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Oceania
Hardcover. Num Pages: 154 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604565171
- ISBN
- 9781604565171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.06€ 79.42
€ 114.06
€ 79.42
Hardcover. Drawing together a wide variety of material on the history, ethnography, and medical anthropology of tobacco in the Pacific islands, this book presents how the introduction and spread of tobacco affected the lives of islanders. The study illustrates the Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; JFFH1; JHMC; MMZR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Univ of Hawaii Pr
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824836856
- ISBN
- 9780824836856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.86€ 58.02
€ 62.86
€ 58.02
Paperback. Editor(s): Lohmann, Roger Ivar. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MK; GTB; JHMC; JMTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403963307
- ISBN
- 9781403963307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.76
€ 79.76
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
€ 102.43€ 78.54
€ 102.43
€ 78.54
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
€ 36.99€ 27.13
€ 36.99
€ 27.13
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
€ 155.15
€ 155.15
Hardcover. Offering a counter-discourse to the accepted liberal metanarrative of schooling in Micronesia, this volume argues that across the Pacific region, American-developed school systems are today non-neutral cultural players with quasi-colonialist credentials. Series: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MKC; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400746725
- ISBN
- 9789400746725
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.76
€ 122.76
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. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKCU; HBJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 203 x 33. Weight in Grams: 875.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824833343
- ISBN
- 9780824833343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.78
€ 53.99
€ 45.78
Paperback. This title is an in-depth exploration of the defences of "Fortress Oahu". It documents the development of these complex and integrated systems and analyzes the success of the infamous Japanese attack in the light of their knowledge of the island's defences. Series: Fortress. Num Pages: 64 pages, 8 colour and 55 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; 3JJH; HBJF; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWA; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 183 x 6. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841765723
- ISBN
- 9781841765723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.57
€ 21.99
€ 18.57
Hardcover. This text explores through theory and in-depth textual criticism how novelists from formerly colonized societies have exploited indigenous codes and conventions of aesthetic representation to transform the novel into an effective medium for cultural and political resistance to (neo)colonialism. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJW; 1MKP; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 509.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333638699
- ISBN
- 9780333638699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.73
€ 122.73
Paperback. A balanced portrayal acknowledging that Short bore responsibility for certain charges made against him, but also providing ample evidence that Short's superiors worked hard to blame him and Kimmel as a way of avoiding their own culpability. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MKPH; 3JJH; HBJK; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591140054
- ISBN
- 9781591140054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.46
€ 29.99
€ 25.46
Hardcover. Features a study of gender, globalization, and expressive culture in the Cook Islands. This book demonstrates how dance in particular plays a key role in articulating the overlapping local, regional, and transnational agendas of Cook Islanders. It also covers conventional views of globalization's impact on indigenous communities. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKPC; AS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Hawai'i Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780824832445
- ISBN
- 9780824832445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.02€ 58.88
€ 64.02
€ 58.88
Paperback. This volume offers information on how, for 50 years, the bush Kaliai in Melanesia have worked the deserted cargo left by US Marines during World War II into their indigenous culture. The author seeks to show how cargo cults in general bring together past, present and future. Series: New Directions in Anthropological Writing S. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1MKL; JFC; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299158040
- ISBN
- 9780299158040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.51
€ 33.99
€ 28.51
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
€ 81.48€ 74.28
€ 81.48
€ 74.28
Hardcover. In 1953, members of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce created a beauty contest, the Cherry Blossom Festival Queen Pageant. This work analyzes the pageant through its decades of development within multiple frameworks of gender, class, and race/ethnicity. It paints a portrait of not only a beauty pageant, but also a community. Num Pages: 336 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; ASZP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Univ of Hawaii Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824830076
- ISBN
- 9780824830076
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.35€ 61.07
€ 66.35
€ 61.07
Crowley: An Erromangan (Sye) Ol27 (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publica...
Professor Of Linguistics Terry Crowley
Paperback. This volume presents a description of the language that is currently spoken on the island of Erromango, in southern Vanuatu in the southwestern part of the Pacific. Series: Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication. Num Pages: 312 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLV; 2PGP; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824819354
- ISBN
- 9780824819354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.75
€ 51.99
€ 43.75
Paperback. Analyzes the complex and conflicting forms of sociality that Guhu-Samane Christians of rural Papua New Guinea privilege and celebrate as "the body of Christ." Far from being a practice of individualism, this title offers local people ways to make social groups sacred units of critique. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; HRCC2; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283763
- ISBN
- 9780520283763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.45
€ 33.99
€ 24.45
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
Hardback. Tongan women living outside of their island homeland create and use hand-made, sometimes hybridized, textiles to maintain and rework their cultural traditions in diaspora. Central to these traditions is an ancient concept of homeland or nation - fonua - which Tongans retain as an anchor for modern nation-building. Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology. Num Pages: 252 pages, 19 ills, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MKPT; JFFN; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857458957
- ISBN
- 9780857458957
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.18
€ 158.18