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1	The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea more books like this by Annette B Weiner add to wishlist A re-examination of the Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea, the people described in Malinowski's classic ethnographic work of the early 20th century. Provides a balanced view of the society from a male and female perspective, including new discoveries about the importance of women's work and wealth in the society. see all copies from $10.04! new only from $31.97! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific more books like this by James Campbell add to wishlist This harrowing portrait of the terrifying Battle for New Guinea--the forgotten war of the South Pacific--is part war diary, part extreme adventure tale, and part biography of a group of men who fought to survive in an environment every bit as fierce as the enemy they faced. see all copies from $2.90! new only from $5.71! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Where Masks Still Dance: New Guinea more books like this by Chris Rainier, Meg Taylor (Adapted by) add to wishlist New Guinea is home to more than a 1000 Stone Age tribes, each with its own language, customs and folklore which have changed little in 40,000 years. In eight trips over ten years, photographer Chris Rainier has travelled to the island to document the lives and rituals of the indigenous peoples. The result is this photographic record, showing the ... see all copies from $29.00! new only from $163.99! \| first editions
4	Mister Pip more books like this by Lloyd Jones add to wishlist An inventive and original novel from this multi-award-winning author. Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Mathilda attends the school set up by Mr Watts, the only white man on the island. By his own admission he's not much of a teacher and proceeds to educate the children by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World more books like this by Bruce M Knauft, Knauft Bruce add to wishlist What is it like for a native people of the rainforest to confront features of a modern world? In 1980-82, the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea held elaborate ritual dances and spirit seances, practiced alternative sexual customs, and endured a very high rate of violence. By 1998, however, most Gebusi had been willingly transformed by Christian ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.29! \| SVS
6	Patterns of Culture more books like this by Ruth Benedict add to wishlist For more than a generation, this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an integrated whole, a "personality writ large". Includes a preface from Margaret Mead. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.48! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Sex and temperament in three primitive societies more books like this by Margaret Mead add to wishlist This precursor to Mead's illuminating work, Male & Female, Sex & Temperament lays the groundwork for her lifelong study of gender differences. Focusing on three distinctly different tribes from New Guinea, Mead advances the theory that many so-called masculine and feminine characteristics are not based on fundamental sex differences, but reflect ... see all copies from $2.39! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	In Search of the Source: A First Encounter with God's Word more books like this by Neil T Anderson, Hyatt Moore, Larry R Libby (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95!
9	Argonauts of the Western Pacific more books like this by Bronislaw Malinowski add to wishlist Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. see all copies from $4.79! new only from $28.19! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II more books like this by Bruce Gamble add to wishlist At 2.30 am on January 23, 1942, the little-known tropical island of New Britain was the site of the Australian Army's darkest hour. Lark Force, 1,400 men and six nurses, the bulk of them from 2/22nd Infantry Battalion, had been deployed to fortify and defend Rabaul, the capital of Australia's mandated territories. The Japanese had other plans.. see all copies from $5.53! new only from $13.45! \| first editions \| SVS
11	High Valley more books like this by Kenneth E Read add to wishlist -- Hobart M. Van Deusen, Natural History see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	Elixir more books like this by Gary Braver add to wishlist Biologist Christopher Bacon returns from the New Guinea rainforests with a flower rumored to prevent aging. As he conducts his research on the flower's extract in his Boston lab, Chris finds that the test animals are not only rejuvenated, but they stop aging altogether. Soon, Chris finds himself tampering with nature, and the consequences are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self, and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village more books like this by Don Kulick add to wishlist Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction is a fascinating anthropological study of language and cultural change among the villagers of Gapun, in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. Despite their strong attachment to their own language as a source of identity and as a tie to their lands, people are abandoning their vernacular in favour of Tok ... see all copies from $14.96! new only from $28.50! \| SVS
14 view cover	May: Traditional Pottery Papua CL more books like this by Patricia May, Margaret Tuckson add to wishlist This book is the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the traditional pottery of Papua New Guinea ever produced. The authors have made a thorough analysis of pottery-making throughout Papua New Guinea based on eight years of field work. They proffer a first-hand account of clay preparation, pottery formation, and firing techniques, ... see all copies from $9.98! new only from $16.60!
15 view cover	Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: 22 July 1942-1 May 1944 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist This volume in Captain Morison's great history of naval action during World War II is concerned with the continuation of Operation "Watchtower" up from Guadalcanal and New Guinea until Rabaul was taken the the Bismarcks Barrier broken. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $23.00!
16 view cover	Monday Morning Faith more books like this by Lori Copeland add to wishlist The New Guinea jungle holds many fascinations, but not for librarian Johanna Holland. Johanna is simply aghast at the lack of hot showers and clothing. She is positive the mission field is most certainly not God's plan for her life, but will that mean letting go of the man she loves? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
17 view cover	Collaborations and Conflicts: A Leader Through Time more books like this by Andrew Strathern, Ongka, Pamela J Stewart add to wishlist This is a uniquely dramatic account of life in the Papua New Guinea Highlands as told by a well-known leader of the Kawelka people of Mount Hagen. Set into context with a contemporary introduction that discusses the usefulness of biography in anthropology, the case study presents the already well-known autobiography of Ongka, a leader who ... see all copies from $4.77! new only from $37.87! \| first editions
18 view cover	Question of Yams more books like this by Gloria Repp, Karen Daniels (Editor), Roger Bruckner (Illustrator) add to wishlist After his father plants the family yam garden without praying to the ancestor spirits, Kuri, a young boy on Papua New Guinea, wonders if he should follow the advice of the Christian missionaries and trust in their God. see all copies from $2.24! new only from $7.24! \| SVS
19 view cover	Mission Possible: The Story of a Wycliffe Missionary more books like this by Marilyn Laszlo, Luci Tumas add to wishlist Laszlo and Tumas tell the story of a Wycliffe translator in the jungles of New Guinea and her relentless efforts to bring the Word of God into the Sepik Iwam language. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918 more books like this by Michael W Young, Bronislaw Malinowski (Photographer) add to wishlist This text presents nearly 200 of Bronislaw Malinowski's photographs, taken between 1915 and 1918, of the Trobriand Islanders. Michael Young, an anthropologist and Malinowski's authorized biographer, has selected the photographs based on one of Malinowski's studies of the region, and the plan of that abandoned project has helped structure this book ... see all copies from $36.95! new only from $36.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education more books like this by Margaret Mead add to wishlist Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in Growing Up in New Guinea, detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fishing village at a pivotal time -- after ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Give and Take of Everyday Life: Language Socialization of Kaluli Children more books like this by Bambi B Schieffelin add to wishlist In this study of language socialization among the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea, Bambi B. Schieffelin examines the everyday speech activities between children and members of their families, linking them to other social practices and symbolic forms such as exchange systems, gender roles, sibling relationships, rituals and myths. In Kaluli ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.23! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Lost Drum: The Myth of Sexuality in Papua New Guinea and Beyond more books like this by James F Weiner add to wishlist This text provides a theoretical experiment in anthropology and an analysis of myth and ritual in Papua New Guinea societies. Fashioning an anthropological method from psychoanalytic theories, it uncovers a discourse on sexuality, consumption, voice and subjectivity. see all copies from $2.59! new only from $4.63! \| first editions
24 view cover	New Ireland: Ritual Arts of Oceania in the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum more books like this by Mus Ee Barbier-M Uller, Michael Gunn, Pierre-Alain Ferrazzini (Photographer) add to wishlist New Ireland, a long and fertile land in island Melanesia, has been the source of some of the most remarkable artworks to come out of the Pacific region. It has been inhabited by humans for at least 33,000 years, and although there is very little evidence to show how long New Irelanders have been producing works of art, it is likely that the ... see all copies from $24.92! new only from $33.50! \| first editions
25 view cover	Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts: Representing the Chambri in the World System more books like this by Deborah B Gewertz, Frederick K Errington add to wishlist Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington have worked as anthropologists in Papua New Guinea for nearly two decades. In this, their second joint study of the Chambri, they consider the way those in a small-scale society, peripheral to the major centres of influence, struggle to sustain some degree of autonomy. They describe the Chambri caught up in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS

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