Australia & the Pacific
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White Fella – Black Fella: Early European Explorers and Their Engagement with Australian Aborigines [Paperback]
Wilson McOrist (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781922669414
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The early European explorers of Australia, from the early 1600s to the mid-1800s, narrated the bewilderment, misunderstandings, affection and hostility that arose in their encounters with the Indigenous peoples. Of their reports, many are little k... .... Learn More -
Australia's Tasman Wars: Colonial Australia and Conflict in New Zealand, 1800–1850 [Paperback]
Craig Wilcox (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781922669452
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The British settlement in eastern Australia in 1788 and the strong establishment of the British colony of New South Wales created a maritime frontier in the Tasman Sea and Southwest Pacific. Maritime frontier conflict occurred from Tonga to Tahiti... .... Learn More -
It's Coming from The Times in Front of Us: Country, Kin and The Dugong Hunter Song lines [Paperback]
John Bradley (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781922454966
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
The song line of the Dugong Hunters embodies Yanyuwa knowledge of the sea and the islands of Yanyuwa country, in Australia’s Northern Territory.
If one knows, it is possible to look out on Yanyuwa country and see the Dugong Hunters, the W... .... Learn More -
Acclimatising to Higher Ground: The Realities of Life of a Pacific Atoll People [Paperback]
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]
Keith Dixon (Author)
£120.00ISBN: 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)
£60.00ISBN: 9780714124902
Published by : British Museum Press
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. Gifted, sold, e... .... Learn More -
Objects as Insights: R.H. Codrington's Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia [Paperback]
Nick Stanley (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780861592357
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 235
Robert Codrington (1830-1922) trained to be a priest at Oxford University. He volunteered to work in Nelson, New Zealand, from 1860-4 and was appointed as headmaster of the Melanesian Mission training school on Norfolk Island in 1867. He spent the... .... Learn More -
Safer Gardens: Plant Flammability & Planning For Fire [Paperback]
Lesley Corbett (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781922454607
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Destructive bushfires are increasing in frequency and intensity around the world. For people living in fire prone areas there are no reliable guides about which plants have low flammability and which are frighteningly flammable. Safer Gardens is t... .... Learn More -
Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague [Paperback]
Julie Adams (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9789088906350
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 8
Museum Magic Memory reveals and responds to the challenges that curators today must embrace when exhibiting the ethnographic collections of the past with the aim of establishing new relations for the future. .... Learn More -
Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague [Hardback]
Julie Adams (Author)
£160.00ISBN: 9789088906367
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 8
Museum Magic Memory reveals and responds to the challenges that curators today must embrace when exhibiting the ethnographic collections of the past with the aim of establishing new relations for the future. .... Learn More
