Travels in Hawaii by Robert Louis Stevenson; A. Grove Day (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
In 1899 a chartered yacht, the Casco, brought to Honolulu Robert Louis Stevenson and his family. The writer was then already at the height of his popularity in Europe and the United States. He spent the next six months and another, shorter period in 1893 in the Hawaiian Islands, participating in the lif ...Show more
Talk Never Dies - The Language of Huli Disputes by Laurence Goldman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Marquesan Societies - Inequality and Political Transformation in Eastern Polynesia by Nicholas Thomas
$80.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: good-very good
Marquesan society has long captured the interest of European observers, in part because of unfamiliar institutions such as polyandry. However, due to complex and destructive historical changes and the very scattered nature of early source-materials, the distinctive Marquesan developments ofPolynesian so ...Show more
Linguistics in Oceania - Current Trends in Linguistics, Volume 8 in 2 volumes by Thomas Sebeok (ed.)
$120.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Reading Level: very good
The Empty Place - Poetry, Space, and Being among the Foi of Papua New Guinea by James F. Weiner
$20.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Weiner analyzes the poetic imagery of songs composed by Foi women and performed by Foi men of the Mubi River Valley. These poems recreate Foi geography and employ image and metaphor to express their most encompassing existential and social contrasts. Weiner's use of philosophy in the aid of ethnography ...Show more
Feasts and Festivals - A celebration of Pacific Island culture in New Zealand by Glenn Jowitt
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
South Pacific traditions are alive in melting pot New Zealand. Beautiful photos.
Pacific Studies Volume 15 No. 4 - Special Issue: The Arts and Politics by Karen L. Nero (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Pacific
Hawaii under Army Rule - The real story of three years of martial law in a loyal American territory by J. Garner Anthony
$15.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
The Ilse - First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1903-1973 by Wayne Patterson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Series: Hawai'i Studies on Korea Ser. | Reading Level: very good
On January 13, 1903, the first Korean immigrants arrived in Hawai'i. Numbering a little more than a hundred individuals, this group represented the initial wave of organized Korean immigration to Hawai'i. Over the next two and a half years, nearly 7,500 Koreans would make the long journey eastward acros ...Show more
Social Organisation of Manua by Margaret Mead
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Series: Bernice P Bishop Museum Bulletin 76 | Reading Level: very good
Ethnology of Easter Island by Alfred Metraux
$60.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good