BAD COLONISTS
The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker & Louis Becke
by Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves

Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves provide a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting seperate sets of letters by two late-nineteenth-centrury British colonists.The authors have presented the letters, that are mostly addressed to the colonists mothers, with commentary that explores colonial degeneration in the South Pacific. Using critical anthropology and theories of history-making to view the letter as artefact and autobiography, they examine the process whereby men and women eroded in the midst of the hot, violent, uncivil colonial mileu.
First edition, 1999, card cover, 164pages, B&W photos, maps, ISBN 0-8223-2222-6

$40.00

PROPHETS OF THE HOOD
Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
by Imani Perry

Imani Perry considers the art, politics and culture of Black American hip hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood. Her innovative analysis revels in the artistry of hip hop, revealing it as an art of innovation, not deprivation. The author offers detailed readings of the lyrics of many hip hop artists, including Ice Cube, Public Enemy, De La Soul, KRS-One, Outkasts, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Tupac Shakur, Lil' Kim, Biggie Smalls, Nas, Method Man, Lauryn Hill and Foxy Brown. She focuses on the cultural foundations of the music and on the form and narrative features of the songs-the call and response, the reliance on the break, the use of metaphor, and the recurring figures of the trickster and the outlaw. Hip hop, she suggests, airs a much wider, more troubling range of Black experience than was projected during the civil rights era. It provides a unique public space where the sacred and the profane impulses within African American culture unite.
First edition 2004, card cover, 238 pages, ISBN 0-8223-3446-1

$50.00

PHOTOGRAPHIES OTHER HISTORIES
edited by Christopher Pinney & Nicolas Peterson

This collection essays is firmly grounded in photographic practice, in the actual making of pictures, they deal with extraordinary diversity of non-Western photography. Featured are a selection of papers that were presented at the Looking Through Photogaphs conference that was held at the Queensland Museum in 1998. Includes essays by Jo-Anne Driessens, Michael Aird, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Roslyn Poignant, James Farris, Morris Low, Nicolas Peterson, Christopher Wright, Deborah Poole, Christopher Pinney, Heike Behrend and Stephen Sprague.

First edition 2003, cardcover, 278 pages, fully illustrated with B&W photos, index,
ISBN 0 808223 3113 6

$50.00

NATIVE AMERICAN ART
by William C. Ketchum Jr.

This beautifully illustrated book features the rich artisitic heritage of Native Americans from centuries past to the present day. The broad range of artisitic styles in this book include;ceramics, basketry, beadwork and jewelry, pottery, textiles, dolls and toys, sculpture and clothing. Featured are over 100 colour photographs of rare museum objects through to a broad range of contemporary artworks.
First edition 1997, hardcase cover with dustjacket, 128pages, colour photos
(limited stock) ISBN 0-7651-9225-X

$40.00

reprinted 1996, card cover, 346 pages, illustrations, B&W photos, index
(limited stock) ISBN 0-8070-4615-9

$40.00

SKULL WARS
Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and The Battle For Native American Identity
by David Hurst Thomas

When a 9,000-year-old human skeleton washed out of a Washington riverbank in 1996, it ignited a controversy that has not stopped burning. The controversy and resulting lawsuit raised the fundamental question of 'who owns history'. Archaeologists proclaimed the skeleton one of the most important finds of the century and proceeded to plan extensive scientific analysis, while Native Americans declared such studies a desecration and demanded the skeleton for reburial. An acrimonious and highly public argument ensued, complete with lawsuit.
First edition 2000, card cover, 326 pages, illustrations, B&W photos, index
(limited stock) ISBN 0-465-09225-X

$40.00

DRAWING SHADOWS TO STONE
The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902
by Laurel Kendall, Barbara Mathe and Thomas Ross Miller

This book features a collection of photographs from an early anthropological expedition to the North West Coast of Canada, Alaska and Siberia. In 1897 Morris Jessup, president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, sponsored a five-year expedition to the North Pacific. Under the Direction of anthropologist Franz Boaz, research teams studied the cultural and biological similarities and differences among the several peoples living on both sides of the Bering Strait, the presumed route of migration from Asia to North America. The immense research project left a legacy of classic ethnographies, irreplaceable museum collections, and some three thousand photographs.
1997 cardcover, 112 pages, fully illustrated with B&W photos, map, index
ISBN 0 295 97647 0

$40.00

STORIES OF THE PEOPLE
Native American Voices
National Museum of the American Indian - Smithsonian Institute

Compelling narratives, stories and histories, together with archival photographs and a rich selection of objects are brought together from the collection of the Smithsonian Institute. Pottery, baskets, textiles, beadwork, and other items highlight the beauty of Native artistic expression.
Native Americans from six diverse cultures; Northern Plains, Tuscarora, Cherokee, Makah, Quechua and Western Apache share personal accounts of their origins, the effects of European-American settlement on their communities, and their commitment to preserving cultural values for future generations.
1997 hardcover in dust jacket, 80 pages, fully illustrated with colour and B&W photos
ISBN 0 7893 0084 2

$30.00

NATIVE AMERICANS
Edward S. Curtis

Whenever we open a book or magazine and see and old photographs of Native Americans, chances are the photographer was Edward Sheriff Curtis. Starting in the late 19th century Curtis dedicated over 30 years to his goal of capturing the traditions of the Native Americans in word and image. His portraits have given a lasting face to the Indigenous peoples of the American continent. They are photographs that radiate strength and dignity, images that document a great cultural diversity, and pictures that express the universal values of the individual, the family, the tribe and the nation. This book features over 140 photographs by Curtis.
2001 cardcover, 192 pages, fully illustrated with B&W photos, map
ISBN 3 8228 1353 2

$30.00

PEOPLE OF THE DANCING SKY
The Iroquois Way
photographs by Myron Zabol
profiles by Lorre Jensen

A brilliant introduction to a proud and ancient people. The Iroquois have for centuries lived among the lakes, mountains, rivers and cities of southern Ontario, Quebec and the American northeast. This book features portraits of people from the six Iroquois nations; Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora.
First edition 2000, hardcase cover and dust jacket, 108 pages, fully illustrated in duotone ISBN-0-312-26532-8

$40.00

THE CAPATAIN COOK ENCYCLOPEDIA
written and edited by John Robson

This encyclopedia aims to provide answers on all aspects of the life and voyages of Captain James Cook, and the people, places, events and ships associated with him. Researched and written by leading Cook experts, it both reflects the traditional views of Cook while incorporating the latest reassesments, especially noting the attitudes of the peoples of the Pacific on whose lives Cook made such an impact.
First edition 2004, hard cover with dust jacket, colour & B&W photographs, illustrations, maps, chronology, index ISBN 0-7593-1011-4

$40.00

THE FATAL VOYAGE
Captain Cook's Last Great Journey
by Peter Aughton

Captain Cook had captained two long voyages of discovery and had charted the east coast of Australia, New Zealand and innumerable islands in the Pacific. At the age of 47 he was awarded a comfortable pension for life and looked set to spend his retirement with his family in Greenwich. But after many years at sea he could not succumb to the monotony of life on shore. The Fatal Voyage is the story of his final epic journey when he led an expedition to search for the elusive North West Passage. He set sail from England in July 1776 but was never to return. He was killed in Hawaii in 1779.
First edition 2005, hard cover with dust jacket, colour illustrations, maps, index
ISBN 1-84437-050-X

$40.00

MAKING BLACK HARVEST
Warfare, filmamaking and living dangerously in the Highlands of papua Hew Guinea
by Bob Connolly

After the death of his beloved wife and film-maker partner, Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly read her diaries from the year they had spent filming a vicious tribal struggle in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Living in a grass hut with their two-year-old daughter Katherine, and operating their own camera and sound equipment they recorded 60 hours of footage and the result, the feature-length documentary 'Black Harvest', won awards all around the world. Using Robins diaries as his inspiration, augmented by 60 letters he wrote in the field, Connolly has written a narative that not only sheds light on film-making, but honestly recounts the pair's moral dilemmas as they document the unfolding disaster that overwhelms the people they lived among.
First edition 2005, card cover, colour and B&W photos, maps, glossary
ISBN 0-7333-1574-7

$30.00

MY CHILDHOOD IN NEW GUINEA
by Paulias Matane

Paulias Matane was born into the traditional society of New Britain. This book tells of his childhood through to maturity. It is a fascinating account of times and events seen though the eyes of a man who, in a single lifetime, has traveled far along the road from stone-age to space age.
Oxford University Press, first edition 1972, cardcover, 112 pages, B&W photos, map
ISBN-0-19-550434-8

$15.00

NEO-MELANESIAN DICTIONARY
New Guinea Pidgen-English
compiled by Friedrich Steinbauer

This dictionary contains a list of 1,900 words of the New Guinea Pidgin language, which is also called Neo-Melanesian. This language is one of the most important forms of Pidgin in use today, and is spoken in eastern New Guinea and nearby islands. Arranged in alphabetical order, each term's origin and part of speech is listed. Also included is a concise pronunciation guide.
Reprinted 1998, cardcover, 120 pages (limited stock)
ISBN-0-7818-0656-9

$20.00

PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE
Story of Official & Family Life in Papua New Guinea From 1951-1975
by Rachel Cleland

Written by the wife of the former Administrator for Papua New Guinea, Sir Donald Cleland. This book is a warm personal account of the life and customs of the people of Papua New Guinea, combined with a detailed record of political life and the events leading to Independence.
Second edition 1985, cardcover, 366 pages, B&W photos, illustrations, maps, glossary, index
ISBN-0-9589354-0-8

$20.00

TWO WOMEN, TWO WORLDS
Friendship Swept by Winds of Change
by Audrey McCollum

One of them grew up in a Park Avenue apartment, haunted by a painful childhood, deserted by her father, her mentally ill mother committed to a hospital. She became a physcotherapist. The other grew up in a dirt-floor hut shared by pigs, in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea. She married a polygamist whose family gave "bride price" to her family and whose fifth wife attacked her with a knife. She became a feminist activist. Somehow, they met. With the heart of a mother and the attuned intellect of an experienced United States psychotherapist, Audrey McCollum explores the life of Pirip Kuru. McCollum discovers that she needs to suspend her Western feminist perspective in order to see Pirip clearly. The more she discovers about Pirip the more she discovers about herself. Her poignant memories lend an incredible strength to a story of cross-cultural understanding and gender equality.
First edition 1999, cardcover, 216 pages, colour plates, maps
ISBN-0-9666896-0-7

$30.00

A DISTANT PLACE, A DIFFERENT VOICE
TWENTY YEARS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
By Susan Turner

A beautifully illustrated book featuring photographs by Susan Turner who has spent fourteen of the past twenty years living in Papua New Guinea. These photographs reach far beyond a visitor's curiosity or a researcher's ethnography. Her view is much more from the inside than from the outside. The Indigenous people featured in these photographs are gracious and natural collaborators. These tender yet authoritative photographs show remarkable people in their work as hunters, gatherers, and farmers, sharing the hope and persistence that are at the centre of their lives. Each book is signed by Susan Turner.
First edition 2003, cardcover, 48 pages, duotone photographs
ISBN-0-9722908-1-8

$30.00

THE PETER HALLINAN COLLECTION OF MELANESIAN ART

Limited edition Sotheby's auction catalogue of 490 copies. Many of the artifacts in this Queensland collection have not been illustrated elsewhere. Numerous unique specimens are shown for the first time. Each artifact includes provenance, most with precise point of field collection. Hardcover in dust jacket, 120 pages with 167 pieces illustrated in colour with two maps.
ISBN 0 646 12382 3

$40.00

first edition 1999, card cover, 256 pages, forward, glossary, tables, graphs, index
(limited stock) ISBN 1-86333-175-1

$30.00

AKONO'ANGA MAORI
Cook Islands Culture
edited by Ron Crocombe and Marjorie Tau'inekore Crocombe

A comprehensive book that documents many aspects of Cook Islands culture. Contributors include; 'Aka'iti Ama, Marjorie Tau'inekore Crocombe, Maureen Goodwin, Hakaoro Tau'uri Hakaoro, John Herrmann, Jon Tikivanotau Jonassen, Kauraka Kauraka, Anna Koteka, Te'atamira Makirere, Jean Tekura'I'imoana Mason, Paiere Mokoroa, Vereara Ngarangi Monga-Maeva, Patricia Numa, Lydia Sijp-Marsters, Mapu Tai'a, Karen Ta'irea, Mereana Taikoko, Mahiriki Tangaroa, Michael Tavioni, 'Arerangi Tongia, Makiuti Tongia, Mamia Tunui-Savage, Bobby Turua, Gill Vai'imene, Nihi Vini, Va'ine Wichman and Sonny Williams.
First edition 2003, hardcase cover and dust jacket, 370 pages, B&W and colour photographs, illustrations, maps, index
(Limited stock) ISBN-982-02-0348-1

$60.00

ROOTS OF REVOLUTION
A History of the Populist and Socialist Movements in 19th Century Russia
by Franco Venturi

First published in 1959 and long recognised as a classic this is the revised edition of Franco Venturi's famous account of the most fascinating period of Russian revolutionary history. Taking as a starting date the 1848 revolution which chrystalized Populist ideology in the minds of herzen, Bakunin, Chernyshevsky and other intellectuals, Venturi examines Russia's internal and external problems and the ideals and beleifs of her subjects in so far as they touch on the formation and development of Populism. The core of the book concentrates on an account of the conspiracies and struggles through which Populism expressed itself.
Reprinted 2001, card cover 850 pages, index (Limited stock) ISBN 1-84212-253-3

$50.00