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2024 Book Display

This year's Online Book Display features the following titles, hot off the presses, plus some great deals (and a few old favorites)!
Thank you to all of our publishers and to John Barker for all his hard work assembling this information.


Important update: on the final day of the 2024 meeting we realized a website glitch caused some of the books and publishers to disappear from this page. We encourage you to visit the websites of the following publishers to learn more about their Pacific-related titles!

- University of Toronto Press (additional titles)
(Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight, by Cindy Sturtz Sreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Jessica Hardin, Sarah Trainer, and Amber Wutich
; Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel, by Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips

- University of Washington Press - Use the discount code WASAO24 for a discount on all purchases on their website!
(Working with the Ancestors, by Emily C. Donaldson; Reppin', by Keith L. Camacho; Gardens of Gold, by Jamon Alex Halvaksz; Spawning Modern Fish, by Heather Anne Swanson; Turning the Land into Capital, ed. by Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah and Michael B. Dwyer)


- Universitatsverlag Winter Heidelberg 
(Tracking the Ancestors, by Jurg Wassmann)

- Waveland Press 
(The Gebusi, by Bruce Knauft)


Thank you also to all of our authors who gave book talks at the 2024 Virtual Meeting! Bravo!


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Also interested in Pacific Islands music? Support climate change recovery efforts in Micronesia by purchasing a copy of the newly released Island Micronesia: Electronic Melodies by the Lamo Serai Boyz!

As with many other low-lying Pacific Islands, the island of Lamotrek is being severely impacted by Climate Change. 100% of all the profits from the sale of this CD will be donated to help the community of Lamotrek purchase food supplies to make up for the loss of their staple food crops of taro and coconut.

Popular songs offer insight into the perseverance and continuing life ways of these island communities threatened by climate change. The Lamo Serai Boyz have recorded a truly amazing collection of electronic melodies based on popular and traditional songs from Lamotrek, their home island, and from other neighboring islands in Micronesia.




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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Featuring their Global Asia Series.

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ANU PRESS

Featuring its Pacific Series, free online access to titles in digital format and two forthcoming Pacific region titles in 2024.

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Grassroots Law in Papua New Guinea


Melissa Demian, ed.


2023
212 pages
Open access
Print version ($49.95)

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Fijians in Transnational Pentecostal Networks


Karen J. Brison


2023
164 pages
Open access
Print version ($29.95)



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Islands of Hope: Indigenous Resource Management in a Changing Pacific


Paul D'Arcy and Daya Dakasi Da-Wei Kuan, eds.


2023
432 pages
Open access
Print version ($74.95)


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Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation: Journeys in Bougainville


Gordon Peake


2022
158 pages
Open access
Print version ($29.95)



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Suva Stories: A History of the Capital of Fiji


Nicholas Halter, ed.


2022
477 pages
Open access
Print version ($75.00)

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Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania


Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones, and Matthew Spriggs, eds.


2021
614 pages
Open access
Print version ($110.00)

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Honiara: Village-City of Solomon Islands


Clive Moore


2022
547 pages
Open access
Print version ($99.00)

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Papua New Guinea: Government, Economy and Society


Stephen Howes and Lekshmi N. Pillai, eds.


2022
262 pages
Open access
Print version ($66.00)

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Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific


Nicholas A. Bainton, Debra McDougall, Kalissa Alexeyeff, and John Cox, eds.


2021
560 pages
Open access
Print version ($80.00)

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AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds


Anne Salmond

2017
512 pages
eBook

 
 

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Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu


Tom Bratrud

2022
276 pages, 20 illus.
Hardcover ($135.00)
eBook ($34.95)

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Pacific Spaces: Translations and Transmutations


Edited by A.-Chr Engels-Schwarzpaul, Lana Lopesi, and Albert L. Refiti


2022
218 pages
Hardcover ($135.00)
eBook ($34.95)

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Ӧmie Sex Affiliation: A Papuan Nature


Marta Rohatynskyj


2023
274 pages, 14 illus.
Hardcover ($135.00)
eBook ($34.95)

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Engaging Environments in Tonga: Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World


Arne Aleksej Perminow


2022
244 pages, 11 illus.
Hardcover ($135.00)
eBook (open access)

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In Memory of Times to Come: Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea


Melissa Demian


2021
240 pages, 13 illus.
Hardcover ($135.00)
eBook ($34.95)

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Enacted Relations: Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community


Franca Tamisari


2024
320 pages, 11 illus.
Hardcover ($135.00)
eBook ($34.95)



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BLOOMSBURY

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Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and the Reimagining of History


Ryota Nishino


2022
264 pages, 10 illus.
Hardcover ($103.50)
Paperback ($35.95)
eBook ($82.80)

 

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BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY HAWAII

Featuring the Pacific Studies Journal.

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Pacific Studies Journal

The Pacific Studies Journal addresses a range of interdisciplinary topics pertaining to Oceania. Their special issues include Ta-Va (Time-Space) Theory of Reality (2017)
; Genealogies: Articulating Indigenous Anthropology in/of Oceania (2010); Land and Law (2011); Pacific Islands Diaspora, Identity, and Incorporation (2012); Creativity, Innovation, Access to Knowledge, and Development in Pacific Island Communities (2013); and Women Writing Oceania: Weaving the Sails of Vaka (2007).

To find out more or to purchase any of these or other special issues, visit the Pacific Studies Journal home page.

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BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS

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CAROLINA ACADEMIC PRESS

Featuring their Ritual Studies Monograph Series.

Get 20% off on orders from the CAP website by using the discount code ASAO24 at check out (deal ends June 1, 2024).

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Singing Samo Songs: From Shaman to Pastor


R. Daniel Shaw


2022
276 pages
$45.00

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Making Law in Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Origins of a Postcolonial Legal System


Bruce L. Ottley, David Weisbrot, Jean G. Zorn


2021
538 pages
$68.00

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Oceania: An Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Pacific Islanders, 2nd ed.


Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart, Laurence M. Carucci, Lin Poyer, Richard Feinberg, Cluny Macpherson

2017
308 pages
$51.00

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DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Featuring their Elements Series.

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Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment

Hi`ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart


2022
264 pages, 10 illus.
$26.95

 

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Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game

 

Lisa Uperesa

 

2022

240 pages, 19 illus.

$25.95

 

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Hawai'i is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific

Nitasha Tamar Sharma

2021

360 pages, 17 illus.

$28.95

 


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Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences

Jessica A. Schwartz

2021

312 pages, 21 illus.

$28.95

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa

Holger Droessler

2022

304 pages
$41.00


 

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MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other

John Richens

2022

272 pages
Paperback ($39.99)
eBook ($25.99)

 

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands

Elise Berman

2019

224 pages, 26 illus.
Paperback ($37.95)


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Interior Frontiers: Essays on the Entrails of Inequality

Ann Laura Stoler

2022

400 pages
Paperback ($24.95)


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The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania

Terry L. Hunt and Ethan E. Cochrane

2021

524 pages
Paperback ($55.00)


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The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages

Edited by Claire Bowern

2023

1,184 pages
Hardcover ($190.00)

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Singing and Survival: The Music of Easter Island

Dan Bendrups

2019

224 pages
Paperback ($31.95)

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ROUTLEDGE

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Exploring Iberian Counterpoints in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Pacific

Rainer F. Buschmann and David Manzano Cosano

2024
144 pages, 13 illus.

Paperback & eBook ($39.16)


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Material Encounters

 

Bronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard, eds.

 

2024

196 pages

Hardcover ($136.00)

eBook ($51.96)

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Gothic in the Oceanic South: Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters

Allison Craven and Diana Sandars, eds.

2023
224 pages, 12 illus.

Hardcover ($136.00)
eBook ($42.36)

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Archaeology of Pacific Oceania: Inhabiting a Sea of Islands (2nd Edition)

 

Mike T. Carson

 

2024

400 pages, 204 illus.

Hardcover ($136.00)
Paperback & eBook ($37.56)

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Women's Football in Oceania

Lee McGowan, Kasey Symons, and Yoko Kanemasu

2023
258 pages, 1 illus.

Hardcover ($136.00)
eBook ($42.36)


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Spirit Structures of Papua New Guinea: Art and Architecture in the Kaiaimunucene

 

Michael Hirschbichler

 

Forthcoming in 2024

272 pages, 77 illus.

Hardcover ($136.00)

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Social Change in the Pacific Islands

Albert B. Robillard, ed.

2020
256 pages

$39.95

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Family Violence and Social Change in the Pacific Islands

 

Lois Bastide and Denis Regnier, eds.

 

2023

202 pages, 1 illus.

Hardcover ($128.00)

eBook ($39.16)

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Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography

Fetaui Iosefo, Stacy Holman Jones, and Anne Harris, eds.

2020
238 pages, 18 illus.

Hardcover ($136.00)
Paperback & eBook ($42.36)

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Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea: Musical Analysis as a Pathway to Learning

 

Tony Lewis

 

2018

228 pages, 113 illus.

Hardcover ($128.00)

Paperback & eBook ($42.36)


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An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean

Nigel Statham and Ian C. Campbell, eds.


2022
552 pages, 27 illus.

Hardcover ($128.00)

eBook ($39.16)

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The U.S. and the War in the Pacific, 1941-45

 

Sandra Wilson, Michael Sturma, Arjun Subrahmanyan, Dean Aszkielowicz, and J. Charles Schencking


2022

172 pages, 10 illus.

Hardcover ($128.00)

Paperback ($39.16)

eBook ($35.96)

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Sex and Gender in the Pacific: Contemporary Perspectives on Sexuality, Gender and Health

Angela Kelly-Hanku, Peter Aggleton, and Anne Malcolm, eds.


2023

232 pages, 18 illus.

Hardcover ($128.00)

eBook ($39.16)

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Anthropology, Islands and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene

 

Justin Armstrong

 

2022

82 pages

Hardcover ($47.96)

eBook ($18.36)

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Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in Theory: Archaeological Perspectives

Tim Thomas, ed.


2020

348 pages, 36 illus.

Hardcover ($136.00)

Paperback & eBook ($39.96)

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Ancestral Presence: Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands

 

Eric Hirsch

 

2021

256 pages, 29 illus.

Hardcover ($136.00)

Paperback & eBook ($42.36)



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The Global Anti-Corruption Regime: The Case of Papua New Guinea

Hannah Harris


2019

266 pages

Hardcover ($136.00)

Paperback & eBook ($42.36)

 

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ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD

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Linguistic Landscaping and the Pacific Region: Colonization, Indigenous Identities, and Critical Discourse Theory

Diane Elizabeth Johnson

2021

162 pages

Hardcover ($100.00)
Paperback ($39.99)
eBook ($38.00)


 

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RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Forgotten Bodies: Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam

Sarah A. Smith

2023

234 pages, 21 illus.

Hardcover ($150.00)
Paperback ($37.95)
eBook ($37.95)

 

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SEAN KINGSTON PUBLISHING

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The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik

Ross Bowden

2023

234 pages
Hardcover ($180.00)

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The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands


Pierre Maranda, James Tuita Dede, and Ben Burt

2022

112 pages
Hardcover ($140.00)




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SPRINGER / PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

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She Speaks Her Anger: Myths and Conversations of Gimi Women

Gillian Gillison

2020

290 pages
eBook ($84.99)



 
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The Pacific Insular Case of American Samoa: Land Rights and Law in Unincorporated US Territories

Line-Noue Memea Kruse

2018

211 pages, 2 illus.

Hardcover ($159.99)
Paperback ($109.99)
eBook ($84.99)

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The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture

Elizabeth Grant, Kelly Greenop, Albert L. Refiti, and Daniel J. Glenn, eds.

2018

1001 pages, 278 illus.

Hardcover ($599.99)

Paperback ($599.99)

eBook ($469.00)


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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

 

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA) features the recent special issue, Reproductive Abandonment in Oceania (2022), guest edited by Jenny Munro and Alexandra Widmer.

TAPJA publishes social and cultural anthropological research with a focus on the Asia and Pacific region, including Australia. Other special issues focused on the Pacific include The Value of Ethnographic Research on Music (2021); The Dynamics of Mobility: New Perspectives on Child Circulation in the Pacific (2017); Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific (2016); Special Focus: Anthropology, Public Policy, and Social Progress in Indigenous Australia (2013); Productive Relations and Relational Products: Field Research and Reciprocity (2013); Framing the Art of West Papua (2011); and Negotiating the Horizon--Living Christianity in Melanesia (2011).



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The Journal of Pacific History


The Journal of Pacific History (JPH) is a refereed publication dedicated to research concerning the Pacific Islands, their peoples and their pasts from prehistory to the present. It publishes articles on political, economic, religious, and cultural history as well as analyses of contemporary developments, critical surveys and commentary. It also publishes primary documents, source material notes, reviews, exhibitions and other media.

A recent special issue on Bernard Narokobi, co-edited by Lise Dobrin and Alex Golub, specifically features the work of anthropologists. JPH prioritizes open-access publications and awards the Gunson Essay Prize, which recognizes the work of PhD students and early career researchers with a cash prize every two years.



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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS



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We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea

 

Jason Roberts

 

Forthcoming in 2024

264 pages
Hardcover ($65.00)
eBook ($35.00)

 

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UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Featuring their journal, Pacific Affairs.

   
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Pacific Affairs is a peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal focused on the current political, economic, and social issues throughout Asia and the Pacific. Recent issues have included a piece on defeating the politics of fear in Fiji's 2022 elections, by Jon Fraenkel, and an exploration of affect, spirituality and resource use in the Marquesas Islands, by Emily C. Donaldson.

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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI`I PRESS

Featuring their Pacific Islands Archaeology, Indigenous Pacifics, Topics in the Contemporary Pacific, and The New Oceania Literary Series.

For a 30% discountuse the code ASAO24 when you buy titles from their website. Offer expires March 31, 2024.

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Mata Austronesia: Stories from an Ocean World

 

Tuki Drake

 

2022

112 pages

$18.99

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Connecting the Kingdom: Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790-1840

 

Peter R. Mills

           

2022

296 pages, 13 illus.

Hardcover ($80.00)

Paperback ($27.99)

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Building and Remembering: An Archaeology of Place-Making on Papua New Guinea's South Coast

 

Chris Urwin

 

2022

262 pages, 60 illus.

Hardcover ($76.00)

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Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua

 

Camellia Webb-Gannon

           

2021

228 pages, 5 illus.

Hardcover ($68.00)

Paperback ($28.00)

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Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania

Jamon Alex Halvaksz II and Joshua A. Bell, eds.

Forthcoming in 2024

292 pages, 25 illus.

Hardcover ($68.00)

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A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania

 

Lorenz Gonschor

 

2019

256 pages, 11 illus.

Hardcover ($80.00)

Paperback ($28.00)

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Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji

Jacqueline Leckie

2019

294 pages, 26 illus.

Hardcover ($84.00)
Paperback ($28.00)

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Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawai'i to Kahiki

 

Emalani Case

 

2021

160 pages

Hardcover ($78.00)

Paperback ($24.99)

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Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses

Philipp Schorch

2020

316 pages, 42 illus.

Hardcover ($84.00)
Paperback ($32.00)

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Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American Samoa

 

JoAnna Poblete

 

2020

214 pages, 11 illus.

Hardcover ($68.00)

Paperback ($28.00)

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Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific: The Children of Indigenous Women and U.S. Servicemen, World War II

Judith A. Bennett and Angela Wanhalla, eds.

2016

404 pages, 92 illus.

Hardcover ($65.00)
Paperback ($30.00)

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Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia

Evelyn Flores and Emelihter Kihleng, eds.

 

2019

384 pages

Hardcover ($90.00)

Paperback ($30.00)

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The New Port Moresby: Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea

Ceridwen Spark

2020

174 pages, 8 illus.

Hardcover ($80.00)
Paperback ($30.00)

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God is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific

Matt Tomlinson

 

2020

182 pages, 19 illus.

Hardcover ($80.00)

Paperback ($28.00)

 

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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

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Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest (2nd Edition)


John Barker

2016

248 pages, 28 illus.

Paperback ($34.95)
eBook ($28.95)

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Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu

Alexandra Widmer

 

2023

262 pages, 12 illus.
Paperback ($29.95)
eBook ($29.95)