Unfolding the Moon - Enacting Women's Kastom in Vanuatu by Lissant Bolton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
SALE PRICE $25.00 In the first decades after independence in 1980, kastom - indigenous knowledge and practice - became a key marker of ni-Vanuatu identity. However, it was almost entirely concerned with men. Then in 1991 the Vanuatu Cultural Centre initiated a project that focused on women's knowledge ...Show more
Tu Galala - Social Change in the Pacific by David Robie (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
The Diaries of Walter Murray Gibson, 1886-1887 by Jacob Adler; Gwynn W. Barrett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Ancient Voyagers in Polynesia by Andrew Sharp
$30.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
New Flags Flying: Pacific leadership by Ian Johnstone and Michael Powles (editors)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
"From 1960 to 1990, islands across the Pacific gained independence or self-government. In the years following this, Ian Johnstone and Michael Powles interviewed the Pacific people in key leadership positions in the lead-up to and achievement of independence. This book presents a nation-by-nation history ...Show more
The Expedition of the St.Jean-Baptiste to the Pacific 1769-1770 from Journals of Jean de Surville and Guillaume Labe by Jean de Surville; Guillaume Labe; John Dunmore (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 158 | Reading Level: very good
Storms and Dreams: Louis De Bougainville: Soldier, Explorer, Statesman by John Dunmore
$30.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. Throughout a long and distinguished life, however, he participated in many of the turning points of world history: the birth of the United States, the fall of French Canada, the opening ...Show more
Omai, Pacific Envoy by E H McCormick
$40.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: good-very good
Mai or Omai, as he was known to Europeans, was the first Polynesian to visit Britain. Picked up by one of Cook's captains, he was carried to England where he became a human curiosity... Omai's story has been told in numerous books and articles. But hitherto there has been no comprehensive study of its ...Show more
A Polymath Anthropologist - Essays in Honour of Ann Chowning by Harriet Lyons; Dorothy Ayers Counts; Ann Chowning; Claudia Gross; University of Auckland, Dept. of Anthropology Staff (Contribution by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Series: Research in Anthropology and Linguistics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Resource Units in Hawaiian Culture by Donald D. Mitchell; Nancy Middlesworth (Illustrator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Pacific Nations and Territories - The Islands of Micronesia, melanesia, and Polynesia by Reilly Ridgell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific - Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa by Stephanie Lawson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Series: Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies | Reading Level: very good
This study analyzes the ways in which political elites use the idea of "tradition" to legitimize certain practices and institutions. Within this framework, case studies focus on constitutional development and the chiefly power in Fiji, the monarchy and the Pro-Democracy Movement in Tonga, and the politi ...Show more