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Hardcover. The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a concept of mental illness. They classified madness according to social behavior, not mental pathology.. Series: Social Identities. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; GTB; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857450944
ISBN
9780857450944
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.45

Hardback. Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. Num Pages: 312 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845455613
ISBN
9781845455613
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.07

Paperback. Hawaiians pride themselves on being the most generous hosts in the Pacific. Find out what Aloha really means here, especially on the back roads, the less traveled parts of each island, in Backroads & Byways Hawaii. Unique itineraries, complete with lodging and dining suggestions, will make your trip truly unforgettable. Series: Backroads & Byways. Num Pages: 256 pages, 100+ Color photographs throughout. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; WTH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781581571844
ISBN
9781581571844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, 32 b/w & 6 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; ANF; ASDX; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 226 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837636697
ISBN
9783837636697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.57
€ 41.88

Hardback. In the middle decades of the 20th century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. This study explains how Filipinos, Japanese, Portuguese, and others overcame racial divisions and mobilized a mass working-class movement. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illustrations, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JHBL; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231135344
ISBN
9780231135344
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.84
€ 80.20

Hardcover. This is an ethnographic study of kinship and the nature and behaviour of ownership amongst the much-studied Sepik River Iatmul people. Written from the viewpoint of a Melanesian scholar, this book seeks to re-think anthropology's central assumptions about social relations. Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs. Num Pages: 220 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1MB; 1MKLP; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780197264454
ISBN
9780197264454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.42

Paperback. Deals with fundamental practices of value creation on Gawa, a small island off the southeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the inhabitants of which participate in the long-distance kula shell exchange ring. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 line drawings, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822312703
ISBN
9780822312703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1MK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Demeter Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772580044
ISBN
9781772580044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.27

Paperback. Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. This title reveals that there was gain as well as loss, survival as well as suffering, and invention as well as exploitation. Num Pages: 356 pages, 50 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; 3JH; HBJM; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 231 x 26. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300180565
ISBN
9780300180565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.90

Paperback. Series: Stackpole Military Photo Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, 300 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 1MKPH; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 278 x 12. Weight in Grams: 760.
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811718387
ISBN
9780811718387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 27.51

Hardcover. Series: Anthropology Series. Num Pages: 360 pages, 11 colour, 201 black and white photographs, 36 line drawings, maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; HDD; JHMP; TGXT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 224 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1529.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780890968703
ISBN
9780890968703
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.62

Paperback. Challenging the dominant view of Hawai'i as a "melting pot paradise" - a place of ethnic tolerance and equality - this title examines how ethnic inequality is structured and maintained in island society. It finds that ethnicity, not race or class, signifies difference for Hawai'i's people and therefore structures their social relations. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592137565
ISBN
9781592137565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. Looks at the process from which coffee is grown, gathered, sorted, shipped, and served from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to coffee shops in places as far apart as New York, Australia, and London. Num Pages: 360 pages, 35 photographs, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHM; KNDF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1.11.2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822351504
ISBN
9780822351504
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.27

Paperback. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 b&w photographs and 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; HBJM; JFFJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231178792
ISBN
9780231178792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.20

Paperback. The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-first Century. 312 pages, 25 illustrations. Presents an ethnographic examination of the social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. This book focuses on the area that was the site of a biodiversity conservation project. It demonstrates the capacity of ethnography to illuminate the relationship between trans-national processes and individual lives. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1MKLP; GTB; JHMP; RNK. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 22. Weight: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822337492
ISBN
9780822337492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.30

Hardback. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 b&w photographs and 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; HBJM; JFFJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231178785
ISBN
9780231178785
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.84
€ 78.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; WNW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Trinity University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595341303
ISBN
9781595341303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.37

Hardback. Rituals have always been a focus of ethnographies of Melanesia, providing a ground for important theorizing in anthropology. This book examines the role of females in Papua New Guinea male rituals. It builds on ethnographies that show how female kin had roles in male rituals that had previously gone unseen. Editor(s): Bonnemere, Pascale. Series: Social Anthropology in Oceania. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812237894
ISBN
9780812237894
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.53

Paperback. Offers a perspective on the colonial stereotype of the exotic Pacific island woman, tracing the evolution of female primitivism from Western antiquity to twentieth-century Hollywood. This book includes 37 illustrations of Pacific women from early etchings by shipboard artists. Series: McLellan Endowed Series. Num Pages: 37 illus. BIC Classification: 1MK; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987651
ISBN
9780295987651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.32

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 1MK; 1QSPS; WNCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 177 x 20. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Otago University Press New Zealand
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781877578045
ISBN
9781877578045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.84

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