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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.
 


Author Talks!
We are excited to announce the following author talks for the ASAO 2026 virtual meeting:
 
○ Jaap Timmer. Prophetic Histories: Time, Theology, and Theocracy in Solomon Islands. Berghahn, 2025.
 
○ Roger Ivar Lohmann (ed.). Dogs and Their Humans in Pacific Island Interspecies Cultures. Routledge, 2026.

○ Patricia Fifita, Kate Riley, and John Wagner (eds.). "Food Sovereignty in Oceania," Pacific Studies 48(2), 2025.

○ Courtney Handman. Circulations: Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and Decolonization in Papua New Guinea. University of California Press, 2025.

All book talks will be held during the conference lunch breaks.


Discounts!
We are excited to announce the following discounts:

Berghahn Books: 35% off all of the listed titles with code ASAO35 (expires 28 February 2026)

University of Hawai'i Press: Use code ASAO26 for a 30% discount

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

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ANU PRESS

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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)

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Preparing a Nation? The New Deal in the Villages of Papua New Guinea


Brad Underhill


2024
356 pages
Open access
Print version ($60.00)


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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)


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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)


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Grassroots Law in Papua New Guinea


Melissa Demian (ed.)


2023
210 pages
Open access
Print version ($49.95)

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Fijians in Transnational Pentecostal Networks


Karen J. Brison


2023
172 pages
Open access
Print version ($29.95)



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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)


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Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation: Journeys in Bougainville


Gordon Peake


2022
178 pages
Open access
Print version ($29.95)



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Suva Stories: A History of the Capital of Fiji


Nicholas Halter (ed.)


2022
520 pages
Open access
Print version ($75.00)

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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)

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Honiara: Village-City of Solomon Islands


Clive Moore


2022
578 pages
Open access
Print version ($99.00)

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Papua New Guinea: Government, Economy and Society


Stephen Howes and Lekshmi N. Pillai (eds.)


2022
278 pages
Open access
Print version ($66.00)

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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)

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BERGHAHN BOOKS

Discount Alert: 35% off all of the listed titles with code ASAO35 (expires 28 February 2026)

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Prophetic Histories: Time, Theology, and Theocracy in Solomon Islands

Jaap Timmer


2025
208 pages, 9 illus.
Hardcover ($135.00)
eBook ($24.95)

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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)


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Enacted Relations: Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community


Franca Tamisari


2024
320 pages, 11 illus.
Hardcover ($135.00)
eBook ($24.95)



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Two Against the Tide: The Shared Career and Lost Legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman


Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen


2024
246 pages
Hardcover ($135.00)



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Ӧmie Sex Affiliation: A Papuan Nature


Marta Rohatynskyj


2023
274 pages, 14 illus.
Hardcover ($135.00)
eBook ($24.95)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

 


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BLOOMSBURY

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Economies of Care: Market Women in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea


Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh


2025
248 pages
Hardcover ($115.00)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS

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CAROLINA ACADEMIC PRESS


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Singing Samo Songs: From Shaman to Pastor


R. Daniel Shaw


2022
276 pages
$45.00

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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

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DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger


Sophie Chao


2025
272 pages, 19 illus.
Hardcover ($119.95)
Paperback ($28.95)

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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)

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Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment

Hi`ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart


2022
264 pages, 10 illus.
Hardcover ($99.95)
Paperback ($26.95)

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Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences

Jessica A. Schwartz

2021

312 pages, 21 illus.
Hardcover ($107.95)

Paperback ($28.95)

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa

Holger Droessler

2022

304 pages, 21 illus.
$41.00

 

 

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Heidelberg University Publishing


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HELSINKI UNIVERSITY PRESS

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MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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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

 

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages

Edited by Nicholas Evans and Sebastian Fedden

2026

1280 pages
Hardcover ($225.00)

 

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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)

 

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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)

 

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The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania

Terry L. Hunt and Ethan E. Cochrane

2021

524 pages
Paperback ($69.00)

 

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The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages

Edited by Claire Bowern

2023

1178 pages
Hardcover ($200.00)

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Singing and Survival: The Music of Easter Island

Dan Bendrups

2019

220 pages
Paperback ($37.99)

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Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands

Elise Berman

2019

224 pages, 26 illus.
Paperback ($46.99)

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ROUTLEDGE

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Dogs and Their Humans in Pacific Island Interspecies Cultures


Roger Ivar Lohmann (ed.)

2026

262 pages, 17 illus.

Hardcover ($152.00)
eBook ($42.74)

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Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum: Offshore Processing at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Nauru


Jennifer Ferng


2026

190 pages, 47 illus.

Hardcover ($160.00)

eBook ($46.49)

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Material Encounters


Bronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard (eds.)


2024

196 pages

Hardcover ($160.00)

eBook and Paperback ($46.39)

 

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Spirit Structures of Papua New Guinea: Art and Architecture in the Kaiaimunucene


Michael Hirschbichler


2024

286 pages, 77 illus.

Hardcover ($152.00)
Paperback ($45.59)
eBook ($42.74)

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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)


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Archaeology of Pacific Oceania: Inhabiting a Sea of Islands (2nd Edition)


Mike T. Carson


2024

400 pages, 204 illus.

Hardcover ($160.00)
Paperback ($44.79)
eBook ($41.99)

 

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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)


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Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness

 

Birgit Abels

 

2022

206 pages

Hardcover ($112.00)
Paperback ($45.59)

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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)

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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)

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RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

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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)

 

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SEAN KINGSTON PUBLISHING

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The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik

Ross Bowden

2023

244 pages
Open access

Hardcover ($180.00)
Paperback ($60.00)

 

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SPRINGER / PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

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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)

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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)

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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)




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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
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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)

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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)

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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS



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We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea

 

Jason Roberts

 

2024

264 pages
Hardcover ($65.00)
Paperback ($35.00)
eBook ($35.00)

 

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS



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Circulations: Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and Decolonization in Papua New Guinea

 

Courtney Handman

 

2025

232 pages, 10 illus.
Paperback ($34.95)
eBook ($12.99)

 

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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI`I PRESS

Discount Alert: Use code ASAO26 for a 30% discount

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Dialogues with a Trickster: On the Margins of Myth and Ethnography in the Marshall Islands

 


Phillip H. McArthur

 


2024

302 pages, 7 illus.

Hardcover ($75.00)

Paperback ($25.00)

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Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania


Jamon Alex Halvaksz II and Joshua A. Bell (eds.)


2024

292 pages, 25 illus.

Hardcover ($68.00)

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My Land, My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire

 


Siobhan McDonnell

 


2023

264 pages, 14 illus.

Hardcover ($68.00)

Paperback ($30.00)

 

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War at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in World War II

Lin Poyer

2022

332 pages, 10 illus.
Open access
Hardcover ($68.00)
Paperback ($28.00)

 

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Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa

(Available in North American only)

Jeff Evans

 

2022

256 pages, 45 illus.
Paperback ($29.99)

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Connecting the Kingdom: Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790–1840


Peter R. Mills


2022

296 pages, 13 illus.

Hardcover ($80.00)
Paperback ($27.99)

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Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawai'i to Kahiki

 

Emalani Case

 

2021

160 pages

Hardcover ($78.00)

Paperback ($24.99)

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Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses

Philipp Schorch

2020

316 pages, 42 illus.

Hardcover ($84.00)
Paperback ($32.00)

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Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American Sāmoa

 

JoAnna Poblete

 

2020

214 pages, 11 illus.

Hardcover ($68.00)

Paperback ($28.00)

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Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua


Camellia Webb-Gannon

2021

228 pages, 5 illus.

Hardcover ($68.00)

Paperback ($28.00)


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A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania


Lorenz Gonschor


2019

256 pages, 11 illus.

Hardcover ($80.00)

Paperback ($28.00)

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The New Port Moresby: Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea

Ceridwen Spark

2020

174 pages, 8 illus.

Hardcover ($80.00)
Paperback ($30.00)

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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

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Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel

Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips

2024

304 pages
Hardcover ($80.00)
Paperback ($26.95)
eBook ($26.95)

 

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Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu

Alexandra Widmer


2023

262 pages, 12 illus.
Paperback ($29.95)
eBook ($29.95)

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Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight


Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Jessica Hardin, Sarah Trainer, and Amber Wutich

2021

236 pages

Paperback ($28.95)
eBook ($23.95)

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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)

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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
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Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism across the Pacific


Elyssa Faison and Alison Fields (eds.)

2024

344 pages, 50 illus.

Paperback ($35.00)

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Reppin': Pacific Islander Youth and Native Justice


Keith L. Camacho (ed.)

2021

288 pages, 25 illus.
Hardcover ($110.00)

Paperback ($30.00)

 

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Working with the Ancestors: Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands

Emily C. Donaldson

2019

276 pages, 13 illus.
Hardcover ($110.00)
Paperback ($35.00)

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Oceania at the Tropenmuseum

David van Duuren

 

2015

216 pages
Hardcover ($45.00)

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WAVELAND PRESS, INC.
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The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World Fifth Edition

Bruce Knauft with Anne-Sylvie Malbrancke

2022

237 pages
$36.95