary story - a dramatic narrative - sometimes taking place under the palm trees of far-away Tokelau, sometimes in the bland offices of New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, sometimes in the monumental UN building in New York. Officials and politicians and Tokelau elders all play their role and the repeated clash of cultures leads to comic, bizarre and often disturbing outcomes. While this is a superbly researched study of the politics of a small state in a modern world, it is also an illuminating picture of MFAT, its operations and relationships, and a brilliant critique of the United Nations and the way it conducts its affairs. Published August 2007. ...Show more

The Contented Botanist. Letters of W. H. Harvey about Australia and the Pacific by Sophie C. Ducker

$40.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good

Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters by Vanessa Smith

$20.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire | Reading Level: very good

When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the archive of early contact in Oceania against European tr aditions of thinking about intimacy and exchange, Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that led Bougainville and other European voyagers to believe that the first word they heard in the Pacific was the word for friend. Her book encompasses forty years of encounters from the arrival of the Dolphin in Tahiti in June 1767, through Cook's and Bligh's voyages, to early missionary and beachcomber settlement in the Marquesas. It unpacks both the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century European, and particularly British, explorations of Oceania. ...Show more