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Across Australia
ISBN: 9781108020411 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eminent biologist Sir Baldwin Spencer (1860 1929) was born in Lancashire but moved to Australia to take up the chair in biology at the University of Melbourne in 1887. As a member of the 1894 Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia, Spencer made the acquaintance of F. J. Gillen, an advocate of Aboriginal rights, with whom he later formed a working partnership. Spencer and Gillen returned to Alice Springs in Central Australia in 1896 1897, to carry out observations on the local Aboriginal tribe, the Arunta. These observations were published in 1899, in The Native Tribes of Central...
Eminent biologist Sir Baldwin Spencer (1860 1929) was born in Lancashire but moved to Australia to take up the chair in biology at the University of M...
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265,45 zł |
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Historical Dictionary of Polynesia, Third Edition
ISBN: 9780810867727 / Angielski / Twarda / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Polynesia greatly expands on the previous editions through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Polynesian history from the earliest times to the present.
This third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Polynesia greatly expands on the previous editions through a chronology, an introductory essay, an ...
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844,73 zł |
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Archaeological Investigations of Marae Structures in Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia: Report and discussions
ISBN: 9781407305677 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This publication is based on new fieldwork carried out on the island of Huahine, French Polynesia, in the years 2001-
2004. The aim of the project was to establish a chronological framework of the marae structures mainly on the island of Huahine in the Leeward Society Islands. However dates were also conducted on earlier collected charcoal from excavated marae structures on the Windward Islands to control the wider context of our local results. Other questions of interest to this study were how the marae structures were located on the landscape, as well as, aspects of their extended uses... This publication is based on new fieldwork carried out on the island of Huahine, French Polynesia, in the years 2001-
2004. The aim of the project... |
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296,50 zł |
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Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe Drawn from Three Points
ISBN: 9780804705196 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Naven- is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e ceremony is performed to congratulate members of the tribe upon the completion of notable accomplishments, among which homicide ranks highest. Ordinarily this tribe insists upon an extreme contrast between the sexes, but in the -naven- ceremony, tranvestitism and ritual homosexuality are represented. The -naven- serves in this book as a motive around which the author has constructed one of the most influential works of field anthropology ever written.
-Naven- is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e ceremony is performed to congratulate members of...
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620,93 zł |
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The History of Contract Labor in the Hawaiian Islands
ISBN: 9781108020718 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Katharine Coman (1857 1915) was an American historian and economist who served as professor and later dean at Wellesley College. Her works include A History of England (1899), Economic Beginnings of the Far West (1912), and this 1903 monograph. Written following a trip to the islands, the short piece focuses upon the use of imported contract labour in the form of indentured servants. Used primarily in the sugar industry, the system was, in Coman's view, one of which the results 'advance d] the interests of the labourers quite as much as those of the planters'. The United States' distaste with...
Katharine Coman (1857 1915) was an American historian and economist who served as professor and later dean at Wellesley College. Her works include A H...
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178,75 zł |
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Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed
ISBN: 9781416597476 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set on the island made famous by "Mutiny on the Bounty, "the true account of belated justice in an isolated society spun tragically out of control.
Set on the island made famous by "Mutiny on the Bounty, "the true account of belated justice in an isolated society spun tragically out of control.
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89,59 zł |
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On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation
ISBN: 9780804774062 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"--and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them--have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should...
Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, ...
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100,10 zł |
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On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation
ISBN: 9780804774055 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"--and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them--have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should...
Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, ...
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415,62 zł |
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Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power, Place, and Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780295991016 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2013 ICAS Book Prize (Social Sciences) The "Tahiti" that most people imagine - white-sand beaches, turquoise lagoons, and beautiful women - is a product of 18th century European romanticism and persists today as the bedrock of Tahiti's tourism industry. This postcard image, however, masks a different reality. The dreams and desires that the tourism industry promotes distract from the medical nightmares and environmental destruction caused by France's 30-year nuclear testing program in French Polynesia. Tahitians see the burying of a bomb in their land as deeply... Winner of the 2013 ICAS Book Prize (Social Sciences) The "Tahiti" that most people imagine - white-sand beaches, turquoise lagoons, and beaut... |
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455,68 zł |
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The Hurricane Book: A Sailing Captain's Memoirs
ISBN: 9781453845493 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Hurricane Book a sailing captains memoirs is a true tale by a story telling sea captain of his experience and survival of 18 hurricanes at sea and on land. From his childhood memories through surfing huge storm swells, as the pier that he was jumping off was washed away, the captain leads the reader through adventure and drama. From life in the Caribbean to tales of Hawaii and even history making hurricanes in France one gets the feel of harrowing survival, howling winds, and huge waves and nowhere to hide. Speckled with historic notes, National Hurricane Center facts and amusing...
The Hurricane Book a sailing captains memoirs is a true tale by a story telling sea captain of his experience and survival of 18 hurricanes at sea and...
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72,68 zł |
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Saints of Molokai
ISBN: 9781449575267 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Saints of Molokai is the true story of brave men and women, victims of Leprosy (now called Hansen's Disease) who managed to survive isolation, being deprived of regular food, water, shelter and medicine even though many were deathly ill. The book tells of the tragic disease that attacked the beautiful Islands of Hawaii tearing families apart and destroying lives. Of the courageous men and women who sacrificed their lives going to care for their beloved one suffering with the disease. The book describes Father Damien who cared for the patients like his own children and died of the disease,...
Saints of Molokai is the true story of brave men and women, victims of Leprosy (now called Hansen's Disease) who managed to survive isolation, being d...
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34,01 zł |
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Kava in the Blood: A Personal & Political Memoir from the Heart of Fiji
ISBN: 9781419695766 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The literary device of juxtaposing the story of the Fiji coup against autobiographical reminiscences of a Fiji background works very well. This is an excellent story, beautifully written and skilfully mixing the personal with the political .. The EH McCormick Award for the Best First Book of Non Fiction, sponsored by the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN Inc) and Creative New Zealand, goes to Kava in the Blood by Peter Thomson." - Judges Report, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2000. Entwined through the author's reportage of the 1987 coups is an evocative picture of life in the islands....
"The literary device of juxtaposing the story of the Fiji coup against autobiographical reminiscences of a Fiji background works very well. This is an...
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85,34 zł |
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Queen Emma's Church In Kealakekua: Crossroads of Culture
ISBN: 9781456351724 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Queen Emma's Church in Kealakekua: Crossroads of Culture is a collection of stories, interviews and commentary concerning the life and history of a little Anglican church in Kealakekua, 143 years old. The Anglican denomination first came to the islands with Captain Cook, and returned officially at the urging of Queen Emma and Kamehameha IV. We know a great deal about the American missionaries and the eventual Americanization of these Hawaiian Islands, but not a lot about the British contributions. Americans won the Revolutionary War against England, and in some ways, continued to fight it out...
Queen Emma's Church in Kealakekua: Crossroads of Culture is a collection of stories, interviews and commentary concerning the life and history of a li...
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64,12 zł |
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Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call: A Record, 1790-2010, 2D Ed.
ISBN: 9780786466047 / Angielski / Miękka / 371 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pitcairn Island is arguably the most isolated inhabited spot on Earth. Yet despite tricky ocean currents, oft-times lethal surf, and sudden gales off its coast, the island's standing as the home of the descendants of Fletcher Christian and his mutineer cohorts from H.M.S. Bounty has drawn thousands of ships to its shores. This maritime history of the island chronicles every ship that has called at Pitcairn from the time of the arrival of the mutineers in 1790 to December 2010. The ship's log format lists the date of each call, the ship's name and particulars, and brief reports of activities...
Pitcairn Island is arguably the most isolated inhabited spot on Earth. Yet despite tricky ocean currents, oft-times lethal surf, and sudden gales off ...
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434,07 zł |
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Ua Tala le Ta'ui: Untying the bundles of fine mats
ISBN: 9780981852447 / Samoan / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A bilingual collection of Samoan customary and traditional lore from Tutuila Island. Languages: Samoan and English.
A bilingual collection of Samoan customary and traditional lore from Tutuila Island. Languages: Samoan and English.
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74,09 zł |
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Re-inventing the Ship: Science, Technology and the Maritime World, 1800-1918
ISBN: 9781409418498 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys different historical, geographical, cultural and literary perspectives to examine this transformation and to offer a series of interconnected considerations of maritime technology and culture in a period of significant and lasting change. Its ten authors reveal the processes involved through the eyes...
Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around t...
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751,12 zł |
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Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Metissage
ISBN: 9780822322627 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Monsters and Revolutionaries" Francoise Verges analyzes the complex relationship between the colonizer and colonized on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. Through novels, iconography, and texts from various disciplines including law, medicine, and psychology, Verges constructs a political and cultural history of the island's relations with France. Woven throughout is Verges's own family history, which is intimately tied to the history of Reunion itself.
Originally settled by sugar plantation owners and their Indian and African slaves following a seventeenth-century French... In "Monsters and Revolutionaries" Francoise Verges analyzes the complex relationship between the colonizer and colonized on the Indian Ocean island of...
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475,71 zł |
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Pacific Worlds
ISBN: 9780521887632 / Angielski / Twarda / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. From ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilisations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, Matt Matsuda ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economics and politics, piecing together a history of the region. The...
Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces...
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276,71 zł |
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Pitcairn Island: Life and Death in Eden
ISBN: 9781859284315 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pitcairn Island was a tiny uninhabited Eden when, in January 1790, Fletcher Christian and eight sailors, together with six Polynesian men, twelve Tahitian women and one baby, landed from HMS Bounty. There they burned their boat, thus eliminating any chance of a voluntary return to the known world. Their disappearance was to remain a mystery for twenty years. This book discusses the purposes of the Bounty's voyage, the mutiny and its consequences, but goes further than any previous publications, to relate the gripping drama of subsequent events on Pitcairn - of the fifteen men who landed on...
Pitcairn Island was a tiny uninhabited Eden when, in January 1790, Fletcher Christian and eight sailors, together with six Polynesian men, twelve Tahi...
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650,97 zł |
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Guahan
ISBN: 9780824834814 / Angielski / Twarda / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Goetzfridt's work demonstrates the dynamics of history, each generation considering past events in light of current realities and contemporary understandings of the world. This volume, therefore, is important not simply because it provides us with an invaluable and substantial fount of references that will be supremely useful to teachers, scholars, and all enthusiasts of Mariana Islands history. Its importance lies also in its packaging as a resource for current and future generations to understand the changing face and contested space of Guam history. --from the Foreword by Anne Perez... Goetzfridt's work demonstrates the dynamics of history, each generation considering past events in light of current realities and contemporary unde... |
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314,27 zł |
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