Papua New Guinea Books


Argonauts of the Western Pacific Best Price: $17.78 This is a real classic in the history of anthropology, published in 1922, and unlike another...	The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific Best Price: $12.95 This is one of the best written historical books that I have ever read. It reads more like a...	Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) Best Price: $33.84 This book is an ethnography of the Dani, a people living in the Grand Valley, a temperate plain...	Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Conduct and Communication) Best Price: $20.91 Now in its second edition, Sound and Sentiment is an ethnographic study of sound as a cultural...	Throwim' Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds Best Price: $4.78 I had never heard of this book, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is about a biologists...



MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign (Modern War Studies) Best Price: $18.94 Outstanding coverage of MacArthur's 1944 New Guinea campaign covering the units and...	Mission Possible: The Wonderful Story of God and a Wyclife Translator in the Jungles of Papua New Guinea Best Price: $3.07 I first bought this book after hearing Marilyn speak. It is almost as good as hearing her in...	Arts of the Pacific Islands Best Price: $7.54	Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea Best Price: $7.82 I'd advise people not to be put off by the 1 star review. I enjoyed this book immensly, though...	Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II Best Price: $6.99 Darkest Hour is not only an excellent historical account of one of the most important...



History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 8: New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944-August 1944 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II) Best Price: $6.26 My 86 year old father served in the New Guinea campaign. Only now, in his later years, has he...	Japanese Army in World War II: "The South Pacific and New Guinea, 1942-43" (Battle Orders) Best Price: $1.91 Japanese Army WWII-S Pacific	Naven: A Survey of the Problems suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe drawn from Three Points of View Best Price: $22.25 This is a wonderful book. Bateson is writing in the mid-1930's about his stay a few years...	Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While Giving Best Price: $15.00 This book offers important insights into the debate about reciprocity. Weiner provides a great...	Papua New Guinea Prints Best Price: $19.94 Papua New Guinea Prints is the first in-depth study of printmaking in Papua New Guinea from its...

Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies Best Price: $26.87	MacArthur's Eagles: The U.S. Air War Over New Guinea, 1943-1944 Best Price: $22.85 MacArthur's Eagles deals with the air war over New Guinea between the 5th Air Force and the...	Papua New Guinea: People politics and history since 1975 I read this book before I was assigned to the United States Embassy as the political officer. I...	Contemporary Pacific Societies: Studies in Development and Change (Exploring Cultures) Best Price: $45.99	Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918 Best Price: $29.97 Kiriwina, the largest of the Trobriand Islands in eastern Papua New Guinea, is anthropology's...

Tree-Kangaroos: Of Australia and New-Guinea (Australian Natural History) (Australian Natural History Series) Best Price: $35.94 To many people, the suggestion that a kangaroo could live up a tree is fantasy. Yet, in the...	Just Talk: Gossip, Meetings, and Power in a Papua New Guinea Village (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, No. 11) Best Price: $30.00 Just Talk examines the often overlooked role of gossip and rumor in creating power in small...	A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua Best Price: $21.04 This book belongs in any library of books on World War II. At the beginning of World War II...	Missionary Lives: Papua, 1874-1914 (Pacific Islands Monograph Series) Best Price: $14.98	Road Through the Rain Forest: Living Anthropology in Highland Papua New Guinea Best Price: $10.00 On the remote, steep slopes of the grassland and rain forests of Highland Papua New Guinea, live...

Throwim Way Leg Adventures In the Jungle Best Price: $24.00	European Impact and Pacific Influence: British and German Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response (International Library of Historical Studies) Best Price: $44.24 British and German ambitions have clashed in the Pacific at many times in the last two...	A History of the Pacific Islands Best Price: $89.18 This is a very well-written introduction to South Pacific history, with the additional bonus of...	Nature, Culture, and History: The "Knowing" of Oceania Best Price: $39.00	Macarthur's New Guinea Campaign (Great Campaigns) Best Price: $22.00 This is a three star book if you are looking for exciting action in heraldic William Manchester...

The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal: Exploring the Ghost Fleet of the South Pacific Best Price: $5.99 Fifty years after the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942, deep diver Robert Ballard went to Iron...	The People of Lake Kutubu and Kikori: Changing Meanings of Daily Life Best Price: $127.23 Having lived with these people the book is very good.	Black Islanders: A Personal Perspective of Bougainville, 1937-1991 Best Price: $18.00 There are few books available to gain an understanding of modern (prior to 1989) Bougainvillian...	Attack on Yamamoto Best Price: $12.00 I found this book to be well written and well researched. It pretty obvious that the author went...	Taim bilong masta: The Australian involvement with Papua New Guinea

In Colonial New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives (Pitt Assn Soc Anth Oceanic) Best Price: $22.85 Papua New Guinea is a place that captures the imagination. It is linguistically, culturally, and...	Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century Best Price: $25.20 In the twentieth century, the Pacific Islands found themselves crunched between centuries of...	Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea Best Price: $18.95 After almost a century of modern-style research, the world is not exactly short of...	Marine Pioneers: The Unsung Heroes of World War II (Schiffer Military/Aviation History) Best Price: $23.36 There are many books written about recognized Marine heros. There were many. There were many men...	United Nations and the Indonesian Takeover of West Papua, 1962-1969: The Anatomy of a Betrayal Best Price: $75.00 Over 2,700 delegates gathered in West Papua's capital of Jayapura in June 2000 for the Papuan...

Cultures of Secrecy: Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults (New Directions in Anthropological Writing) Best Price: $24.95 After driving the Japanese out of Papua New Guinea during World War II, the U.S. military left...	Mammals of New Guinea This book can't be praised highly enough. The text, the maps, and the illustrations all make it...	The Siege of Rabaul Best Price: $12.49 This is a good book for anyone who wants to know details and insights into one of the most...	The Bush Blaster Battalion: Army Anti-Aircraft in New Guinea & The Philippines Best Price: $16.84 Read the little known story of the World War II Army Anti-Aircraft units in the Pacific, and how...	New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific Best Price: $51.00 303 Pages, 11" x 9.5", Paperback, 132 full color plates, 2 maps. An excellent...

Bloodsong The late lord Harold MacMillan's winds of change that started off as a relative gentle breeze in...	The Pacific Islands: Paths to the Present (Nations of the Modern World: Asia) Best Price: $31.92 This accessible volume provides a brief introduction to the institutions, policy concerns, and...	Living Spirits With Fixed Abodes: The Masterpieces Exhibition of the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery Best Price: $80.00	HISTORICAL VINES PB (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry) Best Price: $72.86	New Guinea and Polynesia: Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands: a Cruise in Polynesia and Visits to the Pearl-shelling Stations in Torres Straits of H.M.S. Basilisk Best Price: $19.99 This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1876 edition by John Murray, London.

Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840 Best Price: $5.38	MacArthur's Victory: The War in New Guinea, 1943-1944 Best Price: $6.55 Gailey comes close but just does not capture the struggle in New Guinea completely. Give the...	The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders This history presents an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the experiences of...	Equatorial Glaciers New Guinea Best Price: $249.94	LIGHTNING OVER BOUGAINVILLE (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series) Best Price: $14.95

The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia Best Price: $75.99 The Pacific islands sure look different when viewed from Down Under than they do from up here in...	Paradise: Portraying the New Guinea Highlands	New Guinea: An Island Apart Combining exceptionally beautiful photographs with well-written essays on natural history, this...	Asmat Art: Woodcarvings of Southwest New Guinea	New Lives for Old: Cultural Transformation--Manus, 1928-1953 Best Price: $0.39 When Margaret Mead first studied the Manus Islanders of New Guinea in 1928, they were living...

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