Oceania
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Oceania
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442635920
- ISBN
- 9781442635920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.14
€ 31.99
€ 29.14
Hardback. Using plantation documents, missionary records, government documents, and oral histories, this book analyzes how the workers interacted with Hawaiian government structures and businesses, how US policies for colonial workers differed from those for citizens or foreigners, and how policies aided corporate and imperial interests. Series: Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 black and white photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JFSL3; JFSL4; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038297
- ISBN
- 9780252038297
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. Describes how, when and by whom Hoa Hakanai'a was collected. This work reconstructs the underlying Rapanui aesthetic and social structure that produced Hoa Hakanai'a, and which has been obscured by time and historic accident. Series: British Museum Research Publication. Num Pages: 76 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps. BIC Classification: 1MKPE; AFK; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 297 x 210 x 5. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- British Museum Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 76
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861591589
- ISBN
- 9780861591589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.14
€ 43.14
Hardback. In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's Porgeran highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of the extreme social conflict and environmental degradation brought on by commercial gold mining. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 296 pages, 39 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; HBJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822359791
- ISBN
- 9780822359791
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.14
€ 117.14
hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, over 250 colour & b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 270. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Didier Millet,Csi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789814385251
- ISBN
- 9789814385251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.20€ 53.49
€ 58.20
€ 53.49
Hardcover. When Captain Samuel Wallis became the first European to land at Tahiti in June 1767, he left three guinea hens, a pair of turkeys, and a garden planted with peas for the chiefess Purea. This title explores from both the European and Tahitian perspective the effects of 'ecological exchange' on the island from the mid-18th century onwards. Num Pages: 336 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPFT; HBJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824832810
- ISBN
- 9780824832810
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.32€ 48.83
€ 52.32
€ 48.83
Hardcover. Seeking an answer to why the event occurred the way that it did,The Polynesian Iconoclasm explores the 10 years in the early 19th century during which inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii & 15 related societies destroyed or desecrated their temples & god-images. In the aftermath, hundreds of architecturally innovative churches were constructed. Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 ills. BIC Classification: 1MKP; 3JH; HRAX; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782384137
- ISBN
- 9781782384137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.63
€ 157.63
Hardcover. Num Pages: 185 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; KCBM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621004301
- ISBN
- 9781621004301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.93€ 69.31
€ 98.93
€ 69.31
Paperback. Examines the cultural and personal experiences of chronic and acute pain sufferers in an account of everyday beliefs, values, and practices on the island of Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia. This title focuses on how pain is implicated in the fashioning of particular Yapese understandings of ethical subjectivity and right action. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKCF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520260580
- ISBN
- 9780520260580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.50
€ 38.99
€ 28.50
Paperback. This study describes the daily existence of the Baining people of Papua New Guinea, who present a challenge to anthropologists because of their apparent lack of a cultural or social structure; but Jane Fajans argues that the Baining define themselves by their own productive and reproductive work. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12 halftones, 1 map, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226234441
- ISBN
- 9780226234441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 31.19
€ 38.99
€ 31.19
Paperback. Offers a history of tourism and tourism policy development in Hawai'i from the 1960s to the twenty-first century. This book looks at the many changes in tourism since statehood (1959) and tourism's imprint on Hawai'i. It also examines state government policies and actions taken relative to the taxation of tourism, and tourism promotion. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824832438
- ISBN
- 9780824832438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.51
€ 33.99
€ 28.51
Paperback. What is creative in kinship? How are people connected to places? James Leach answers these questions by examining the making of people and the emergence of places in a particular context. He develops a powerful idea: the formulation of "creativity" as an ongoing and integral part of kinship as environmental engagement. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571816931
- ISBN
- 9781571816931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.85
€ 44.85
Paperback. This work establishes the means to identify the nearly 130 species of Hawaiian carabid beetles of the tribe Platynini, which constitutes a monophyletic radiation. This volume is the first of three books that will treat all of the native and introduced carabid species found in the Hawaiian islands. Series: Hawaiian carabidae (coleoptera). Num Pages: 504 pages, 287 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; PSAB; PSVT7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Univ of Hawaii Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824823566
- ISBN
- 9780824823566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.14€ 53.91
€ 58.14
€ 53.91
Hardcover. This text provides a theoretical experiment in anthropology and an analysis of myth and ritual in Papua New Guinea societies. Fashioning an anthropological method from psychoanalytic theories, it uncovers a discourse on sexuality, consumption, voice and subjectivity. Series: New Directions in Anthropological Writing S. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 colour photographs, 3 b&w photographs, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHMP; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299148607
- ISBN
- 9780299148607
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.14€ 53.91
€ 58.14
€ 53.91
Paperback. Strategies, tactics, decisions, personalities and controversies that turned America's audacious gamble in the South Pacific into its first successful offensive of WWII, written with the storytelling drive that made Hornfischer's first 2 books award winners and word-of-mouth favourites. An indispensable work of narrative history. Num Pages: 544 pages, 2 16-page b&w inserts, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MKLS; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 618. The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal. 544 pages, 2 16-page b&w inserts, 9 maps. Strategies, tactics, decisions, personalities and controversies that turned America's audacious gamble in the South Pacific into its first successful offensive of WWII, written with the storytelling drive that made Hornfischer's first 2 books award winners and word-of-mouth favourites. An indispensable work of narrative history. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MKLS; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWF. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 33. Weight: 618.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Edition
- 2.5.2012
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553385120
- ISBN
- 9780553385120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.29
€ 26.99
€ 23.29
Sheet map, folded. A comprehensive Pacific map, including a main map and 52 inset maps of the major parts of the region. Principal cities, towns, and villages are shown along with roads, topography, and population figures where available. Time zones for the Pacific and individual countries are also included. Num Pages: colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; WTRM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 145 x 2. Weight in Grams: 56.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Edition
- Second
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824831080
- ISBN
- 9780824831080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.24
€ 13.99
€ 13.24
Paperback. BIC Classification: 1MKLF; 1MKLV; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 203 x 20. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780767921992
- ISBN
- 9780767921992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.90
€ 15.99
€ 14.90
Paperback. An assessment of the legal and cultural effects of the arbitrary correlation of blood and race imposed by the US government on the indigenous peoples of Hawai'i. It demonstrates how blood quantum, a system originally intended to restore land to Native Hawaiians, has in fact become an extension of US imperial power in Hawai'i. Series: Narrating Native Histories. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; HBTQ; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340799
- ISBN
- 9780822340799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.31
€ 31.99
€ 29.31
paperback. First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 508 pages. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; 2AB; 3JH; DSB; HBTB; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 938.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 508
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138981966
- ISBN
- 9781138981966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.03
€ 28.03
Paperback. Focusing on the cultural meanings of whitemen in the Orokaiva society of Papua New Guinea, this book provides a fresh approach to understanding how race is symbolically constructed and why racial stereotypes endure in the face of counter evidence. It provides an analysis of whiteness and race in a non-Western society. Num Pages: 328 pages, 24 halftones, 2 maps, 4 figures, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Paperback Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226038919
- ISBN
- 9780226038919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 31.18
€ 38.99
€ 31.18