Pacific Websites


BOOKS, FILMS and ONLINE BOOKS

(A) BOOK SITES

ABE Books USA (esp. secondhand, online only including some Australia, online catalog) http://www.abebooks.com

Alibris — Hard-to-find books  http://www.alibris.com/

All Arts Bookshop  http://www.allarts.com.au

Amazon Books USA (huge listing, mainly new, online only, online catalog) http://www.amazon.com

Anah Dunsheath Antiquarian Booksellers (Auckland, NZ) http://www.rarebooks.co.nz

Asia Pacific Press (ANU, Canberra) (publisher's catalog online) http://www.asiapacificpress.com

Association of American University Presses  http://aaup.uchicago.edu/

Barnes & Noble USA http://www.bn.com/

Berkelouw (Sydney & Berrima) (esp.secondhand) http://www.berkelouw.com.au/

Bibliophile bookbase  (antiquarian, rare and out-of-print bookfinder) http://www.bibliophile.net/index.htm

Bishop Museum Press http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/press/

Bishop Museum Scholarly Publications (articles and books available as pdf files) http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/

Bookfinder.com (very useful site, checks many sources and lists in any currency including postage)

Bookstore "De Verre Volken" (Leiden, NL) (online catalog) http://www.ethnographicartbooks.com

Clouston & Hall Booksellers (remainders retailer, online catalog) http://www.pcug.org.au/~clouhall/welcome.htm

CMG Books (Toronto) http://www.cmgbooksandart.com

Crawford House Publishing Aust (Adelaide) http://www.crawfordhouse.com.au

e-Book Mall  (books online for purchase at usually reasonable prices) http://www.ebookmall.com/

eBooks.com (books online for purchase, many academic titles incl 800 anthropology, not cheap) http:www.ebooks.com

Ethnographic Arts Publications  http://www.antiqbook.com/ethnographic/

Fiji Museum Publications (Gift Shop)  http://www.fijimuseum.org.fj/fm-books.htm

Éditions Haere Po Tahiti (some titles in both French and English, and some free to download) http://www.haerepo.com/

Hawaiian Books http://www.europa.com/islandbookshelf/books.htmlT=`

IPS Books, University of the South Pacific Online listing of all publications to date http://www.ipsbooks.usp.ac.fj

Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books (extensive Pacific listings)  http://www.maritimebooks.com.au/

Leiden Ethnographic Museum Bookshop (Holland)  http://www.ethnographicartbooks.com/

Macleay Museum Bookshop (Sydney University) http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/macleay/bbkshop.htm#books

Map South Pacific (maps and guide books)  http://www.mapsouthpacific.com/guides/index.html

Masalai Press (specialising in books about the Pacific, esp. PNG) http://www.alibris.com/stores/masalaipress/

Océanie Afrique Noire (OAN) (New York) http://www.oanbooks.com

Pacific Bookhouse (online catalog) http://www.pacificbookhouse.com.au/framessearch.htm

Pacific Dissertations & Theses from the University of Hawai'i 1923-2008 http://libweb.hawaii.edu/libdept/pacific/html/pacificd&t.htm

Pacific Island Books http://www.pacificislandbooks.com/

Pacific Islands Bookstore  http://www.southpacific.org/books.html

Pacific Manuscripts Bureau http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/pmb.html

Pacific Manuscripts Bureau 2 http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/pambu3.htm; http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/pambu3.htm

Pasifika Press (Auckland NZ) http://www.pasifika.co.nz

Picadilly Books (Auckland NZ) http://www.piccadillybooks.co.nz

Powells Bookstore (Portland OR) (new & used, good online service, online catalog) http://www.powells.com/

Publishers catalogs http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Others/NonAAUP/index.html

Semiotic Review of Books http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/index.html

Serendipity Books (Nedlands WA) (mainly secondhand, online catalog) http://www.iinet.net.au/~serendip/

South Pacific Books (NZ) http://sthpac.netstep.co.nz/

Studies in German Colonial Heritage (in Australia & Pacific) http://home.mysoul.com.au/heritagefutures/HF_biz/SGCH/SGCH.html

SuperSummary (study guide to classic & modern fiction, and some non-fiction, titles) http://www.supersummary.com

Thorntons UK (online catalog) http://www.demon.co.uk/thorntons/catalog.htm

Tribal World Books (Australia) http://www.tribalworldbooks.com.au/

United Nations and International Organisations — list of ethnographic works (click here)

University of Chicago Press http://www.press.uchicago.edu/

University of Hawaii Press http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/index.html

University of Michigan Press  http://www.press.umich.edu/

New South Wales Bookshop  http://www.unireps.com.au/

University of the South Pacific Book Centre http://www.uspbookcentre.com/

WorldCat (international book listing along with libraries holding titles, and best price guide. Really useful.) http://www.worldcat.org/


(B) FILM SITES

ASAfilm (short ethnographic films for general viewing) http://www.theasa.org/publications/asafilm.htm

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/

Central Highlands of PNG, 1950s film online (25 mins., shows the Lutheran mission at work, but of ethnographic interest)) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8800579563639280570

Films about the Pacific http://www2.hawaii.edu/oceanic/film

Moving Images of the Pacific Islands http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/film

Na Maka o ka 'Aina http://www.namaka.com

Ngat is Dead: Studying mortuary traditions (about Ton Otto on fieldwork in Baluan, PNG) http://www.der.org/films/ngat-is-dead.html

Pacific Islanders in Communications http://www.piccom.org

Pacific Stories — Exploring Pacific Islander identity and culture through film https://pacificstories.wordpress.com/

Triton Films (Micronesia) http://www.tritonfilms.com    

 


(C) ONLINE BOOKS

ONLINE BOOK SITES:

ANU E-Press (some full-text titles downloadable as PDF files) http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/index.html

Archive.org (many out-of-copyright books available for pdf or full-text download, including many Pacific titles. Free, but donation suggested to keep it going) http://archive.org/search.php?query

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (many books and articles online) http://www.aciar.gov.au/home and ACIAR Books Online http://www.aciar.gov.au/publication/latest

Fullbooks.com (many full-text free books) http://www.fullbooks.com/

Internet Archive (many full-text downloads) http://www.archive.org/search.php?query

Papuaweb (a great variety of downloadable New Guinea material) http://www.papuaweb.org/

Project Gutenburg e-Books (many full-text downloads, a few on the Pacific) http://www.gutenburg.org AND http://www.gutenberg.net.au

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

Historical M?ori and Pacific Islands Index http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/subject-000010.html

An Account of Samoan History up till 1918, by Te'o Tuvale: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-TuvAcco.html 

Aureretanga: Groans of the Maori (1895), by G. W. Rusden: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-RusAure.html 

Ethnology of Tokelau Islands, by Gordon MacGregor: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-MacToke.html

Ethnology of Manihiki and Rakahanga, by Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa): http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BucMani.html

Ethnology of Tongareva, by Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa): http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BucTong.html

First Lessons in Maori, by William Leonard Williams: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WilFirs.html

The Past and Present of New Zealand; with its Prospects for the Future (1868), by Rev. Richard Taylor ("a missionary, an acute observer of natural and ethnological phenomena."): http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-TayPast.html

Report of the Commission to Inquire Into and Report Upon the Organization of District and Village Government in Western Samoa: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-GovRepo.html

Through Ninety Years 1826-1916 by Frederic W. Williams (Notes on the lives of William and William Leonard Williams, First and Third Bishops of Waiapu):  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WilThro.html

Tutira: A New Zealand Sheep Station, by H. Guthrie-Smith (ecology of a 40,000-he

Sydney e-Search Repository (free online resource of books and papers in a wide range of academic disciplines) http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/

University of Adelaide Press https://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/titles/

University of Technology Sydney, UTS Press http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au

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SOME TITLES

The Austronesians: historical and comparative perspectives Ed. Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox & Darrell Tryon http://epress.anu.edu.au/austronesians_citation.html

Inside Austronesian Houses Ed. James Fox http://epress.anu.edu.au/inside_citation.html

The changing South Pacific: identities and transformations Eds. Serge Tcherkézoff and Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon http://epress.anu.edu.au/csp_citation.html

The Coconut Odyssey by Mike Foale http://www.aciar.gov.au/sites/aciar/files/node/453/mono101.pdf

Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New GuineaNicole Haley & Ron May (eds) http://epress.anu.edu.au/conflict_citation.html

Culture and sustainable development in the Pacific Ed. Antony Hooper http://epress.anu.edu.au/culture_citation.html

Easter Island and its Mysteries by Dr Stéphen Chauvet 1935, trans. Ann Altman ed. Shawn McLaughlin, 2004  http://www.chauvet-translation.com/

‘First Contacts’ in Polynesia: The Samoan Case (1722–1848). Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity by Serge Tcherkézoff http://epress.anu.edu.au/first_contacts_citation.html

Following the Equator by Mark Twain [travels 1895-6 including Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2895/2895.txt

Headhunting in the Solomon Islandsby Caroline Mytinger  (Microsoft Reader eBook) http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/67732-ebook.htm

The Light of Melanesiaby Bishop H.H.Montgomery (1904). Full-text online of this record of the visit by the then Bishop of Tasmania to Norfolk Island, New Hebrides, Banks Islands and the Solomon Islands.    http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/aus/melanesia/montgomery1904/>http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/aus/melanesia/montgomery1904/

Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence Ed. Margaret Jolly, Serge Tcherkézoff & Darrell Tryon http://epress.anu.edu.au/oceanic_encounters_citation.html

Oceanic Explorations: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement Oceanic Explorations: Ed. Stuart Bedford, Christophe Sand & Sean P. Connaughton http://epress.anu.edu.au/terra_australis/ta26/pdf/whole_book.pdf

Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! by Edmund Carpenter: Full text online http://faculty.virginia.edu/phantom

"Progress is great…": making sense of the colonial past in Outback Australia by Eve Vincent http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/3373/4709

Sexual snakes, winged maidens and sky gods: Myth in the Pacific. An Essay in cultural transparency. Edited by Serge Dunis. http://www.haerepo.com/gratuit.html

South Sea Tales by Jack London: Full text online http://www.literature.org/authors/london-jack/south-sea-tales/

Telling Pacific lives Ed. Brij V. Lal & Vicki Luker http://epress.anu.edu.au/tpl_citation.html

The tireless traveller: Twenty letters to the Liverpool Mercury, 1875 by Anthony Trollope [including a chapter on Fiji]. Full text online at http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1d5nb0hv/

The voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: Full text online at http://www.online-literature.com/darwin/voyage_beagle/

FIJI RELATED:

Anthony Trollope on Fiji

Fijian Society By Rev. W. Deane 1921

Mark Twain in Fiji

The natives of Rotuma. By J. Stanley Gardiner, B.A. 1898. Journal  of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27:396-435, 457-524

The Rotuma Website: Transnational Relations and the Articulation of Cultural Identity by Caroline Clark. 2005. MA thesis, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

The Whale Tooth Jack London's fictionalised story of the killing of missionary Thomas Baker (called John Starhurst in this story ) in 1864 in Colo, Fiji.

A time bomb lies buried: Fiji’s road to Independence, 1960-1970 Brij V. Lal

From election to coup in Fiji Ed. Jon Fraenkel & Stewart Firth

The 2006 military takeover in Fiji 2009 Ed. Jon Fraenkel, Stewart Firth & Brij V. Lal


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