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Hardcover. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives "What about me?" This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like "community" can be useful in places otherwise permeated by kinship. Series: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782387817
- ISBN
- 9781782387817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.95
€ 157.95
Paperback. Donald Tuzin first studied the New Guinea village of Ilahita in 1972. Years later he returned to find that the village's men had voluntarily destroyed their secret cult which allowed them dominance over women. This study examines the labyrinth of motives behind this improbable, devastating act. Series: Worlds of Desire S. Num Pages: 270 pages, 10 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFSJ2; JFSL9; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226819518
- ISBN
- 9780226819518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 30.81
€ 38.99
€ 30.81
Hardcover. This text explores the long-term effects of the joint Franco-British administration in public policy, political disputes and social cleavages in post-independence Vanuatu. The volume aims also to interpret the evolution of an insular society beset by colonial fractures. Num Pages: 288 pages, 23 illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLV; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824819798
- ISBN
- 9780824819798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.83€ 52.89
€ 56.83
€ 52.89
Hardcover. Explores the resulting interactions between German colonial officials, resident ethnographic collectors, and indigenous peoples, arguing that all were instrumental in the formation of anthropological theory. This book shows how ethnological collecting, often a competitive affair, could become politicized and connect to national concerns. Series: Perspectives on the Global Past. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJM; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Edition
- 1 New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824831844
- ISBN
- 9780824831844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.18€ 61.07
€ 66.18
€ 61.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; GBGP; HBJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Univ Hawaii Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824839307
- ISBN
- 9780824839307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.51
€ 32.99
€ 28.51
Num Pages: 188 pages, 213 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 285 x 18. Weight in Grams: 850.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612519241
- ISBN
- 9781612519241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.74
€ 50.99
€ 42.74
Hardback. Num Pages: 512 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; 3JJH; BTM; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 44. Weight in Grams: 907.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780789208170
- ISBN
- 9780789208170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 28.19
€ 29.99
€ 28.19
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
€ 117.00
€ 117.00
paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; GTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816637270
- ISBN
- 9780816637270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.30
€ 31.99
€ 29.30
Paperback. The first in-depth ethnography of a Lower Ramu River society. Provides a unique ethnographic example of kinship / relatedness. Shows the conceptual convergence of foodways with empathy. Provides an example of the cultural dimensions of empathy. Series: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 illustrations, 4 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFCV; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785332203
- ISBN
- 9781785332203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
Paperback. What went wrong in Free French relations with Americans during World War Two? Documenting French policy toward the American presence in New Caledonia during the war, the author demonstrates the existence of a deep-seated suspicion, fear, even paranoia about the Americans that colored almost every phase of Free French policy. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; 1MKLN; 3JJH; HBJD; HBJK; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453008
- ISBN
- 9781845453008
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.67
€ 44.67
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Westholme Publishing, U.S. United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594161513
- ISBN
- 9781594161513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.31
€ 25.99
€ 22.31
Hardcover. In the 1800s American and European traders arrived in Hawai'i. In response, Russia expanded its trading outposts as far west as Kaua'i and together with Kaua'i chiefs began to plan the construction of Fort Elizabeth. This text provides a study of the fort and its place in the history of Kaua'i. Num Pages: 344 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1MKPH; 3JH; HBJM; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR; JW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824824044
- ISBN
- 9780824824044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.88€ 84.45
€ 92.88
€ 84.45
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
€ 32.99€ 28.51
€ 32.99
€ 28.51
Paperback. Includes shark stories from the collection "Nanaue the Shark Man" and Other Hawaiian Shark Stories and three ethnographic essays on fishing: "Hawaiian Fisheries and Methods of Fishing" (1883), "An Account of Fishing" (1916-1919) and "Hawaiian Shark 'Aumakua" (1917). Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; WSXF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780970959751
- ISBN
- 9780970959751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.27
€ 17.99
€ 16.27
Paperback. "An outstanding contribution to psychological anthropology. Its excellent ethnography and its provocative theory make it essential reading for all those concerned with the understanding of human emotions."--Karl G. Heider, "American Anthropologist" Num Pages: 288 pages, 6ill.2M. BIC Classification: 1MKC; JHM; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226497228
- ISBN
- 9780226497228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.44
€ 31.99
€ 25.44
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
€ 36.99€ 33.65
€ 36.99
€ 33.65
Hardback. A comprehensive overview of human history from two million years ago to the historic period. Focusing on East Asia and Oceania, this encyclopedia is prepared under the auspices and with the support of the Human Relations Area Files, and an internationally distinguished advisory board. Editor(s): Peregrine, Peter N.; Ember, Melvin. Num Pages: 386 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; 1MK; HBG; HBLA; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1281.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 386
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306462573
- ISBN
- 9780306462573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.51
€ 191.51
Paperback. Newman, University of Florida; Dolores E. Janiewski, Victoria University of Wellington; Christopher Shannon, University of Notre Dame; Gerald Sullivan, University of Notre Dame; Sharon Tiffany, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; Jean Walton, University of Rhode Island; Virginia Yans, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Editor(s): Janiewski, Dolores; Banner, Lois W. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1MKPR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801879753
- ISBN
- 9780801879753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99
€ 37.99
hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, over 250 colour & b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 270. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Didier Millet,Csi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789814385251
- ISBN
- 9789814385251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.05€ 53.49
€ 58.05
€ 53.49
Hardback. Editor(s): Jeffery, Renee. Num Pages: 274 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1MKLS; GTJ; JPVH; JPWL; LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137596949
- ISBN
- 9781137596949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.27
€ 186.27
Paperback. Broadly speaking, the Korean 1.5 generation refers to the bilingual children of immigrants or immigrants who arrived in their formative years and identify with both Korean and American culture. A 1.5er herself, Danico (sociology, California State Polytechnic U.) investigates how Korean immigrants to Hawai'i are socialized into their identities. U Series: Intersections: Asian & Pacific American Transcultural Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1MKPH; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Univ of Hawaii Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824826956
- ISBN
- 9780824826956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.48
€ 30.99
€ 26.48
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
Hardcover. Series: Topics in Contemporary Pacific. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMNT; 1MKLP; HBTQ; JHB; JHMC; KCN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824856663
- ISBN
- 9780824856663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.95€ 72.25
€ 78.95
€ 72.25