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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

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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 g archaeologist of Oceania, Anahulu seeks out the traces of this transformation in a typical local center of the kingdom founded by Kamehameha: the Anahulu river valley of northwestern Oahu. Volume 2, by Patrick V. Kirch, examines the material record of changes in local social organization, economy and production, population, and domestic settlement arrangements. ...Show more

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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 g archaeologist of Oceania, Anahulu seeks out the traces of this transformation in a typical local center of the kingdom founded by Kamehameha: the Anahulu river valley of northwestern Oahu. Volume I shows the surprising effects of the encounter with the imperial forces of commerce and Christianity—the distinctive ways the Hawaiian people culturally organized the experience, from the structure of the kingdom to the daily life of ordinary people. Volume II examines the material record of changes in local social organization, economy and production, population, and domestic settlement arrangements. ...Show more

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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

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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

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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.

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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 nd the scattered fragments of land they found and settled. ... ...Show more

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Lighting Meets the West Wind - The Malaita Massacre by Roger M. Keesing; Peter Corris

$35.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: good-very good

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Working in Hawaii - A Labor History by Edward D. Beechert

$25.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

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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

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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 des scientists, Mead's evidence has long been a crucial negative instance, an apparent proof of the sovereignty of culture over biology. ...Show more

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