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Pacific - July/Aug

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9780980033120

Chamorro Legends on the Island of Guam

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Author: Mavis Warner Van Peenen

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DoP 2009, Guam
152x230mm / 164pp

"Van Peenen's little book is one of the few records of Chamorro oral tradition and s therefore an invaluable source for cultural memory as well as the study of how Chamorro identity changed from centuries of cultural submergence, and clearly bears the marks of cultural domination...Despite her politically incorrect diversions, Van Peenen has done a great service for Chamorrow culture and identity" (from the introduction by John A Peterson)

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9780824833428

Glamour in the Pacific

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Author: Fiona Paisley

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DoP July 2009, Hawaii
152x228mm / 304pp

Since its inception in 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women's Association (PPWA) has witnessed and contributed to enormous changes in world and Pacific history. Operating out of Honolulu, this women's network established a series of conferences that promoted social reform and an internationalist outlook through cultural exchange. For the many women attracted to the project - from China, Japan, the Pacific Islands, and the major settler colonies of the region - the association's vision was enormously attractive, despite the fact that as individuals and national representatives they remained deeply divided by colonial histories. "Glamour in the Pacific" tells this multifaceted story by bringing together critical scholarship from across a wide range of fields, including cultural history, international relations and globalization, gender and empire, postcolonial studies, population and world health ... more

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9781904145271

Linnaeus Apostles, The - complete catalogue

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Author: Various

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DoP - 2009, UK
A-4 / 27pp

This is the complete catalogue of the greatest research and publishing project ever on the chosen few who came to be known as the Linnaeus Apostles. It provides an overview of the monumental series of eight volumes - comprising 11 volumes in all and over 5,500 pages which has been in preparation since the late 1990s.

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9781883528386

Polynesia: The Mark & Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art

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Author: Adrienne Kaeppler

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The visual arts of Polynesia offer a richly diverse and relatively little known body of work, covering an enormous geographical area yet linked by shared artistic conventions. The collection of Mark and Carolyn Blackburn, one of the greatest private collections of Polynesian art in the world, encompasses this broad field of artistic endeavor. It features both ceremonial and functional traditional forms in diverse media, from delicate ivory ornaments and decorated barkcloth to formidable weaponry and imposing sculpture in coral, wood, and stone.

The geographic spread of the collection is vast, covering the Pacific Ocean from Hawai‘i to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to ‘Aotearoa (New Zealand), and the many islands in between. Many of the pieces have noteworthy historical antecedents, such as items associated with the eighteenth-century voyages of Captain Cook, and the Dupetit-Thouars material from the Marquesas, first collected by the ... more

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TAEO

Taeao Fou I Mea Sina (1996)

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Author: Tautai Contemporary Arts Trust

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DOP 1996

The first Pacific Festival Contemporary arts exhibition September 12-20, 1996. Catalogue of artists' works from American Samoa, Australia, Fiji, Tahiti, Guam, New Caledonia, Niue, Norfolk Island, Tokelau, Vanuatu,
Wallis, Western Samoa & Aotearoa.

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9781405038560

The Islands

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Author: Di Morrissey

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DoP October 2009, Australia
Softcover

It's the psychedelic 70s and social conventions are being challenged. When Catherine Moreland from rural Australia goes on her first trip abroad, a handsome American naval officer sweeps her off her feet and she goes to live in beautiful, romantic Hawaii with her new husband.

At first, the magic and loveliness of the Islands lead Catherine to believe she is living in paradise. She befriends Kiann'e, a traditional dancer; Eleanor, the owner of the legendary Palm Grove Hotel; Lester, a reclusive old surfer; and royal Beatrice, leading the fight to maintain Hawaii's heritage and culture.

However, as Catherine learns more about the Islands, she begins to discover that paradise has a darker side. And when she meets a mystery man of the sea, as though hit by a tsunami, her life is turned upside down and changed forever.

First published 2008.

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9781741756814

The Letters of George and Elizabeth Bass

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Author: Miriam Estensen

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DoP April 2009, Australia
215 x 148mm, 176pp
Hardcover w. colour dust jacket
Some Pacific content

In August 1800, George Bass returned to England after five years in the British colony of New South Wales. Gifted, ambitious and impatient with the limitations of a naval career, he took leave from the navy to purchase a ship of his own and organise a commercial venture to Sydney. He also met Elizabeth Waterhouse, and fell very much in love. They were married on 8 October 1800. On 9 January 1801, George Bass sailed for Australia. For the next two years, and across two oceans, letters were the only link between George and Elizabeth Bass. His were brief, dashed across the page with an impatient hand, embedded with tantalising references to his life at sea or the colony of New South Wales and filled with love for his wife. Hers were many pages of small, neat script with news of her friends and family, her own thoughts and pursuits, and ... more

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9781904145264

The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science and Adventure

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NZ$ 2,500.00 each

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Author: Anders Sparrman

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DoP 2009 EU

8 volumes, 11 Books

A monumental series of eight volumes, comprising in all eleven books and over 5,500 pages - which has been in preparation since the late 1990's. During the 18th century, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus was to inspire seventeen of his pupils to travel to distant corners of the world to document local nature and culture. They travelled across land and sea on their own or as members of expeditions, covering every continent between the years 1745 and 1799.

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9780855756628

Throwing Off the Cloak

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Author: Elizabeth Osborne

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DoP August 2009, Australia
230x152mm / 256pp
Softcover

Essential reading for anyone interested in Indigenous responses to colonisation.

Osborne focuses on the Torres Strait Islander peoples' evolving struggles for recognition of their unique Indigenous island identities. She foregrounds the voices of the Torres Strait Islanders themselves as views were rarely sought nor recorded from the arrival of outside intervention in the 1840s up to the 1970s. Osborne records the peoples' collective passive resistance as well as the successful Border No Change protest. In more recent years the Islanders have refined their skills in dealing with political leaders and have used the media to reach a wider audience. The local newspaper and radio station are now platforms for lively discussion. As governmental policies became less dismissive of Indigenous aspirations and concern for Indigenous welfare increased, Osborne explores the debates ... more

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9780813537986

Visions of Paradise: Images of Eden in the Cinema

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NZ$ 80.00 each

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Author: Wheeler W. Dixon

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DOp 2006, USA
softcover

Depictions of sex, violence, and crime abound in many of today's movies, sometimes making it seem that the idyllic life has vanished - even from our imaginations. But, as Wheeler Winston Dixon shows in this unique overview, paradise has not always been lost. For many years, depictions of heaven, earthly paradises, and utopias were common in popular films. Illustrated throughout with intriguing, rare stills, and organized so as to provide historical context, "Visions of Paradise" surveys a huge array of films that have offered us glimpses of a life that is rich and meaningful, free from strife, devoid of pain and privation, and full of harmony in every sense. In films, such as "Moana", "White Shadows in the South Seas", "The Green Pastures", "Heaven Can Wait", "The Enchanted Forest", "The Bishop's Wife", "Carousel", "Bikini Beach", "Elvira Madigan", and many others, characters, and the audience by ... more

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