Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
2026 Book Display This year's Online Book Display features the following titles, hot off the presses, plus some great deals (and a few old favorites)! Thank you to all of our publishers and to John Barker for all his hard work assembling this information.
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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness
Birgit Abels
2022 206 pages Open access
ANU PRESS
Ink and Land: Documenting Factionalism around a Prospective Mine in Papua New Guinea
Willem Church
2025 268 pages Open access Print version ($59.95)
Struggle, Reform, Boom and Bust: An Economic History of Papua New Guinea since Independence
Stephen Howes, Martin Davies, Rohan Fox, Maholopa Laveil, Manoj K. Pandey, Kelly Samof, and Dek Joe Sum
2025 442 pages Open access Print version ($79.95)
Preparing a Nation? The New Deal in the Villages of Papua New Guinea
Brad Underhill
2024 356 pages Open access Print version ($60.00)
Capital Punishment, Clemency and Colonialism in Papua New Guinea, 1954–65
Murray Chisholm
2024 282 pages Open access Print version ($60.00)
The Chinese in Papua New Guinea: Past, Present and Future
Anna Hayes, Rosita Henry, and Michael Wood (eds.)
2024 258 pages Open access Print version ($60.00)
Return to Volcano Town: Reassessing the 1937–1943 Volcanic Eruptions at Rabaul
R. Wally Johnson and Neville A. Threlfall
2023 428 pages Open access Print version ($69.95)
Grassroots Law in Papua New Guinea
Melissa Demian (ed.)
2023 210 pages Open access Print version ($49.95)
Fijians in Transnational Pentecostal Networks
Karen J. Brison
2023 172 pages Open access Print version ($29.95)
Islands of Hope: Indigenous Resource Management in a Changing Pacific
Paul D'Arcy and Daya Dakasi Da-Wei Kuan (eds.)
2023 462 pages Open access Print version ($74.95)
Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation: Journeys in Bougainville
Gordon Peake
2022 178 pages Open access Print version ($29.95)
Suva Stories: A History of the Capital of Fiji
Nicholas Halter (ed.)
2022 520 pages Open access Print version ($75.00)
Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania
Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones, and Matthew Spriggs (eds.)
2022 614 pages Open access Print version ($110.00)
Honiara: Village-City of Solomon Islands
Clive Moore
2022 578 pages Open access Print version ($99.00)
Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement
Aidan Craney
2022 250 pages Open access Print version ($55.00)
Papua New Guinea: Government, Economy and Society
Stephen Howes and Lekshmi N. Pillai (eds.)
2022 278 pages Open access Print version ($66.00)
Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific
Nicholas A. Bainton, Debra McDougall, Kalissa Alexeyeff, and John Cox (eds.)
2021 580 pages Open access Print version ($80.00)
Uneven Connections: A Partial History of the Mobile Phone in Papua New Guinea
Robert J. Foster
2024 238 pages Open access Print version ($59.95)
BERGHAHN BOOKS
Prophetic Histories: Time, Theology, and Theocracy in Solomon Islands Jaap Timmer
2025 208 pages, 9 illus. Hardcover ($135.00) eBook ($24.95)
Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea: An Ethnography of Value Dan Moretti
2025 342 pages, 16 illus. Hardcover ($135.00) eBook ($24.95)
Enacted Relations: Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community
Franca Tamisari
2024 320 pages, 11 illus. Hardcover ($135.00) eBook ($24.95)
Two Against the Tide: The Shared Career and Lost Legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman
Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen
2024 246 pages Hardcover ($135.00)
Ӧmie Sex Affiliation: A Papuan Nature
Marta Rohatynskyj
2023 274 pages, 14 illus. Hardcover ($135.00) eBook ($24.95)
Engaging Environments in Tonga: Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Arne Aleksej Perminow
2022 244 pages, 11 illus. Hardcover ($135.00) Paperback ($19.95) eBook (open access)
Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu
Tom Bratrud
2022 240 pages, 20 illus. Hardcover ($135.00) Paperback & eBook ($34.95)
Pacific Spaces: Translations and Transmutations
Edited by A.-Chr Engels-Schwarzpaul, Lana Lopesi, and Albert L. Refiti
2022 218 pages Hardcover ($135.00) eBook ($24.95)
In Memory of Times to Come: Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea
Melissa Demian
2021 240 pages, 13 illus. Hardcover ($135.00) Paperback ($34.95) eBook ($24.95)
BLOOMSBURY
Economies of Care: Market Women in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh
2025 248 pages Hardcover ($115.00)
A Thousand Eruptions: Charismatic Revival and the Quest for Metaphysical Security in Melanesia 1970-1980
Fraser Macdonald
2024 232 pages, 17 illus. Hardcover ($115.00) Paperback ($39.95) eBook ($103.50)
Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and the Reimagining of History
Ryota Nishino
2022 264 pages, 10 illus. Hardcover ($120.00) Paperback ($39.95) eBook ($35.95)
Linguistic Landscaping and the Pacific Region: Colonization, Indigenous Identities, and Critical Discourse Theory
Diane Elizabeth Johnson
2023 162 pages, 39 illus. Hardcover ($105.00) Paperback ($39.99) eBook ($35.99)
BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS
Objects as Insights: R.H. Codrington's Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia Nick Stanley
2021 110 pages, 85 illus. $33.65
CAROLINA ACADEMIC PRESS
Singing Samo Songs: From Shaman to Pastor
R. Daniel Shaw
2022 276 pages $45.00
Making Law in Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Origins of a Postcolonial Legal System
Bruce L. Ottley, David Weisbrot, and Jean G. Zorn
2021 538 pages $68.00
Moro and the Weather Coast: A Revitalization Movement in the Solomon Islands
Gülbün Çoker O'Connor
2022 252 pages $44.00
Haunted Pacific: Anthropologists Investigate Spectral Apparitions across Oceania
Edited by Roger Ivar Lohmann 2019
256 pages
$38.00
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger
Sophie Chao
2025 272 pages, 19 illus. Hardcover ($119.95) Paperback ($28.95)
The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists Anaïs Maurer
2024 256 pages, 12 illus. Hardcover ($102.95) Paperback ($26.95)
Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment Hi`ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
2022 264 pages, 10 illus. Hardcover ($99.95) Paperback ($26.95)
Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences Jessica A. Schwartz 2021
312 pages, 21 illus. Hardcover ($107.95)
Paperback ($28.95)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa Holger Droessler 2022
304 pages, 21 illus. $41.00
Tracking the Ancestors: On their Journeys along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea Jürg Wassmann
2022
602 pages $77.41
Hard Work: Producing places, relations and value on a Papua New Guinea resource frontier Tuomas Tammisto 2024
350 pages Open access
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Climate Politics in Oceania: Renewing Australia-Pacific Relations in a Warming World Susan Harris Rimmer, Caitlin Byrne, and Wesley Morgan (eds.) 2024
256 pages $40.00
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages Edited by Nicholas Evans and Sebastian Fedden 2026
1280 pages Hardcover ($225.00)
The Oxford Handbook of Island and Coastal Archaeology
Edited by Scott M. Fitzpatrick and Jon McVey Erlandson 2026
1232 pages, 50 illus. Hardcover ($315.00)
Between Rights and Rightfulness: Regulating Gender and Violence in the Pacific Islands Nicole George 2025
256 pages Hardcover ($99.00)
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea Edited by Ian J. McNiven and Bruno David 2023
1168 pages Hardcover ($230.00)
The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania Terry L. Hunt and Ethan E. Cochrane 2021
524 pages Paperback ($69.00)
The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages Edited by Claire Bowern 2023
1178 pages Hardcover ($200.00)
Singing and Survival: The Music of Easter Island Dan Bendrups 2019
220 pages Paperback ($37.99)
Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands Elise Berman 2019
224 pages, 26 illus. Paperback ($46.99)
ROUTLEDGE
Dogs and Their Humans in Pacific Island Interspecies Cultures
Roger Ivar Lohmann (ed.)
2026
262 pages, 17 illus.
Hardcover ($152.00) eBook ($42.74)
Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum: Offshore Processing at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Nauru
Jennifer Ferng
190 pages, 47 illus.
Hardcover ($160.00)
eBook ($46.49)
Material Encounters
Bronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard (eds.)
2024
196 pages
eBook and Paperback ($46.39)
Spirit Structures of Papua New Guinea: Art and Architecture in the Kaiaimunucene
Michael Hirschbichler
286 pages, 77 illus.
Hardcover ($152.00) Paperback ($45.59) eBook ($42.74)
Women's Football in Oceania Lee McGowan, Kasey Symons, and Yoko Kanemasu 2023 258 pages, 1 illus.
Hardcover ($152.00) Paperback ($43.99) eBook ($41.24)
Archaeology of Pacific Oceania: Inhabiting a Sea of Islands (2nd Edition)
Mike T. Carson
400 pages, 204 illus.
Hardcover ($160.00) Paperback ($44.79) eBook ($41.99)
Knots: Ethnography of the Moral in Culture and Social Thought David Lipset and Eric K. Silverman (eds.) 2023 262 pages, 75 illus.
Hardcover ($144.00) Paperback ($43.99) eBook ($41.24)
206 pages
Hardcover ($112.00) Paperback ($45.59)
Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography Fetaui Iosefo, Stacy Holman Jones, and Anne Harris (eds.) 2021 238 pages, 18 illus.
Hardcover ($160.00) Paperback ($49.59) eBook ($46.59)
Ancestral Presence: Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands
Eric Hirsch
2021
256 pages, 29 illus.
Hardcover ($152.00)
Paperback ($45.59) eBook ($42.74)
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Forgotten Bodies: Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam Sarah A. Smith 2023
234 pages, 21 illus.
Hardcover ($150.00) Paperback ($37.95) eBook ($37.95)
SEAN KINGSTON PUBLISHING
The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik Ross Bowden 2023
244 pages Open access Hardcover ($180.00) Paperback ($60.00)
SPRINGER / PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Pre-Columbian Contact between the Americas and Oceania Andrea Ballesteros - Danel 2024
383 pages, 22 illus. Hardcover ($139.99) Paperback ($119.99) eBook ($99.99)
Christian Temporalities: Living Between the Already Fulfilled and the Not Yet Completed Anna-Karina Hermkens, Simon Coleman, and Matt Tomlinson (eds.) 2024
237 pages, 2 illus. Hardcover & Paperback ($179.99) eBook ($139.00)
She Speaks Her Anger: Myths and Conversations of Gimi Women: A Psychological Ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Gillian Gillison 2020
290 pages, 17 illus. Hardcover & Paperback ($119.99) eBook ($89.00)
A Witch’s Hand: Curing, Killing, Kinship, and Colonialism among the Lujere of New Guinea William E. Mitchell 2024
567 pages, 61 illus. Paperback ($50.00)
Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori Art Deidre Brown and Ngarino Ellis, with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki 2024
616 pages, 584 illus. Cloth ($55.00)
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS
We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea
Jason Roberts
264 pages Hardcover ($65.00) Paperback ($35.00) eBook ($35.00)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Circulations: Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and Decolonization in Papua New Guinea
Courtney Handman
2025
232 pages, 10 illus. Paperback ($34.95) eBook ($12.99)
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI`I PRESS
Fenua and Fare, Marae and Mana: The Archaeology of Ancient Tahiti and the Society Islands
Jennifer G. Kahn
306 pages, 65 illus. Hardcover ($80.00)
The Myth of the Natural Laboratory: Science, Empire, and Their Derangements on Pitcairn and Norfolk
Adrian Young
246 pages, 4 illus.
Hardcover ($70.00)
Dialogues with a Trickster: On the Margins of Myth and Ethnography in the Marshall Islands
Phillip H. McArthur
302 pages, 7 illus.
Hardcover ($75.00)
Paperback ($25.00)
Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania
Jamon Alex Halvaksz II and Joshua A. Bell (eds.)
292 pages, 25 illus.
Hardcover ($68.00)
My Land, My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire
Siobhan McDonnell
2023
264 pages, 14 illus.
Paperback ($30.00)
War at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in World War II
Lin Poyer
332 pages, 10 illus. Open access Hardcover ($68.00) Paperback ($28.00)
Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa
(Available in North American only)
Jeff Evans
256 pages, 45 illus. Paperback ($29.99)
Connecting the Kingdom: Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790–1840
Peter R. Mills
296 pages, 13 illus.
Hardcover ($80.00) Paperback ($27.99)
Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawai'i to Kahiki
Emalani Case
160 pages
Hardcover ($78.00)
Paperback ($24.99)
Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses
Philipp Schorch
2020
316 pages, 42 illus.
Hardcover ($84.00) Paperback ($32.00)
Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American Sāmoa
JoAnna Poblete
214 pages, 11 illus.
Paperback ($28.00)
Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua
Camellia Webb-Gannon
228 pages, 5 illus.
A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania
Lorenz Gonschor
2019
256 pages, 11 illus.
Hardcover ($80.00)
The New Port Moresby: Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea
Ceridwen Spark
174 pages, 8 illus.
Hardcover ($80.00) Paperback ($30.00)
Tanna Times: Islanders in the World
Lamont Lindstrom
192 pages, 15 illus.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips
304 pages Hardcover ($80.00) Paperback ($26.95) eBook ($26.95)
Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu Alexandra Widmer
262 pages, 12 illus. Paperback ($29.95) eBook ($29.95)
Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight
Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Jessica Hardin, Sarah Trainer, and Amber Wutich
236 pages
Paperback ($28.95) eBook ($23.95)
Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest (2nd Edition)
John Barker
2016
248 pages, 28 illus. Hardcover ($66.00)
Paperback ($34.95) eBook ($28.95)
Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism across the Pacific
Elyssa Faison and Alison Fields (eds.)
344 pages, 50 illus.
Paperback ($35.00)
Reppin': Pacific Islander Youth and Native Justice
Keith L. Camacho (ed.)
288 pages, 25 illus. Hardcover ($110.00)
Working with the Ancestors: Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands Emily C. Donaldson
276 pages, 13 illus. Hardcover ($110.00) Paperback ($35.00)
Oceania at the Tropenmuseum David van Duuren
2015
216 pages Hardcover ($45.00)
The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World Fifth Edition Bruce Knauft with Anne-Sylvie Malbrancke
237 pages $36.95