This book is about the Peruvian labor trade in Polynesia, 1862-1864. Harry Maude has been connected with the Pacific Islands ever since 1927, when he read for honors in anthropology at Cambridge University, specializing in the social organization of the islanders. Fascinated by the romance of the South Seas, as portrayed in its literature, Maude joined the British Colonial Service as District Officer in the Gilbert Islands in 1929, and later became Chief Lands Commissioner and eventually Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Colony (now the Republic of Kiribati and Dominion of Tuvalu), the only anthropologist ever to administer a British territory. 
Anticipating the collapse of colonialism he then joined the international South Pacific Commission in charge of regional social development; and on retirement at 50 he accepted an offer to research and write on Pacific Islands history at the Australian National University.

Slavers in Paradise

Maude, H E

Institute of Pacific Studies

Maori, the language of the Cook Islands, consists of a number of mutually intelligible dialects. This dictionary is concerned chiefly with the dialect of Rarotonga, the main island, but many words characteristic of other dialects are also identified.

A Cook Islands Maori Dictionary

Reference

Jasper Buse

Raututi Taringa

Foreign Language Study & Reference

In this book, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega sets the intellectual and legislative agenda on Pacific issues for the next decade. As a delegate from American Samoa, he naturally focuses on the Pacific Island issues, but demonstrates considerable knowledge in Asian security and trade concerns. The author navigates a middle ground between those who see evil in everything that the U.S. does and the Pollyannas that are incapable of seeing any wrong. In readable prose we are mentored through arcane constitutional and treaty issues such as Exclusive Economic Zones, Territorial Status and Nuclear Free Zones. The author is also adept at explaining the more mundane problems of driftnet fishing, and agricultural and commercial policy. But the reader must realize that Eni is a Pacific Islander first and a scholar and practitioner second. Therefore, cultural issues mold his world view and knit together such diverse issues as American Indian policy, media fairness, and trad! e. This book will be valued by Americans and Pacific people alike, for Faleomavaega is one of the few Pacific Islander Americans who is in regular and informed contact with the whole Pacific Region - especially with the 22 Pacific Island nations and territories. He is highly respected throughout for productivity, pragmatism, dedication and integrity. 
Faleomavaega has probably done more than any U.S. Congressman to improve the lot of people throughout the Pacific Island region, and to facilitate a deeper and more mutually beneficial relationship with the United States. In addition to superb service to his electorate (as shown by the fact that he has been re-elected four times in a row and still earns more than double the votes of his nearest rival), he has taken many initiatives for the Pacific Islands region as a whole. 
The book outlines ways in which relations between the United States and the Pacific can be improved to mutual advantage and calls for deeper understanding! of the exceedingly diverse cultures and socio-political systems of this vast region.

Navigating the Future: A Samoan Perspective on U.S.-Pacific Relations

History

Faleomavaega, Eni F. H.

Australia & Oceania

In search of a home

Unknown, Author

Ples Blong Iumi: Solomon Islands, The Past Four Thousand Years

Rotuma: hanua pumue Precious Land

Anselmo

Fatiaki, Daniel

Others

Traditional architecture in Vanuatu

Coiffier, Christian

Understanding Fisheries in the South Pacific

Science & Math

King, Michael G.

Biological Sciences

There is a beginning and an ending to everything that is  alive.  In between is a lifetime.  It is the same for people as it is  for plants and animals, even for the tiniest insects.  Lifetimes helps  both children and parents to remember, to understand and to explain  that dying is as much a part of living as being born.  A moving and  beautiful book.  In Samoan, Tongan, and English.

Lifetimes: Beginnings and endings with Lifetimes in Between

Children's Books

Mellonie, Bryan

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Science of the Pacific Island Peoples is a series of four volumes which contains a unique collection of traditional scientific and technical knowledge from the Pacific Islands. Traditional knowledge, based on accumulated experience or continuous usage, is usually passsed from one generation to the next by work of mouth and demonstration. Having had little attention from the media, education ministries, or development agencies, traditional knowledge is in danger of being forgotten. These books attempt to record some aspects of traditional knowledge before they are lost. This, the first, volume on Ocean and Coastal Studies contains an overview of science of Pacific Island peoples, recommendations for preserving and teaching traditional knowledge, and chapters on fisheries development planning in Vanuatu, fishing on Yap, L\linguistics and central Pacific sailing technology, Roviana women and fishing, marine resource management, environmental planning, marine management in Yap, survival and sustainability in Kiribati, marine conservationin Tokelau, and Pacific navigation and Western science. The other volumes in the series are Land Use and Agriculture (Volume 2); Fauna, Flora, Food and Medicine (Volume 3); and Education, Language, Patterns, and Policy (Volume 4).

Fisheries Development in Fiji: The Quest for Sustainability

Joeli Veitayaki

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