Oceania
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Oceania
Paperback. This unique study of boy-inseminating rituals among the Sambia of New Guinea challenges our deepest assumptions about the role of culture in understanding homosexuality and gender-identity development. Num Pages: 401 pages, 2 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFC; JFSJ; JFSK2; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 401
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226327495
- ISBN
- 9780226327495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 31.01
€ 38.99
€ 31.01
Paperback. In coastal areas, fishermen and swimmers also look to Jizo, one of the Buddhist deities in Japan for protection. In response to numerous drownings, Jizo statues were erected near dangerous fishing and swimming sites. This book tells the story of a group of men who raised these statues as a service to their communities. Series: A Latitude 20 Book. Num Pages: 184 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1MKPH; HBJF; HBLW; HBTM; HRE; HRLB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824831585
- ISBN
- 9780824831585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.46
€ 29.99
€ 25.46
Hardcover. Num Pages: 648 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKCU; HBJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1014.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824834814
- ISBN
- 9780824834814
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.51€ 62.08
€ 67.51
€ 62.08
Paperback. Analyzing the three Japanese attempts to retake the island in the face of ferocious American resistance, this book shows how the battle was won and lost, and how it affected the outcome of the Pacific War as a whole. Illustrator(s): Dennis, Peter. Series: Campaign. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1MKLS; 3JJH; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 249 x 8. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472806932
- ISBN
- 9781472806932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.00
€ 26.99
€ 22.00
Hardcover. What gives artefacts their power and beauty? This ethnographic study of the decorated long yams made by the Nyamikum Abelam in Papua New Guinea examines how these artefacts acquire their specific properties through processes that mobilise and recruit diverse entities, substances and domains. Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement. Num Pages: 376 pages, 23 figs & ills, 10 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFCD; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857457332
- ISBN
- 9780857457332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.65
€ 169.65
Board book.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Our World of Books United States
- Number of pages
- 20
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602190078
- ISBN
- 9781602190078
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 11.06
€ 11.06
Paperback. A work about passion, advocacy, and the willingness of parents to 'go against the grain'. It tells about Hawai'i professionals choosing public education for their children in a state that adheres to a commonly held belief that 'public schools are failing and private schools are succeeding'. Num Pages: 352 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824833398
- ISBN
- 9780824833398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.34
€ 19.99
€ 18.34
Hardcover. Covers the evolution of accounting, financial reporting and related institutions for major economies in the world in a comparable way. This title considers six nations from Asia and Oceania, including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. Editor(s): Previts, Gary J.; Walton, Peter; Wolnizer, Peter. Series Editor(s): Previts, Gary J. Series: Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought. Num Pages: 205 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1MK; KFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857248138
- ISBN
- 9780857248138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.62
€ 187.62
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
Hardcover. Editor(s): Besnier, Niko. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824838829
- ISBN
- 9780824838829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.66€ 69.26
€ 75.66
€ 69.26
Paperback. Illuminates the various ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized, shaping subjective experiences common to entire cultural regions, and beyond. Through comparison of the life ways of Melanesia and Amazonia, this work expands the study of gender and the comparative method in anthropology. Editor(s): Gregor, Thomas; Tuzin, Donald F. Num Pages: 402 pages, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; 1MKL; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520228528
- ISBN
- 9780520228528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.85
€ 37.99
€ 27.85
Paperback. An ethnographic study of how gender is negotiated in Vanatinai, a small matrilineal island near New Guinea. Num Pages: 383 pages, 20 photos. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231081214
- ISBN
- 9780231081214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.31
€ 54.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1MK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 177 x 12. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941792070
- ISBN
- 9781941792070
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.92
€ 25.99
€ 20.92
Hardcover. Series: Race and Ethnicity in Hawai'i. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Univ Hawaii Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824839505
- ISBN
- 9780824839505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.78
€ 53.99
€ 45.78
Paperback. A prominent scholar surveys the special place of Melanesia in our understanding of human cultural variation Num Pages: 352 pages, 23ill.1tab.1M. BIC Classification: 1MKL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472066872
- ISBN
- 9780472066872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.44
€ 36.99
€ 31.44
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
€ 33.99€ 30.22
€ 33.99
€ 30.22
Paperback. West Papua has been occupied by the Indonesian military for forty years. The author, an anthropologist, went there planning to study the resistance movements working for independence. This title narrates the complexities of West Papuan attitudes, including their unfulfilled expectations of freedom following the fall of Suharto. Num Pages: 328 pages, 52 photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1MKLP; JHM; JPW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351344
- ISBN
- 9780822351344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.22
€ 33.99
€ 30.22
Hardcover. This work chronicles the growth - and the growing pains - of the tourist economy on Maui. It takes the readers into the heart of this island paradise to reveal the complexity of economic and environmental issues, especially as perceived by Maui's residents since the 1950s. Series: Development of Western Resources S. Num Pages: 296 pages, 23 photographs. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; GTB; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700610860
- ISBN
- 9780700610860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.86€ 57.79
€ 62.86
€ 57.79
Hardcover. Western societies draw crucially on concepts of the "individual" in constructing their images of the ethnic group and nation and define these in terms of difference. This study explores the implications of these constructs for Western understanding of social order and ethnic conflicts. BIC Classification: 1MKL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571816801
- ISBN
- 9781571816801
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.54
€ 157.54
Hardcover. Focuses on the process of policy transfer in the Pacific and the use of power to achieve it. The book identifies institutional transfer as a persistent theme in the study of the Pacific, and the author analyzes about forty cases of institutional transfer Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKP; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824829018
- ISBN
- 9780824829018
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.18€ 60.05
€ 65.18
€ 60.05