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  • Naturalist Histories

    Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania

    by Jamon Alex Halvaksz II, Joshua A. Bell, Dr. A. Ross Gordon, Edvard Hviding, Lamont Lindstrom, Richard Scaglion, Maria Lepowsky, Carlos Mondragon, Barry Craig0, Dr. Leah Lui-Chivizhe1, Jennifer Newell2, Paige West3 ...
    From early explorers to contemporary scientists, naturalists have examined island flora and fauna of Oceania, discovering new species, carefully documenting the lives of animals, and creating work central to the image of Oceania. These “discoveries” and exploratory moves have had profound local and global impacts. Often, however, local knowledge and communities are silent in the ethologies and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Ethnographic Experiment

    A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908

    Edited by Cato Berg, Edvard Hviding ...
    Series Book 1 - Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists
    In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Ethnographic Experiment

    A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908

    Edited by Edvard Hviding, Cato Berg ...
    Series Book 1 - Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists
    In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Islands of Rainforest

    Agroforestry, Logging and Eco-Tourism in Solomon Islands

    by Edvard Hviding, Tim Bayliss-Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: An original and thought-provoking analysis of modern initiatives in the tropical rain forest. While issues such as logging, eco-timber, eco-tourism have been widely analyzed from an outsider’s perspective, this book considers them from the local people’s viewpoint, in terms of a long history of the rainforest uses. The authors demonstrate that the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    The Puzzle of Polynesia

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  • The Reef

    A Passionate History

    by Iain McCalman ...
    Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine hundred islands, and thousands of marine species, and has alternately been viewed as a deadly maze, an economic bounty, a scientific frontier, and a precarious World Heritage site. Now the historian and explorer Iain McCalman takes us on a new ... Read more

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  • The Great Ocean

    Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush

    by David Igler ...
    The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Pacific, and European and American dreams of scientific exploration, trade, and empire grew dramatically. By the time of the ... Read more

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  • The Sounding of the Whale

    Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century

    by D. Graham Burnett ...
    "This wonderful book documents the interplays among science, conservation and politics in the evolving career of the whale over the last century." —William Perrin, Senior Scientist for Marine Mammals at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries ServiceFrom biblical times, whales have breached in the human imagination as looming figures of terror, power, confusion, and mystery. In the ... Read more

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  • The Statues that Walked

    Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

    by Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo ...
    T****he monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific islands, have ... Read more

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  • Dark Laboratory

    On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis

    by Tao Leigh Goffe ...
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  • On the Backs of Tortoises

    Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden

    by Elizabeth Hennessy ...
    An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world.Finalist for the 2020 E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, sponsored by PEN America Literary AwardsThe Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this ... Read more

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  • The Edge of Memory

    Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World

    by Patrick Nunn ...
    How much of the folk tales of our ancestors is rooted in fact, and what can they tell us about the future?In today's society it is the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a history textbook over the version of history retold by a friend – after all, human memory is unreliable, and how can you be sure your friend hasn't embellished the facts? But ... Read more

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