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Nau 'a'ai no te mau ta'amotu - Legendes des archipels - Legends of the Archipelagos
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Anahulu - The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii Volume Two: The Archaeology of History by Patrick Vinton Kirch; Marshall D. Sahlins
$55.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent social anthropologist, and Patrick V. Kirch, a leadin ...Show more
Anahulu - The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii Volume One- Historical Ethnography by Patrick Vinton Kirch; Marshall D. Sahlins
$55.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent social anthropologist, and Patrick V. Kirch, a leadin ...Show more
Would a Good Man Die? - Nuie Island, New Zealand and the Late Mr Larsen by Dick Scott
$30.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Among the Savages of the South Seas - Memoirs of Micronesia, 1862-1868 by Alfred Tetens; Florence M. Spoehr (Translator)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Broken Waves: A History of the Fiji Islands in the Twentieth Century by Brij V Lal
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Series: Pacific Island Monographs Series, No 11 | Reading Level: very good
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Developments in Polynesian Ethnology by Alan Howard and Robert Borofsky (eds)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
This title assesses the current state of anthropological research in Polynesia through a series of original essays on prehistory, social organisation, socialisation, mana and tapu, chieftainship, art, and early contact. The essays, taken together, offer a broad understanding of Polynesian societies.
The Path of the Ocean - Traditional Poetry of Polynesia by Marjorie Sinclair (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
SALE PRICE $21.50 The poems in this anthology were composed by a race of seafarers and island dwellers who crossed thousands of miles of ocean in frail vessels, guiding themselves by the stars and the feel of wave and wind. The poems reflect the ways in which they saw their universe of sea and sky a ...Show more
Lighting Meets the West Wind - The Malaita Massacre by Roger M. Keesing; Peter Corris
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: good-very good
Working in Hawaii - A Labor History by Edward D. Beechert
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
The Polynesian Journal of Captain Henry Byam Martin, R.N - In Command of H.M.S. Grampus-50 Guns at Hawaii and on Station in Tahiti and the Society Islands, August 1846 to August 1847 by Henry Byam Martin
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Margaret Mead and Samoa - The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth by Derek Freeman
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very 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 ...Show more