Oceania
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Playing With Apartheid: Racism, Australian Sport & South Africa [Paperback]
Roger Bell(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781922669018
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
In no country were contests over racism in sport more bitterly fought, more protracted or important than in Australia. In the wake of the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa in 1960, sport became a fault-line in international campaigns against ra... .... Learn More -
Douze jours à Nuku Hiva: Rencontres et révolte russe dans le Pacifique Sud [Paperback]
Dr. Elena Govor(Author); Dr. Marie-Noelle Ottino-Garanger(Editor)
Regular Price: $75.00
Special Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9789464260182
Published by : Sidestone Press
La première expédition russe autour du monde, à l’aube du dix-neuvième siècle, fit suite à celles de Bougainville, Cook et La Pérouse. Menée par le commandant balte-allemand Adam von Kr... .... Learn More -
Douze jours à Nuku Hiva: Rencontres et révolte russe dans le Pacifique Sud [Hardback]
Dr. Elena Govor(Author); Dr. Marie-Noelle Ottino-Garanger(Editor)
Regular Price: $210.00
Special Price: $205.00
ISBN: 9789464260199
Published by : Sidestone Press
La première expédition russe autour du monde, à l’aube du dix-neuvième siècle, fit suite à celles de Bougainville, Cook et La Pérouse. Menée par le commandant balte-allemand Adam von Kr... .... Learn More -
Acclimatising to higher ground: The realities of life of a Pacific Atoll People [Paperback]
Dr. Keith Dixon(Author)
Regular Price: $45.00
Special Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9789464260298
Published by : Sidestone Press
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas, and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern... .... Learn More -
Acclimatising to higher ground: The realities of life of a Pacific Atoll People [Hardback]
Dr. Keith Dixon(Author)
Regular Price: $120.00
Special Price: $115.00
ISBN: 9789464260304
Published by : Sidestone Press
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas, and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern... .... Learn More -
Ancestors, artefacts, empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish museums [Hardback]
Gaye Sculthorpe(Editor); Maria Nugent(Editor); Howard Morphy(Editor)
$95.00ISBN: 9780714124902
Published by : British Museum
Museums across Great Britain and Ireland hold Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (collectively referred to as ‘Indigenous’) cultural heritage of exceptional value, but which is largely unknown, rarely seen, and poorly understood. Gi... .... Learn More -
Objects as Insights: R.H. Codrington’s Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia [Paperback]
Nick Stanley(Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9780861592357
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 235
Robert Codrington (1830–1922) trained to be a priest at Oxford University where he was ordained in 1857. He volunteered to work in Nelson, New Zealand, from 1860–4 and was appointed as headmaster of the Melanesian Mission training scho... .... Learn More -
The Dystopia in the Desert: The silent culture of Australia’s remotest Aboriginal communities [Paperback]
Tadhgh Purtill(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781925333862
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
The Ngaanyatjarra Lands, deep in Western Australia, are home to Australia’s most remote Aboriginal communities. Beset by social problems, the communities and their residents are detached from mainstream Australia by factors of distance and c... .... Learn More -
Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague [Paperback]
Julie Adams(Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9789088906350
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 8
In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his travels in the South Pacifi... .... Learn More -
Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague [Hardback]
Julie Adams(Author)
$195.00ISBN: 9789088906367
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 8
In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his travels in the South Pacifi... .... Learn More
