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Oceania

hardcover. Editor(s): Hoem, Ingjerd; Roalkvam, Sidsel. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Berghahn Books United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781571815583
ISBN
9781571815583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.61

paperback. Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 18 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
3rd ed.
SKU
V9780816674626
ISBN
9780816674626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardback. In many parts of the world the white manA" is perceived to be an instigator of globalization and an embodiment of modernity. However, so far anthropologists have paid little attention to the actual heterogeneity and complexity of whitenessA" in specific ethnographic contexts. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; HRQM; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845456740
ISBN
9781845456740
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.92

hardcover. Victim Healing and Truth Commissions Series: Springer Series in Transitional Justice. Num Pages: 193 pages, 5 colour illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMNT; 1MKLS; JMS; KCP; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 461.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer Switzerland
Edition
2015th Edition
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319124865
ISBN
9783319124865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. An ethnography that analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli 'passenger women', (women who accept money for sex), it explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418. Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society. 296 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables. An ethnography that analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli 'passenger women', (women who accept money for sex), it explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSJ1. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 17. Weight: 414.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520245600
ISBN
9780520245600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. An examination of the strategies used by outsiders to usurp Hawaiian lands and undermine indigenous Hawaiian culture. Drawing upon historical and contemporary examples, it investigates Captain Cook's journals, Hollywood films and commercialized hula, to show how they displace native culture. Series: Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian & Pacific Perspectives. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JFSL9; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Edition
KDenn
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847691401
ISBN
9780847691401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.57

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

€ 40.99
€ 31.92

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

€ 31.18

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

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

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

€ 27.99
€ 24.27

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

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

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

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

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

€ 101.06
€ 70.85

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

€ 161.99

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

€ 111.46

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

€ 44.29

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

€ 63.04

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
€ 28.79

Paperback. Kelly opens new questions about dialogue, colonial power, and changing conditions of political possibility by examining the connection between politics and sexual morality in the British colony of Fiji from 1929 to 1932. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLF; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226430317
ISBN
9780226430317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.39

Hardback. The first major publication on the art of the New Guinea Highlands, this extraordinary volume is destined to become the definitive resource on this little-known region. Editor(s): Friede, John; Hays, Terence E.; Hellmich, Ms Christina. Num Pages: 672 pages, 665. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; ACX; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 240. .
Publisher
Prestel
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783791350554
ISBN
9783791350554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.96
€ 101.66

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