Pacific Islands Monograph Series – serie
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Strangers in Their Own Land
A Century of Colonial Rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands
Häftad, 2003
369 kr
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This is a summary of colonial rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands.
Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaitan ""Kastom
Inbunden, 2013
688 kr
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This book is a political history of the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1927, when the last violent resistance to colonial rule was crushed, to 1953 and the inauguration of the island’s first representative political body, the Malaita Council. At the book’s heart …
Kanak Awakening
The Rise of Nationalism in New Caledonia
Inbunden, 2013
712 kr
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In 1853, France annexed the Melanesian islands of New Caledonia to establish a convict colony and strategic port of call. Unlike other European settler–dominated countries in the Pacific, the territory’s indigenous people remained more numerous than immigrants for over a century. Despite military …
God Is Samoan
Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific
Av Matt Tomlinson, Tarcisius Kabutaulaka
Häftad, 2020
302 kr
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Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the work of "contextual theologians", exploring how the combination of Pacific Islands culture and …
Sweat and Salt Water
Selected Works
Av Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa, Katerina Teaiwa m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1034 kr
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On 21 March 2017, Associate Professor Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa passed away at the age of forty-eight. News of Teaiwa's death precipitated an extraordinary outpouring of grief unmatched in the Pacific studies community since Epeli Hau'ofa's passing in 2009. Mourners referenced Teaiwa's nurturing …
Sweat and Salt Water
Selected Works
Av Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa, Katerina Teaiwa m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
328 kr
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On 21 March 2017, Associate Professor Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa passed away at the age of forty-eight. News of Teaiwa's death precipitated an extraordinary outpouring of grief unmatched in the Pacific studies community since Epeli Hau'ofa's passing in 2009. Mourners referenced Teaiwa's nurturing …
Colonial Dis-Ease
US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898-1941
Häftad, 2023
311 kr
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A variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions—sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex—resulted from the U.S. Navy’s introduction of Western health and sanitation practices to Guam’s native population. In Colonial Dis-Ease, Anne Perez Hattori examines early twentieth-century …
My Land, My Life
Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire
Av Siobhan McDonnell, Tarcisius Kabutaulaka
Inbunden, 2023
797 kr
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Throughout Oceania, land is central to identity because it is understood to be spiritually nourishing and sustaining. Land is the mother. Land, and the kinship it nurtures, is the basis for sustaining livelihoods and ways of life. Therefore, Indigenous dispossession from the land has deep and …
My Land, My Life
Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire
Av Siobhan McDonnell, Tarcisius Kabutaulaka
Häftad, 2025
337 kr
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Throughout Oceania, land is central to identity because it is understood to be spiritually nourishing and sustaining. Land is the mother. Land, and the kinship it nurtures, is the basis for sustaining livelihoods and ways of life. Therefore, Indigenous dispossession from the land has deep and …
First Taint of Civilization
A History of the Caroline and Marshall Islands in Pre-Colonial Days, 1521-1885
Häftad, 1994
326 kr
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Guardians of Marovo Lagoon
Inbunden, 1996
331 kr
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In Hviding's case, the gap between the social and natural sciences is bridged as he deftly draws on conceptual frameworks from social and cultural anthropology, cultural ecology, history, and marine biology. As he tells the story of the people of Marovo Lagoon in New Georgia in the western Solomon …
My Gun, My Brother
The World of the Papua New Guinea Colonial Police, 1920-1960
Inbunden, 1998
413 kr
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Despite the heated competition for colonial possessions in Papua New Guinea during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the personnel required to run an effective administration were scarce. As a result, the Australian colonial regime opted for a quick solution - it engaged Papua New Guineans, often …
Law and Order in a Weak State
Crime and Politics in Papa New Guinea
Inbunden, 2000
359 kr
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Twenty-five years after independence, Papa New Guinea is beset by social, economic, and political problems: poverty and inequality, and corruption and rising crime, for example. This work examines these problems of order in light of Papa New Guinea's social diversity.
Honorable Accord
The Covenant Between the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States
Av Howard P. Willens, Deanne C. Siemer
Inbunden, 2001
645 kr
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In 1975, after three centuries of colonial rule, the people of the Northern Marianas exercised their right of self-determination to become US citizens in a self-governing commonwealth under U.S. sovereignty. This title is an account of their tenacious efforts to shape a political future separate …
Imagining the Other
The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject
Inbunden, 2007
640 kr
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Much has been written about Papua New Guinea over the last century and too often in ways that legitimated or served colonial interests through highly pejorative and racist descriptions of Papua New Guineans. Paying special attention to early travel literature, works of fiction, and colonial …
Colonial Dis-ease
U.S. Navy and Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898-1941
Inbunden, 2004
558 kr
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A variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions - sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex - resulted from the U.S. navy's introduction of Western health and sanitation practices to Guam's native population. In Colonial Dis-Ease, Anne Perez Hattori examines early …
Songs from the Second Float
A Musical Ethnography of Taku Atoll, Papua New Guinea
Inbunden, 2007
659 kr
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This book, based on fieldwork spanning a decade, gives a comprehensive analysis of the musical life of a unique Polynesian community whose geographical isolation, together with a local ban on missionaries and churches, combine to allow its 600 members to maintain a level of traditional cultural …
Jean-Marie Tjibaou, Kanak Witness to the World
An Intellectual Biography
Av Eric Waddell
Inbunden, 2008
665 kr
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Jean-Marie Tjibaou is arguably the most important post-World War II Oceanic leader. His intellectual abilities, acute understanding of both Melanesian and European civilizations, stature as a statesman, commitment to nonviolence, and vision for Melanesia's potential contributions to the global …
Other Side
Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu
Inbunden, 2008
598 kr
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The Other Side is the first major ethnographic and historical study of the Sia Raga people of north Pentecost Island, a region that was home to the late Father Walter Lini, Vanuatu's first prime minister. Exploring Raga social, spatial, and historical consciousness, this richly poetic account …
Jean-Marie Tjibaou, Kanak Witness to the World
An Intellectual Biography
Av Eric Waddell
Häftad, 2008
290 kr
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Jean-Marie Tjibaou is arguably the most important post-World War II Oceanic leader. His intellectual abilities, acute understanding of both Melanesian and European civilizations, stature as a statesman, commitment to nonviolence, and vision for Melanesia's potential contributions to the global …
Cultures of Commemoration
The Politics of War, Memory, and History in the Mariana Islands
Häftad, 2011
282 kr
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Winner of the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial PrizeIn 1941 the Japanese military attacked the US naval base Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu. Although much has been debated about this event and the wider American and Japanese involvement in the war, few scholars have explored the Pacific War’s …
Remaking Pacific Pasts
History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania
Av Diana Looser
Häftad, 2023
311 kr
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Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Although many Pacific Island cultures have a broad range of highly developed indigenous performance forms—including oral narrative, clowning, ritual, dance, and song—scripted drama is a relatively recent …
