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Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism
ISBN: 9780822370499 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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407,34 |
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The Shark Warrior of Alewai: A Phenomenology of Melanesian Identity
ISBN: 9781907774034 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first anthropological monograph published on the Vula'a people of south-eastern Papua New Guinea, The Shark Warrior of Alewai considers oral histories and Western historical documents that cover a period of more than 200 years in the light of an ethnography of contemporary Christianity. Van Heekeren's phenomenology of Vula'a storytelling reveals how the life of one man, the Shark Warrior, comes to contain the identity of a people. Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, she goes on to establish the essential continuities that underpin the reproduction of Vula'a identity, and to...
The first anthropological monograph published on the Vula'a people of south-eastern Papua New Guinea, The Shark Warrior of Alewai considers oral histo...
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416,71 |
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Tikopia Collected: Raymond Firth and the Creation of Solomon Islands Cultural Heritage: 2017
ISBN: 9781907774393 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During 1928-9 the renowned anthropologist Raymond Firth visited Tikopia, a small island in the east of Solomon Islands, for the first time. This book takes the collection he made as its subject, and explores how through its acquisition, Firth ceased to be a stranger and became a respected figure incorporated into Tikopia society. The objects were originally viewed by Firth as data in a scientific record of a culture, and evidence challenging the belief that complex economic transactions could only take place in a recognizable market economy. Elizabeth Bonshek, however, revisits the... During 1928-9 the renowned anthropologist Raymond Firth visited Tikopia, a small island in the east of Solomon Islands, for the first time. This bo... |
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416,71 |
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Imperial spaces: Placing the Irish and Scots in colonial Australia
ISBN: 9780719078378 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Imperial Spaces" takes two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire -- the Irish and the Scots -- and explores how they imagined themselves within the landscapes of its farthest reaches, the Australian colonies of Victoria and New South Wales. Using letters and diaries as well as records of collective activities such as committee meetings, parades, and dinners, the book examines how the Irish and Scottish built new identities as settlers in the unknown spaces of Empire. Utilizing critical geographical theories of "place" as the site of memory and...
"Imperial Spaces" takes two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire -- the Irish and the Scots -- and explores...
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444,47 |
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Alchemy in the Rain Forest: Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area
ISBN: 9780822359791 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the impacts large-scale commercial gold mining in the region has had on ecology and social relations. Despite the deadly interclan violence and widespread pollution brought on by mining, the uneven...
In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningf...
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447,08 |
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Steadfast Movement Around Micronesia: Satowan Enlargements Beyond Migration
ISBN: 9780739134771 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Steadfast Movement examines how people from Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) move about and their cultural interpretations of movement itself. Special consideration is made of movement on the atoll of Satowan in Chuuk State as intimately associated with clan, lineage, and locality, as well as the influence of a system of local beliefs and attitudes based on combinations of age, marital status, and childbirth.
Steadfast Movement examines how people from Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) move about and their cultural interpretations of m...
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471,92 |
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Bombing the Marshall Islands: A Cold War Tragedy
ISBN: 9781107047327 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive yield of these tests was 108 megatons, equivalent to the detonation of one Hiroshima bomb per day over nineteen years. These tests, particularly Castle Bravo, the largest one, had tragic consequences, including the irradiation of innocent people and the permanent displacement of many native Marshallese. Keith M. Parsons and Robert Zaballa tell the story of the development and testing of thermonuclear weapons and the effects of these tests on their...
During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive yiel...
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472,15 |
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Singing and Survival: The Music of Easter Island
ISBN: 9780190297039 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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476,91 |
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Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia Volume 1
ISBN: 9780252041839 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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496,76 |
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The Indian Ocean in World History
ISBN: 9780195165937 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day. Historian Edward A. Alpers explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region over the course of this long period of time by combining a historical approach with the insights of anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology, and geography. The Indian Ocean witnessed several significant diasporas during the past two millennia, including...
The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and aroun...
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500,44 |
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Substantial Justice: An Anthropology of Village Courts in Papua New Guinea
ISBN: 9781845455613 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. This anthropological study is grounded in ethnographic research on three different village courts and the communities they serve. It also explores the colonial historical background to the establishment of the village court system, and the local and global processes influencing the efforts of... Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance betwe... |
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516,62 |
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Explorations and Entanglements: Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I
ISBN: 9781789200287 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. German Histories and Pacific Histories reconstructs the German elements in the overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits of the "Pacific Worlds." It concentrates on the pre-1914 period and encompasses scientific, cultural, religious and commercial exchanges.
German Histories and Pacific Histories reconstructs the German elements in the overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits of the "Paci...
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516,62 |
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Melanesian Mainstream
ISBN: 9781805392231 / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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516,62 |
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Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World
ISBN: 9781137564887 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean. Many of the essays look at the Indian Ocean before Europeans arrived, reminding the reader that there was a cohesive Indian Ocean. This collection includes empirical studies and essays focused on particular area or production. The essays cover various aspects of trade and exchange, the Indian Ocean as a world-system, East African and Chinese connections with the Indian Ocean World, and the movement of people and ideas around the ocean.
Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean. Many of the e...
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528,21 |
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The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands
ISBN: 9780822354963 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Echo of Things" is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of photography and expectations of the medium in Roviana, as well as people's reactions to photographs made by colonial powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For Roviana people, photographs are unique objects; they are not reproducible, as they are in Euro-American understandings of the medium. Their status as singular objects contributes to their ability to channel ancestral...
"The Echo of Things" is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Chri...
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541,46 |
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Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina
ISBN: 9780822353003 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this groundbreaking study, Denise Cruz investigates the importance of the figure she terms the "transpacific Filipina" to Philippine nationalism, women's suffrage, and constructions of modernity. Her analysis illuminates connections between the rise in the number of Philippine works produced in English and the emergence of new social classes of transpacific women during the early to mid-twentieth century.
Through a careful study of multiple texts produced by Filipina and Filipino writers in the Philippines and the United States--including novels and short stories, newspaper and magazine... In this groundbreaking study, Denise Cruz investigates the importance of the figure she terms the "transpacific Filipina" to Philippine nationalism, w...
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556,36 |
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State of Suffering
ISBN: 9780801446405 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna Trnka was residing in an Indo-Fijian village in the year 2000 during the Fijian nationalist coup. The overthrow of the elected multiethnic party led to six months of nationalist aggression, much of which was directed toward Indo-Fijians. In State of Suffering, Trnka shows how Indo-Fijians' lives were overturned as waves of turmoil and destruction swept across Fiji. Describing the myriad social processes through which violence is articulated and ascribed meaning including expressions of... How do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna Trnka was residing in an Indo-Fijian villag... |
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576,24 |
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Acclimatising to Higher Ground: The Realities of Life of a Pacific Atoll People
ISBN: 9789464260304 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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596,11 |
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Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawai'i
ISBN: 9780813565668 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to examine the collective history and contemporary experiences of the Latinx population of Hawai'i. This study reveals that contrary to popular discourse, Latinx migration to Hawai'i is not a recent event, and explores the expanding boundaries of Latinx migration beyond the western hemisphere and into Oceania.
The first book to examine the collective history and contemporary experiences of the Latinx population of Hawai'i. This study reveals that contrary to...
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596,11 |
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The Pacific Island States: Security and Sovereignty in the Post-Cold War World
ISBN: 9780333633113 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the volatile post-Cold War era, the small, vulnerable states of the Pacific Islands region face several challenges to their security and sovereignty. This book focuses on these challenges, as part of an examination of security and defence issues in the region. It considers trends and issues over the last decade, and the uncertain prospects over the next. The book emphasizes political, diplomatic, and military matters, including the role of external powers, but also considers environmental, economic, and resources issues.
In the volatile post-Cold War era, the small, vulnerable states of the Pacific Islands region face several challenges to their security and sovereignt...
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609,48 |
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