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Detail of wrap - TAIM BIPO
Taylor, Lance (compiler). TAIM BIPO. The Disappearing Traditions and Practices of Papua New Guinea. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1988 (pb). Pp: (188); 260mm x 245mm; 0.70kg. 180 illus, 1 map. Foreword, introduction. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Sogeri National High School, Port Moresby, 1988. (Changing traditions and practices as seen through the eyes of young Sogeri artists) (Keywords: Contemporary art, Pacific, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, folklore).
Book Code: C112 AU$50
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Thomas, Nicholas. OCEANIC ART. World of Art Series. BNo. 0-500-20281-8. First Edition,1995 (pb). Pp: 216; 210mm x 150mm; 0.52kg. 26 col, 153 b/w, 3 maps. Introduction, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1995. (The author, in looking at and beyond the familiar surfaces of spears and shields, carved canoe prows and feather capes, discovers the signifiance of art, past and present, for the people of the Pacific) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Polynesia, Melanesia, New Guinea, Iatmul, Nguzunguzu, Solomon Islands, Marquesas, Maori).
Book Code: H008 AU$18
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Detail of front wrap of A DISTANT PLACE - A DIFFERENT VOICE - Twenty Years in Papua New Guinea. (turner1p 170/136 TURN1)
Turner, Susan (photographer). A DISTANT PLACE - A DIFFERENT VOICE. Twenty Years in Papua New Guinea. BNo. 0-9722908-1-8. First Edition, 2003 (pb). Pp: 40; 240mm x 295mm; 0.35kg. 37 duotone. Introduction. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Futura Press, North Hollywood, California, 2003. (Susan Turner has spent fourteen of the past twenty years living in Papua New Guinea. Living as she has among the indigenous peoples, her view is much more from the inside than the outside. These black and white photographs reach far beyond a visitor's curiosity or a researcher's ethnography as Turner's subjects become gracious and natural collaborators) (Keywords: Photography, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, indigenous people, traditional life).
Book Code: S206 AU$26
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Detail of wrapper - AN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN MELANESIA (Volume I) (welsch01ap 170/224 WELS01) Detail of wrapper - AN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN MELANESIA (Volume II) (welsch01bp 170/224 WELS01)
Welsch, Robert L. (editor). AN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN MELANESIA. A.B. Lewis and Joseph N. Field South Pacific Expedition 1909-1913.Vol.I - Field Diaries and Vol.II - Appendices. BNo. 0-8248-1644-7. First Edition, 1998. Pp: (xxi, 633), (287); 280mm x 215mm; 3.28kg. 418 b/w, 43 fig, 5 tab, 12 maps. Preface, textual note, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index. Very good copies in dust wrappers. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1998. (These volumes present the diaries Lewis kept while travelling through Melanesia as an anthropological researcher for Chicago's Field Museum and they reveal the difficulties he overcame in order to assemble the collection of artefacts now housed in the museum) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Humboldt Bay, New Britain, Huon Gulf, Gazelle Peninsula, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Papua).
Book Code: L143 AU$200
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Detail of front wrap - THE EMPTY PLACE (west03bp 145/217 WEIN03)
Weiner, James F. THE EMPTY PLACE. Poetry, Space, and Being among the Foi of Papua New Guinea. BNo.0-253-36382-9. First Edition, 1991 (pb). Pp: xvi, 219; 230mm x 150mm; 0.35kg. 12 b/w, 8 fig, 4 maps. Foi orthography, acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (minor wear on wrp). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 1991. (The Foi are located in the Lake Kutubu area in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and neighbouring people include the Wola and Mendi to the North. In this book the author describes a nexus of Foi discourse that includes their geography and spatial relationships, their existential confrontation with death, their architecture and dwellings, iconism of the Foi language, their poetry, song, magic, and performance) (Keywords: Anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Foi, language, ritual).
Book Code: U152 AU$23
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Williams, F.E. OROKAIVA MAGIC. Three studies: The Taro Cult; The Garden Culture of the Orokaiva; and Orokaiva Magic. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1928 Pp: xii, 232; 215mm x 135mm; 0.63kg. 7 b/w, 1 fig. Foreword, glossary, index. A good copy in dust wrapper (preface, contents page and map not bound into this PNG edition). Cvr: g; dw: g. (photocopies of missing pages and map loosely inserted). Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, London, 1928. (The author provides three studies in regard to agriculture, cults and magic. The first looks into a taro cult which was to do with the use of spirits and ample crops in the taro gardens. The second is about the administration's attempt to improve the garden culture of the Orokaiva and, the last study deals with the procedures of magic, the magical symbol and the logic and fear of magic among the Orokaiva) (Keywords: Folklore, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Papua).
Book Code: C438 SOLD - now out of stock AU$195
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Detail of front wrapper - ART OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS (wingert04bp 160/213 WING04)
Wingert, Paul S. ART OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS. Indonesia, Melanesia, Australia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1953. Pp: 110; 255mm x 190mm; 0.66kg. 102 col, 22 fig, 3 maps. Preface, acknowledgments, bibliography, catalogue. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (minor wear on dw & cvr). Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1953. (This book examines South Pacific Art against the ethnic and cultural backgrounds of the five regions and traces both the common denominator and their different manifestations in the individual regions) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, Batak, Sumatra, Leti, Kenyah-Kayan, Igorot, Nukuoro, Asmat, Sentani, Korovar, Admiralty Islands, Malagan, Massim, Austral, New Caledonia).
Book Code: E059 AU$95
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Wingert, Paul S. OUTLINE GUIDE TO THE ART OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1946. Pp: (x), 63+23; 230mm x 150mm; 0.35kg. 23 b/w, 2 maps. Introduction, selected bibliography, appendix. A good hardback copy with illustrated boards. Cvr: g. (minor wear at corners). Columbia University Press, New York, 1946. (Brief sections give an introduction to each major area and island group historical and geographical data, a description of the indigenous people, and the distinctive elements of the culture) (Keywords: Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia).
Book Code: E500 SOLD - now out of stock AU$65
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Detail of dust wrapper of AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN PAPUA
Young, Michael W. & Julia Clark. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN PAPUA. The Photography of F.E. Williams, 1922-1939. BNo. 1-86333-200-6. First Edition, 2001. Pp: x, 307; 260mm x 210mm; 1.45kg. 235 b/w, 9 maps. Foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, endnotes, photo sources, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Crawford House Publishing, Hindmarsh, South Australia, 2001. (This book is a pictorial celebration of the work of a brilliant ethnographer. F.E. Williams was one of the most talented and productive anthropologists of his generation. He spent twenty years as Government Anthropologist in the Australian Territory of Papua. A substantial introductory essay provides the biographical, historical and anthropological contexts of William's ethnographic and photographic achievements) (Keywords: Anthropology, cultural history, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Papua).
Book Code: P028 AU$70
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