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Imagining the Post-Apartheid State
Berghahn Books 2011; US$ 95.00In northwest Namibia, peoples political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration,... more...
Namoluk Beyond The Reef
Westview Press 2004; US$ 34.00Examines the importance of place to a maintenance of cultural identity among Pacific Islanders more...
Globalizing India
Anthem Press 2005; US$ 85.00This is one of the first books to present a collection of writings on the effects of globalization on India and Indian society. more...
Chanting Down the New Jerusalem
University of California Press 2008; US$ 50.00In this brilliantly evocative ethnography, Francio Guadeloupe probes the ethos and attitude created by radio disc jockeys on the binational Caribbean island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten. Examining the intersection of Christianity, calypso, and capitalism, Guadeloupe shows how a multiethnic and multireligious island nation, where livelihoods depend... more...
Aboriginal Autonomy
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 44.00A plea for a just society, this book is about reconciliation with Australia's Aboriginal people. more...
Obliged to be Difficult
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 32.00This book is an account of government policies and a biographical slice of an outstanding Australian. more...
Tupaia
Random House New Zealand 2012; US$ 27.78'We are often told what great navigators ancient Polynesians were but we've seldom had it demonstrated so convincingly or with such clarity.' Paul Little North & South Tupaia, lauded by Europeans as 'an extraordinary genius', sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and interceded with Maori in NZ. Tupaia,... more...
Aging and Health in Africa
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99Population aging is a matter of global concern. It often occurs in tandem with changes in the health profile of the population. In Africa, many countries are already facing a high burden of communicable diseases. However, as more and more children survive childhood and move on to adult years and old age they are also more likely to experience health... more...
Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java
Anthem Press 2012; US$ 99.00The volume is an ethnographic monograph centring on the island of Java that also makes a singular contribution to the anthropological theorising of the person. more...
Warrigal's Way
University of Queensland Press 2012; US$ 12.99Autobiography of Warrigal Anderson, an aborigine who runs away from the Department he thinks is coming to get him in Moonee Ponds and hops a train he thinks will take him to Swan Hill. Instead he finds himself travelling around Australia through Brisbane and Broome to NZ returning to Melbourne via Sydney. It describes his life and adventures along... more...









