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9781921536786

A Bird That Flies With Two Wings Kastom and state justice systems in Vanuatu

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Author: Miranda Forsyth

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Dop 2009, Australia
softcover

This book investigates the problems and possibilities of plural legal orders through an in-depth study of the relationship between the state and customary justice systems in Vanuatu. It argues that there is a need to move away from the current state-centric approach to law reform in the South Pacific region, and instead include all state and non-state legal orders in development strategies and dialogue. The book also presents a typology of models of engagement between state and non-state legal systems, and describes a process for analysing which of these models would be most advantageous for any country in the South Pacific region, and beyond.

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9781742231099

Captain Cook's War and Peace: The Royal Navy Years 1755-1768

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Author: John Robson

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Why was James Cook chosen to lead the Endeavour expedition to the Pacific in 1768? In a period when who you were and who you knew counted for more than ability, Cook, through his own skills and application, rose up through the ranks of the Navy to become a remarkable seaman of whom men of influence took notice; Generals such as Wolfe and politicians like Lord Egmont took his advice and recognised his qualities. During this period, Cook added surveying, astronomical and cartographic skills to those of seamanship and navigation. He was in the thick of the action at the siege of Quebec during the Seven Years War, was the master of 400 men, and learned first-hand the need for healthy crews. By 1768, Cook was supremely qualified to captain the Endeavour. Highly readable and presenting much new research, this is an important new book for Cook scholars and armchair explorers alike.

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9781846450105

Competing Voices from the Pacific War

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NZ$ 140.00 each

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Author: Sean Brawley

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Dop 2009, USA
hardcover

The Pacific War was an example of 'total war,' and a proper understanding of it (including its profound and lasting political, strategic, and social consequences) requires an examination of Japanese, as well as Allied perspectives - both presented here for the first time. Covering the period from July 1937 (when Japanese and Chinese forces clashed at the Marco Polo Bridge) to the signing of the Japanese surrender in September 1945, and touching on the post-war Allied occupation of Japan, the collection will feature extracts from American, Japanese, Australian, Chinese and British sources.

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9781598743463

Consequential Damages of Nuclear War

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Author: Barbara Rose Johnston

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Dop 2008, USA
softcover
296pp

The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce a $1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues of bioethics, government secrecy, human rights, military testing, and academic activism. The report, reproduced here with accompanying materials, should be read by everyone concerned with the effects of nuclear war and is an essential text for courses in history, environmental studies, bioethics, human rights, and related ... more

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9780957731530

Dictionary of Polynesian Plant Names

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NZ$ 359.00 each

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Author: Karl H. Rensch

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DoP - revised edition 2009
250x170mm /723pp
Softcover

This dictionary is a lexical documentation of Polynesian plant names based on the sources available at present. The project was conceived and carried out with linguists and botanists in mind.

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9780958234573

Following a South Seas Dream: August Engelhardt and the Sonnenorden

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NZ$ 42.00 each

Author: Sven Morter

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Dop 2008, Auckland
151pp
softcover

What have coconuts to do with 'Kaisers'? Sven Mönter's meticulously researched account of the ill-fated 'Sonnenorden' (Order of the Sun), a small group of sun-worshipping, solely coconut-eating nudists who existed briefly [on the tiny island Kabakon in the Neu Lauenburg (Duke of York) Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago] in early 20th-century German New Guinea, supplies the answer. From this apparent blip on the historical record, Mönter draws out a series of thought-provoking connections to broader questions: the diverse and ambivalent reactions of German citizens to Wilhelminian rule, the origins and influence of the German 'Südseetraum' (South Seas Dream), and the realities of life for settlers in Germany's Pacific colonies" -

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9781921536601

Food and Agriculture in Papua New Guinea

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NZ$ 180.00 each

Author: edited by R. Michael Bourke and Tracy Harwood

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dop 2009, Asutralia

Agriculture dominates the rural economy of Papua New Guinea (PNG). More than five million rural dwellers (80% of the population) earn a living from subsistence agriculture and selling crops in domestic and international markets.

Many aspects of agriculture in PNG are described in this data-rich book. Topics include agricultural environments in which crops are grown; production of food crops, cash crops and animals; land use; soils; demography; migration; the macro-economic environment; gender issues; governance of agricultural institutions; and transport. The history of agriculture over the 50 000 years that PNG has been occupied by humans is summarised. Much of the information presented is not readily available within PNG. The book contains results of many new analyses, including a food budget for the entire nation. The text is supported by 165 tables and 215 maps and figures.

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9780313339509

Going to School in Oceania

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Author: Craig Campbell

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Dop 2007, USA
hardcover

This volume represents the first major effort to write an overview of the history of education in the South West Pacific. The region contains countries as disparate as Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Samoa, but there are connections between the histories of schooling in these nations. Most of the school systems, institutions and educational practices discussed in this volume arose as a result of mainly European or 'western' economic, missionary and imperial activity in this part of the Pacific world. However, indigenous peoples also educated their communities before and after the introduction and adaptation of western forms of schooling. This volume demonstrates the diverse educational experiences and histories of the countries of Oceania.

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9780910043793

Islands Linked by Ocean

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NZ$ 40.00 each

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Author: Lisa Linn Kanae

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DoP 2009, HAwaii
86pp
Softcover

From the author of "Sista Tongue" come stories written with humor and compassion for characters who find themselves at crossroad moments where past informs present, young teach old, and love can mean holding on or letting go. In "The Steersman", a novice paddler shares her tempestuous yet life-affirming introduction to the tradition of outrigger canoe paddling: 'In the canoe, we were nameless. We were numbers, and when we weren't numbers, we were random expletives - scrub, donkey, idiot, stupid, jackass, lame ass, dumb ass'. In "Born Again Hawaiian", a young husband discovers how the personal impacts the political when his activist wife shows him how he must fight for what he loves most. And what happens when three local women take in the opera? 'Dat suckah Pavarotti - he get um'. The stories in this collection are familiar, like family. And like the father and daughter in the title story, the ... more

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9781921313899

Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, Seafaring and the Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes. Papers in Honour of Atholl Anderson. Terra Australis No. 29

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Author: Foss Leach and Sue O'Connor (eds

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Dop 2008, Australia
softcover
522pp

This collection makes a substantial contribution to several highly topical areas of archaeological inquiry. Many of the papers present new and innovative research into the processes of maritime colonisation, processes that affect archaeological contexts from islands to continents. Others shift focus from process to the archaeology of maritime places from the Bering to the Torres Straits, providing highly detailed discussions of how living by and with the sea is woven into all elements of human life from subsistence to trade and to ritual. Of equal importance are more abstract discussions of islands as natural places refashioned by human occupation, either through the introduction of new organisms or new systems of production and consumption. These transformation stories gain further texture (and variety) through close examinations of some of the more significant consequences of colonisation and ... more

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9780980033113

Lepers in the Mariana Islands

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Author: Marjorie G. Driver

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DoP 2007, Guam
152x228mm / 128pp
Softcover

This work is a compilation of references to la lepra (leprosy) in the Mariana Islands during the Spanish Administration (1668-1898). The references are found primarily in documents housed in the Spanish Documents Collection of the Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center at the University of Guam. There is a brief addenda that encompasses references from the American Naval Administration of Guam and the post - World War II period, 1899-1949.

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LOMPEAU

Lomipeau the Giant Double-Hulled Canoe (Kalia Lahi Fakatoukatea ko e Lomipeau)

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Author: Mahina, 'Alatini, et al

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DoP 2009, Auckland
210x145mm /20pp
Softcover
Bi-lingual

A traditional Tongan tale told in English and Tongan. When Tahitala accidentally damages his neighbours canoe, he asks his uncle to build him a canoe of his own - the result is the giant, double-hulled canoe known as Lomipeau.

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9780824834487

Lucky Come Hawaii

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NZ$ 58.00 each

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Author: Jon Shirota

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DoP January 2010, Hawaii
165x242mm / 240pp
Softcover

In the opening chapter of this classic novel set in Hawai'i, news of the attack on Pearl Harbor has just reached rural Maui. Miscommunication, confusion, and rumors of war aggravate the already tense relations among the diverse immigrant communities, Native Hawaiians, and the American military. As told through the perspective of a poor Okinawan family, "Lucky Come Hawaii" vividly captures the emotions and trauma at this momentous turning point in Island history, which will change the fate of individuals, ways of life, and the land itself forever. First published in 1965 to national acclaim but long out of print, "Lucky Come Hawaii" is a tale of love, intrigue, humor, and Island families torn apart and reunited by the events of December 7th. The novel also anticipates the changes overtaking Hawai'i, from Territory to Statehood, from small towns to a militarized Pacific ... more

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9780824833749

Mary, the Devil, and Taro

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Author: Juliana Flinn

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DoP January 2010, USA
152x228mm / 208pp
Clothbound
Religion / Micronesia /Anthropology

Catholicism, like most world religions, is patriarchal, and its official hierarchies and sacred works too often neglect the lived experiences of women. Looking beyond these texts, Juliana Flinn reveals how women practice, interpret, and shape their own Catholicism on Pollap Atoll, part of Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia. She focuses in particular on how the Pollapese shaping of Mary places value on indigenous notions of mothering that connote strength, active participation in food production, and the ability to provide for one's family. Flinn begins with an overview of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on Pollap and an introduction to Mary, who is celebrated by islanders not as a biologized mother but as a productive one, resulting in an image of strength rather than meekness: for Pollapese women Mary is a vanquisher of ... more

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9781921536908

Migration and Transnationalism Pacific Perspectives

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NZ$ 56.00 each

Author: Helen Lee and Steve Tupai Francis (eds)

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Dop 2009, Australia
Helen Lee and Steve Tupai Francis (eds)

Pacific Islanders have engaged in transnational practices since their first settlement of the many islands in the region. As they moved beyond the Pacific and settled in nations such as New Zealand, the U.S. and Australia these practices intensified and over time have profoundly shaped both home and diasporic communities. This edited volume begins with a detailed account of this history and the key issues in Pacific migration and transnationalism today. The papers that follow present a range of case studies that maintain this focus on both historical and contemporary perspectives. Each of the contributors goes beyond a narrowly economic focus to present the human face of migration and transnationalism; exploring questions of cultural values and identity, transformations in kinship, intergenerational change and the impact on home communities.
Pacific migration and ... more

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9781606085967

Missionary Imperialists? Missionaries, Government, and the Growth of the British Empire in the Tropics, 1860-1885.

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Author: John H Darch

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Dop 2009, USA
299pp
softcover

Missionary Imperialists? examines the frontiers of empire in tropical Africa and the south-west Pacific in the Mid-Victorian era. Its central theme is the role played by British Protestant missionaries in imperial development and a continuous thread is the interaction between the missions and those in government, both London and in the colonies.
An introductory chapter examines the main missionary societies involved in this study. This is followed by six detailed case studies, three from the south-west Pacific (the Pacific labor trade, Fiji, and New Guinea) and three from tropical Africa (the Gambia, Lagos and Yorubaland, and East Africa). The crucial importance of influential missionary supporters in Britain is noted as its missionary involvement in wider campaigning networks with other humanitarian groups. The book argues that where missionaries did aid imperial development it was largely ... more

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9781740480222

New World Mythology

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Author: A.W. Reed & Dennis Turner (ill.)

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Takes the reader on a journey into the past, bringing to life the enthralling events and characters found in the myths of the Australian Aborigines, Maori, Native Americans, May, Incas, and other peoples of Oceania and the Americas. There are common themes in these myths - creation, animals, love, death - but there are also many distinct stories that reflect the unique beliefs, history and location of this diverse range of cultures.

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NUCLEAR

Nuclear Past, Unclear Future ( special issue Marshall Islands Journal)

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NZ$ 55.00 each

Author: Giff Johnson

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Dop July 2009, Republic of the Marshall Islands
A4/47pp
softcover

A special issue of the Marshall Islands Journal that looks at the legacy of the USA nuclear testing programme since 1946 and it's effects on the island state and its inhabitants

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ORIGIN

Origin of the Kava and Sugarcane (Ko e Tupu'anga 'o e 'Akau ko e Kava mo e To)

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Author: Mahina, 'Alatini, et al

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DoP 2009, Auckland

16pp

A traditional Tongan tale in English and Tongan. The story tells how the Kava and Sugarcane plants came to the people of Tonga.

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Our Serenade - The Bill Sevesi Team featuring Tommy Stowers (Audio CD)

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NZ$ 30.00 each

Audio CD

Author: Bill Sevisi Team - featuring Tommy Stowers

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DoP 2001, Auckland
Audio CD
15 Tracks

More classic Pacific sounds from Bill Sevesi and his team. Includes Pania of the Reef, Return to Paradise, Now is the Hour and much more.

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