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  • Found in Translation

    Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission

    by Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, April Henderson, Laura Rademaker ...
    Series series Indigenous Pacifics
    Found in Translation is a rich account of language and shifting cross-cultural relations on a Christian mission in northern Australia during the mid-twentieth century. It explores how translation shaped interactions between missionaries and the Anindilyakwa-speaking people of the Groote Eylandt archipelago and how each group used language to influence, evade, or engage with the other in a series ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Sweat and Salt Water

    Selected Works

    by Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa, Professor Tarcisius Kabutaulaka ...
    Series series Pacific Islands Monograph Series
    On 21 March 2017, Associate Professor Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa passed away at the age of forty-eight. News of Teaiwa’s death precipitated an extraordinary outpouring of grief unmatched in the Pacific studies community since Epeli Hau‘ofa’s passing in 2009. Mourners referenced Teaiwa’s nurturing interactions with numerous students and colleagues, her innovative program-building at Victoria University ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Everything Ancient Was Once New

    Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki

    by Emalani Case, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, April K. Henderson ...
    Series series Indigenous Pacifics
    In Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestral homeland for Kānaka Maoli (Hawaiians) and the knowledge that there is life to be found beyond Hawaiʻi’s shores. Kahiki is therefore both a symbol of ancestral connection and the potential that comes with remembering and acting upon that connection ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Morning Star Rising

    The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua

    by Camellia Webb-Gannon, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, April K. Henderson ...
    Series series Indigenous Pacifics
    That Indonesia’s ongoing occupation of West Papua continues to be largely ignored by world governments is one of the great moral and political failures of our time. West Papuans have struggled for more than fifty years to find a way through the long night of Indonesian colonization. However, united in their pursuit of merdeka (freedom) in its many forms, what holds West Papuans together is greater ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • A History of Modern Indonesia

    by Adrian Vickers ...
    Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island country, comprising some 240 million people, from the colonial period through revolution and independence to the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Will to Improve

    Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics

    by Tania Murray Li ...
    The Will to Improve is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that enable experts to diagnose problems and devise interventions, and the agency of people whose conduct is targeted for reform. Deftly integrating theory, ethnography, and history, she illuminates the work ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Ethnic Relations in Malaysia: Conflict and Harmony

    by Syed Husin Ali ...
    With Malaysia in the throes of sweeping political change, academic turned political activist and presently, Senator from Selangor state to the Parliament, Dr Syed Husin Ali traces how ethnicity has been manipulated, since Independence, by Malaysian politicians for their own gain to the detriment of the masses. In articles spanning more than three decades, collected for the first time here, he ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dispossession and the Environment

    Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

    by Paige West ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Virtual Thailand

    The Media and Cultural Politics in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore

    by Glen Lewis ...
    Series series Rethinking Southeast Asia
    Written by an established expert on Thailand, this is one of the first books to fully investigate the Thai media’s role during the Thaksin government’s first term. Incorporating political economy and media theory, the book provides a unique insight into globalization in Southeast Asia, analyzing the role of communications and media in regional cultural politics.Examining the period from the mid ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Ethno-erotic Economies

    Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya

    by George Paul Meiu ...
    Ethno-erotic Economies explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars and on beaches, young men deliberately cultivate their images as sexually potent African men to attract women, sometimes for a night, in other cases ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Seeds We Planted

    Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School

    by Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    In 1999, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hālau Kū Māna, a secondary school that remains one of the only Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in urban Honolulu. The Seeds We Planted tells the story of Hālau Kū Māna against the backdrop of the Hawaiian struggle for self-determination and the U.S. charter school movement, revealing a critical ... Read more

    $17.99 USD