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Oceania
Paperback. Tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, this title investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 1MKLP; 1MKP; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 424. The Paradox of Keeping-while-giving. 264 pages, 24 b&w photographs, 1 map. Tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, this title investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 1MKLP; 1MKP; JFFK; JHM. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 15. Weight: 414.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520076044
- ISBN
- 9780520076044
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.56
€ 38.99
€ 28.56
Hardback. This is the first comprehensive integration of political theory to explain indigenous politics. It assesses how indigenous and liberal political theories interact to consider the policy implications of the indigenous right to self-determination. The implications for national reconciliation, liberal democracy and citizenship are explored. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 1MBN; 1MKLF; JFSL9; JPA; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447339427
- ISBN
- 9781447339427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.87
€ 105.87
Hardback. This volume focuses on Pacific Rim cities and analyzes successful policies and programmes in urban development, explaining why they have worked. It identify themes of change that are taking place in the context of globalization, economic restructuring, and social change. Editor(s): Williams, J. F.; Stimson, Robert J. Series: International Review of Comparative Public Policy. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1MK; GTF; JFFS; JHMC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 159 x 38. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762306954
- ISBN
- 9780762306954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.26
€ 187.26
Hardback. Editor(s): Ashley, Linda. Series: Landscapes: The Arts, Aesthetics and Education. Num Pages: 316 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1MK; ASD; AV; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 637.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319289878
- ISBN
- 9783319289878
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Condition: New
€ 128.84
€ 128.84
Hardback. The question of how the international community should engage in a legitimate way in state-building in war- torn, weak or failing states is a priority question for international relations. This book draws on a group of specialists to examine this question in relation to a new model of state-building intervention in the Pacific 'arc of crisis'. Editor(s): Fry, Greg; Kabutaulaka, Tarcisius Tara. Series Editor(s): Lawler, Peter; Guittet, Emmanuel-Pierre. Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1MK; JPS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719076831
- ISBN
- 9780719076831
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Condition: New
€ 168.73
€ 168.73
Paperback. The author convinces a tribe in remote New Guinea to allow him to become initiated along with 15 boys due to undergo the rite of passage into manhood. Their totemic god is the crocodile and crocodile marks are carved onto their bodies with sharpened bamboo. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8pp b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571206223
- ISBN
- 9780571206223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.09
€ 17.99
€ 13.09
Paperback. Depicts Hawai'i's press against the continent, endowing America's story with fresh meaning. This book reveals Hawaiians fighting in the Civil War, sailing on nineteenth-century New England ships, and living in pre-gold rush California. It revises the way we think about islands, oceans, and continents. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 328 pages, 57 b/w photographs, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MKPH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520261679
- ISBN
- 9780520261679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
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
€ 63.04
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
€ 24.81
€ 24.81
Paperback. Translator(s): Wissing, P. Num Pages: 472 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1MKP; HRKT; HRLF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226845609
- ISBN
- 9780226845609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.51€ 46.16
€ 53.51
€ 46.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; HBWQ; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 239 x 25. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd Australia
- Edition
- Australian e.
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780730376996
- ISBN
- 9780730376996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.75
€ 27.99
€ 22.75
Hardcover. Wogeo Island is well known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea. Based on substantial fieldwork, the author builds on and expands previous research by showing how Wogeos establish and maintain social relationships and identities connected to place and movement in the physical landscape. Series: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific. Num Pages: 324 pages, 3 maps, 26 ills, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845457754
- ISBN
- 9781845457754
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.61
€ 162.61
Paperback. For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. This title shows how a complex interplay of various observers is key to the establishment and understanding of the sovereign nation-state. Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226731988
- ISBN
- 9780226731988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
Hardcover. Papua New Guinea's two most powerful legal orders - customary law and state criminal law - undermine each other in criminal matters. This phenomenon, called legal dissonance, can lead to an activity being advanced by one legal order and punished by the other, leading to injustice and each legal order's diminished ability to deter wrongdoing. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; LAF; LNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 236 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782386483
- ISBN
- 9781782386483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.54
€ 164.54
Hardback. Leviathans at the Gold Mine is an ethnography about the Ipili, an indigenous group in Papua New Guinea; an enormous gold mine operated by an international conglomerate on Ipili land; and the process through which "the Ipili" and "the mine" brought each other into being as entities. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; GTB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 18. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354949
- ISBN
- 9780822354949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Paperback. This text is at once a detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of oneof the final modern-day experiences of first-culture contact, a classic example of historical geography, and an extraordinary tale of exploration, imperialist arrogance, blood-shed, suffering, courage, and near disaster. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 497.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718998
- ISBN
- 9780804718998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.84
€ 43.99
€ 38.84
Hardback. Focusing on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, among others, contributors assert that kinship is a lived and living dimension of contemporary human lives. The ethnographic case studies add to the understanding of kinship as-according to Unaisi Nabobo-Baba-"knowledge that counts." Editor(s): Toren, Christina; Pauwels, Simonne. Series: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists. Num Pages: 300 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782385776
- ISBN
- 9781782385776
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.88
€ 162.88
Paperback. A Childhood Dream. A Lost Land. The Journey of a Lifetime. Num Pages: 352 pages, col. Illustrations, maps, col. ports. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753828724
- ISBN
- 9780753828724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.92
€ 15.99
€ 11.92
Paperback. The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MK; 3JJH; BGH; HBJM; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316405331
- ISBN
- 9780316405331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.28
€ 25.99
€ 18.28
Hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1MKLF; KCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 180 x 11. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604566185
- ISBN
- 9781604566185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.52€ 81.20
€ 116.52
€ 81.20