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  • Violence and Religious Change in the Pacific Islands

    de Garry Trompf ...
    Series series Elements in Religion and Violence
    This Element considers patterns of violent behaviour among the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands while their vast region has been undergoing religious change, overwhelmingly toward Christianity. Major topics researched are religion-based violent reactions to early intruders (including missionaries); new religious movements resisting unwanted interference (including 'cargo cults'); anti-colonial ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Violence in Pacific Islander Traditional Religions

    de Garry Trompf ...
    Series series Elements in Religion and Violence
    An Element on the role of violence in the traditional religions of the Pacific Ilands (Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia) and on violent activity in islander religious life after the opening of Oceania to the modern world. This work covers such issues as tribal warfare, sorcery and witchcraft, traditional punishment and gender imbalance. and moves on to consider reprisals against foreign ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Religions of Oceania

    de Garry Trompf, Tony Swain ...
    Series series The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices
    More than a quarter of the world's religions are to be found in the regions of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, together called Oceania. The Religions of Oceania is the first book to bring together up-to-date information on the great and changing variety of traditional religions in the Pacific zone. The book also deals with indigenous Christianity and its wide influence across the ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

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  • The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

    de Wade Davis ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • First Knowledges Songlines

    The Power and Promise

    de Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly ...
    Let this series begin the discussion.' - Bruce Pascoe 'An act of intellectual reconciliation.' - Lynette Russell Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ... Leer más

    $6.59 USD

  • This Horrid Practice

    de Paul Moon ...
    'Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will scarcely be required, we have still stronger to give.' - Captain James Cook This Horrid Practice uncovers an unexplored taboo of New Zealand history - the widespread practice of cannibalism in pre-European Maori society. Until now, many historians have tried to avoid it and many Maori have ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • First Knowledges Law

    The Way of the Ancestors

    de Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn ...
    Our Laws are forever present and provide the pathways for all Australians to truly learn how to belong to this continent.' - June Oscar 'No other current work has been able to so comprehensively explain the significance of traditional law in all its manifestations.' - Henry Reynolds Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines ... Leer más

    $8.09 USD

  • Whispers and Vanities

    Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion

    de Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, Albert Wendt, Vitolia Mo'a, Jenny Plane Te Paa Daniel ...
    This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa's Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions. The address challenges some fundamental aspects of and assumptions in modern Samoan indigenous religious culture. The essays and poetry form a carefully woven ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Voyagers

    The Settlement of the Pacific

    de Nicholas Thomas ...
    An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street JournalThe islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • Bali: A Paradise Created

    de Adrian Vickers ...
    The Island of Bali—a true paradise is explored in this classic travelogue.From the artists and writers of the 1930s to the Eat, Pray, Love tours so popular today, Bali has drawn hoards of foreign visitors and transplants to its shores. What makes Bali so special, and how has it managed to preserve its identity despite a century of intense pressure from the outside world?Bali: A Paradise Created ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The First Migration

    Māori Origins 3000BC AD1450

    de Atholl Anderson ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson’s ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand’s first human inhabitants.Taken from the multi-award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History this Text weaves together ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Su'esu'e Manogi: In Search of Fragrance.

    Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi and the Samoan Indigenous Reference.

    Edición de Tamasailau M. Suaalii-Sauni, I'uogafa Tuagalu, Tofilau Nina Kirifi-Alai, Naomi Fuamatu ...
    This book is a celebration of His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Efi's intellectual and cultural legacy to Samoa, providing Tui Atua's writings and thoughts on Samoan indigenous knowledge. It was first compiled and published as a festschrift in commemoration of his seventiethbirthday. Tui Atua is Samoa'sHead of State and is currently the only holder of one of Samoa's four pāpā ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus