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Detail of wrapper - FRANK HURLEY IN PAPUA (specht01p 170/237 SPEC01)
Specht, Jim & John Fields. FRANK HURLEY IN PAPUA. Photographs of the 1920-1923 Expeditions. BNo. 0-909197-90-3. First Edition, 1984. Pp: vi, 194; 285mm x 240mm; 1.44kg. 100 b/w, 1 map. Acknowledgments, foreword, introduction, bibliography. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Australian Museum Trust, Robert Brown and Associates, Bathurst, NSW, 1984. (This book presents 100 of the photographs of Captain Frank Hurley's Papua New Guinea photographs. These photographs were taken on his expeditions along the Papuan coast and hinterland between 1920 and 1923) (Keywords: Ethnology, photography, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Port Moresby, Lake Murray, Fly River, Aramia River, Papuan Gulf).
Book Code: R541 AU$250
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Speiser, Felix. TWO YEARS WITH NATIVES IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC. Sketches written during his voyage. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1913. Pp: xii, 291; 220mm x 140mm; 0.68kg. 40 b/w, 2 maps(pl). Preface. A good copy in orginal green-cloth boards. Cvr: g. (wear on corners and bottom of spine). Mills and Boon Limited, London, 1913. (This book is a collection of sketches written during the author's voyage to New Caledonia and Vanuatu in the period 1910 to 1912. The photographs are of the local people and village life and ceremony) (Keywords: Cultural background, Pacific, Melanesia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, New Hebrides).
Book Code: N211 SOLD - now out of stock AU$180
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Detail of wrapper - SORCERER AND WITCH IN MELANESIA - Sorcery, sacred power, witchcraft, warfare, and social order (stephen1p 145/226 STEP01)
Stephen, Michele (editor). SORCERER AND WITCH IN MELANESIA. Sorcery, sacred power, witchcraft, warfare, and social order. BNo. 0-522-84319-0. First Edition, 1987. Pp: x, 310; 215mm x 135mm; 0.56kg. 10 b/w, 1 tab, 2 maps. Acknowledgments, introduction, contributors, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, 1987. (Seven distinguished scholars provide descriptive and analytical studies of sorcery and witchcraft in seven varied Papuan New Guinea communities) (Keywords: Anthropology, cultural history, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Mekeo, Highlands, Kove, Kwoma).
Book Code: D007 AU$38
Note: Contributors and essays are:
(p. 17) Lawrence, Peter - De Rerum Natura: the Garia Vieww of Sorcery; (p. 41) Stephen, Michele - Master of Souls: the Mekeo Sorcerer; (p. 83) Reay, Marie - The Magico-Religious Foundations of New Guinea Highlands Warfare; (p. 121) Sillitoe, Paul - Sorcery Divination among the Wola; (p. 149) Chowning, Ann - Sorcery and the Social Order in Kove; (p. 183) Bowden, Ross - Sorcery, Illness and Social Control in Kwoma Society; (p. 211) Riebe, Inge - Kalam Witchcraft: A Historical Perspective; (p. 249) Stephen, Michele - Contrasting Images of Power;
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Detail of wrapper - THE ROPE OF MOKA - Big-Men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen, New Guinea. (strathern4p 155/230 STRA04)
Strathern, Andrew. THE ROPE OF MOKA. Big-Men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen, New Guinea. BNo. 0-521-07987-X. First Edition, 1971. Pp: xvi, 254; 225mm x 150mm; 0.60kg. 8 b/w, 21 fig, 29 tab, 3 maps. Preface, abbreviations, orthography, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (pastedown of H. Ian Hogbin on fep). Cambridge University Press, London, 1971. (The author presents a full length account of Moka which is a competitive ceremonial exchange of wealth objects) (Keywords: Anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Highlands).
Book Code: N321 SOLD - now out of stock AU$65
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Detail of wrap - THE ROPE OF MOKA - Big-Men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen, New Guinea. (strathern04ap 150/223 STRA04a)
Strathern, Andrew. THE ROPE OF MOKA. Big-Men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen, New Guinea. BNo.0-521-09957-9. First Edition, 1975 (1971) (pb). Pp: xvi, 254; 225mm x 150mm; 0.40kg. 8 b/w, 21 fig, 29 tab, 3 maps. Preface, abbreviations, orthography, bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (minor wear on wrp). Cambridge University Press, London, 1975. (The author presents a full length account of Moka which is a competitive ceremonial exchange of wealth objects) (Keywords: Anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Highlands).
Book Code: N351 AU$35
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Tuzin, Donald F. THE ILAHITA ARAPESH. Dimensions of Unity. BNo. 0-520-02860-0. First Edition, 1976. Pp: xxxv, 376; 225mm x 150mm; 0.74kg. 20 b/w, 24 fig, 20 tab, 3 maps. Foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, appendices A to E, bibliography, index. A very good hardback copy. Cvr: vg. (lacks dw). University of California Press, Berkeley, 1976. (The author examines the interrelated problems of settlement size and societal scale in lowlands New Guinea. The case in point is Ilahita, an Arapesh village of some 1500 inhabitants located in a landlocked portion of the East Sepik District) (Keywords: Anthropology, social culture, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Arapesh).
Book Code: H105 AU$25
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Detail of front cover of ISLAND ANCESTORS - Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection (wardwell6p 150/206)
Wardwell, Allen & Dirk Bakker. ISLAND ANCESTORS. Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection. BNo. 0-295-97330-7. First Edition 1994 (pb). Pp: xiv, 282; 305mm x 225mm; 1.39kg. 144 col, 2 maps. Foreword, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, index. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (wear on wrp). University of Washington Press, Washington, 1994. (The 107 objects illustrated in this book come from three Oceanic culture areas of Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia, as well as the continent of Australia. The author reviews the histories of the island groups, their settlement following migrations from Asia, their societies, and the philosophies and aesthetics that give context to artistic styles and techniques that identify each culture) (Keywords: Ethnology, Papua New Guinea, Sepik, Boiken, Yuat, Trobriand, Kerewa, Solomon, Caledonia, Fiji, Austral, Marquesas, Hawaii, Arnhem Land).
Book Code: Q194 AU$65
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Detail of front cover of WOMEN OF VALUE - MEN OF RENOWN (weiner2p 150/222)
Weiner, Annette B. WOMEN OF VALUE, MEN OF RENOWN. New Perspectives in the Trobriand Exchange. BNo. 0-7022-0384-X. First Edition, 1977. Pp: xxi, 229; 230mm x 150mm; 0.66kg. 20 b/w, 22 fig, 2 tab, 2 maps. Acknowledgments, introduction, appendix 1 to 3, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Queensland, 1977. (This book is a study of women, men, and exchanges of wealth in the Trobriand Islands. It follows the entire life cycle, from birth to marriage to death to rebirth and regeneration) (Keywords: Anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, Trobriand Islands, Kwaibwaga).
Book Code: N734 SOLD - now out of stock AU$35
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Williams, F.E. DRAMA OF OROKOLO. The Social and Ceremonial Life of the Elema. BNo. n/a. Reprint Edition, 1969 (1940) Pp: xxvi, 464; 215mm x 140mm; 1.09kg. 63 b/w, 21 fig, 3 tab, 2 maps. Foreword, preface, acknowledgments, appendix, glossary, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Oxford University Press, London, 1969. (The theme of this book is a cycle of ceremonies, called Hevehe, which belong to the Papuan people of the Papuan Gulf. It is carried through with much primitive magnificence and on such a scale that its many stages, like the acts of an immense drama, may stretch over a period of more than fifteen years. The introduction and Part I are devoted to a general description of its natural and social settings. In Part II the ceremonies are narrated, with constant references to their social, magico-religious and aesthetic aspects. Attention to minute detail and the tracing of connections between the cycle and other phases of the people's life serves to display a primitive culture in full working. Part III is an analysis of the Hevehe as an institution. This leads to certain conclusions regarding the Elema culture. The author evaluates the native institutions in terms of the human needs which they satisfy and the potentialities to which they give scope) (Keywords: Anthropology, ethnology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Papua, Hevehe, Elema).
Book Code: L602 SOLD - now out of stock AU$150
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Detail of wrapper - PAPUANS OF THE TRANS-FLY (williams5p 150/228 WILL5)
Williams, F. E. PAPUANS OF THE TRANS-FLY. Fifteenth in the series published by Papuan Government. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1936 (pmb). Pp: xxxvi, 452; 215mm x 140mm; 0.85kg. 30 b/w(pl), 3 fig. Preface, introduction, notes, appendices I to IV, index. A good copy in dust wrapper (map not included in this PNG binding (copy loosely inserted)). Cvr: g; dw: vg. (minor marks on cvr). Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, London, 1936. (This book, which gives an all-round account of the people in the far west of Papua, is the result of 10 months' work in the field divided into five periods between 1926 and 1932. The purpose of the book was primarily to give an account of native life as it was in the early 1930s covering such people as the Gambadi, Semariji, Keraki, Mikud, Wiram, Aram, Anima, Boigu and Marind-Anim. Material culture is described and illustrated, and Dr Buxton has furnished an appendix analysing a series of physical measurements) (Keywords: Anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Gambadi, Semariji, Keraki, Mikud, Wiram, Marind-Anim).
Book Code: E497 SOLD - now out of stock AU$245
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Wingert, Paul S. (editor). OCEANIC ARTS. University Prints - Series N, Section II. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1988 (pb). Pp: (ii), N151 to N275, (vi); 140mm x 205mm; 0.45kg. 140 b/w, 2 maps. Outline-index (in envelope at rear). A very good copy with card cover and spiral bound. Cvr: vg. The University Prints, Winchester, Massachusetts, 1988. (This publication is a visual survey of cultural artefacts from Oceania, the range including Batak mask from Sumatra to house-post figure from Marquesas and Palau inlaid bowl to Maori war canoe) (Keywords: Ethnology, Indonesia, Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia).
Book Code: M510 AU$80
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