The Bounty from the Beach

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• The Bounty from the Beach is a collection of cross-disciplinary essays, capitalising on a widely shared fascination for the Bounty story in order to d... Lees meer

Talking it Through

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• Sorcery and witchcraft practices and beliefs are pervasive across Melanesia. They are in part created by, and give rise to, a wide variety of poor soc... Lees meer

Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands

Aidan Craney

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• Fiji, Solomon Islands and the wider Pacific region are experiencing a 'youth bulge'. As such, the livelihoods pathways of youth in these countries wil... Lees meer

A Doctor Across Borders

Alexander Cameron-Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• In his day, Raphael Cilento was one of the most prominent and controversial figures in Australian medicine. As a senior medical officer in the Commonw... Lees meer

Transformations of Gender in Melanesia

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvan... Lees meer

Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• Over the last two decades, civil society has helped catalyse responses to the legacies of violent conflicts and oppressive political regimes in Asia a... Lees meer

Honiara

Clive Moore

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• Nahona`ara-means 'facing the `ara', the place where the southeast winds meet the land just west of Point Cruz. Nahona`ara became Honiara, the capital ... Lees meer

The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• The moral economy of mobile phones implies a field of shifting relations among consumers, companies and state actors, all of whom have their own ideas... Lees meer

Suva Stories

Nicholas Halter

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• Suva Stories explores a fascinating tapestry of histories in one of the Pacific's oldest and most culturally diverse urban centres, the capital of Fij... Lees meer

Understanding Oceania

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• This book is inspired by the University of the South Pacific, the leading institution of higher education in the Pacific Islands region. Founded in 19... Lees meer

Australian Travellers in the South Seas

Nicholas Halter

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 h... Lees meer

Mobilities of Return

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• In recent decades, the term 'mobility' has emerged as a defining paradigm within the humanities. For scholars engaged in the multidisciplinary topics ... Lees meer

Pacific Youth

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• Pacific populations are becoming younger and this 'youth bulge' is often perceived as a dangerous precursor to civil unrest. Yet young people are also... Lees meer

The Federated States of Micronesia's Engagement with the Outside World

Gonzaga Puas

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• This study addresses the neglected history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia's (FSM) engagement with the outside world. Situated in ... Lees meer

The Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland

Martyn Bennett

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• This book provides a fresh perspective on one of the most complex and turbulent periods in the history of the British Isles. Setting the experience of... Lees meer

The Rahui

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• This collection deals with an ancient institution in Eastern Polynesia called the rahui, a form of restricting access to resources and/or territories.... Lees meer

Making Mala

Clive Moore

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• Malaita is one of the major islands in the Solomons Archipelago and has the largest population in the Solomon Islands nation. Its people have an undes... Lees meer

The Promise of Prosperity

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• For the people of Timor-Leste, independence promised a fundamental transformation from foreign occupation to self-rule, from brutality to respect for ... Lees meer

Tulagi

Clive Moore

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• Tulagi was the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate between 1897 and 1942. The British withdrawal from the island during the Pacific Wa... Lees meer

The people have spoken

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• The September 2014 elections in Fiji was one of the most anticipated in the history of the country, coming after eight years of military rule and unde... Lees meer

Ma`afu, prince of Tonga, chief of Fiji

John Spurway

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• Enele Ma`afu, son of Aleamotu`a, Tu`i Kanokupolu, grew up during a time of unprecedented social and political change in Tonga following the advent of ... Lees meer

Contested Terrain

Steven Ratuva

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• Contested Terrain provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive and innovative approach to critically analysing the multidimensional and contested nature of ... Lees meer

Unequal Lives

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal L... Lees meer

Sinuous Objects

• Paperback | Engels | Pacific
• Some 40 years ago, Pacific anthropology was dominated by debates about 'women's wealth'. These exchanges were generated by Annette Weiner's (1976) cri... Lees meer