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Pasifika : a study of island communities in the Southwest Pacific

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Kava: a bibliography

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Culture, kin, and cognition in Oceania : essays in honor of Ward H. Goodenough

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Von Kokos zu Plastik : Sudseekulturen im Wandel

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Oceania : an introduction to the cultures and identities of Pacific Islanders

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Illustrated history of the South Pacific

Description: An introduction to the history of the South Pacific that covers geology and geography, the arrival of the first people to the Pacific, European exploration, war in the Pacific, political issues both historic and current. There is also specific information on the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and the Polynesian outliers -- abridged publisher summary.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: An introduction to the history of the South Pacific that covers geology and geography, the arrival of the first people to the Pacific, European exploration, war in the…
The kingdom in the Pacific

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
South sea yarns

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Pacific futures : projects, politics, and interests

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Bamboo, lotus and palm: an anthology of the Far East, South-East Asia and the Pacific

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
A select bibliography of the oral tradition of Oceania

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Science, voyages and encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850

Description: "Spanning four centuries and vast space, this book combines the global history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands). Douglas shows how prevailing concepts of human difference, or race, influenced travellers' approaches to encounters. Yet their presuppositions were often challenged or transformed by the appearance, conduct, and lifestyle of local inhabitants. The book's original theory and method reveal traces of Indigenous agency in voyagers? representations which in turn provided key evidence for the natural history of man and the science of race. In keeping with recent trends in colonial historiography, Douglas diverts historical attention from imperial centres to so-called peripheries, discredits the outmoded stereotype that Europeans necessarily dominated non-Europeans, and takes local agency seriously."--Back cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Spanning four centuries and vast space, this book combines the global history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people…
Les Moeurs et costumes de tous les peuples : d'apres le documents les plus authentiques, les voyages les plus recents et des materiaux inedits

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
South Sea yarns

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
In Oceania : visions, artifacts, histories

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Oceania : life in the South Pacific : exhibition texts

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
The art of Oceania : Unesco travelling exhibition

Description: Includes Auckland Museum's storehouse known as Pataka and named Te Oha, carved door-lintel from Patetonga, Hauraki, barge-board of stone house, Moriori sculpture, burial chests, sculpture of Chief Pukaki, food bowl made of sperm whale bone, goddess images from Lifuka, outrigger canoe from Tikopia amongst other artefacts.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Includes Auckland Museum's storehouse known as Pataka and named Te Oha, carved door-lintel from Patetonga, Hauraki, barge-board of stone house, Moriori sculpture, burial…
The South Pacific

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Coral lands

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Aging and its transformations : moving toward death in Pacific societies

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
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Pasifika : a study of island communities in the Southwest Pacific

Kava: a bibliography

Culture, kin, and cognition in Oceania : essays in honor of Ward H. Goodenough

Von Kokos zu Plastik : Sudseekulturen im Wandel

Oceania : an introduction to the cultures and identities of Pacific Islanders

Illustrated history of the South Pacific

The kingdom in the Pacific

South sea yarns

Pacific futures : projects, politics, and interests

Bamboo, lotus and palm: an anthology of the Far East, South-East Asia and the Pacific

A select bibliography of the oral tradition of Oceania

Science, voyages and encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850

Les Moeurs et costumes de tous les peuples : d'apres le documents les plus authentiques, les voyages les plus recents et des materiaux inedits

South Sea yarns

In Oceania : visions, artifacts, histories

Oceania : life in the South Pacific : exhibition texts

The art of Oceania : Unesco travelling exhibition

The South Pacific

Coral lands

Aging and its transformations : moving toward death in Pacific societies

The gift of curiosity