Australian and Pacific Anthropology

This guide contains bibliographic references and links to internet resources for Australian and Pacific Archaeology and Anthropology.

Recommended Reading:

Aboriginal Paintings of Australia: Exploring Cultural Traditions by Carol Finley 1999

Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii by Patrick V. Kirch & Marshall Sahlins 1994

Ancient Tonga & the Lost City of Mu'a by David Hatcher Childress 1996

Arguments About Aborigines: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology by L. R. Hiatt 1996

Beyond a Mountain Valley : The Simbu of Papua New Guinea by Paula Brown 1995

Caging the Rainbow: Places, Politics, and Aborigines in a North Australian Town by Francesca Merlan 1998

Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State by Geoffrey M. White & Lamont Lindstrom (Editors) 1998

Colonizing Hawai'I: The Cultural Power of Law by Sally Engle Merry 2000

Common Words and Single Lives: Constituting Knowledge in Pacific Societies by Verena Keck (Editor) 1998

Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory by Harry Lourandos 1997

Easter Island: Archaeology, Ecology, and Culture by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, et al 1995

Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology and Prehistory by Patrick V. Kirch 1998

The Island Melanesians by Matthew Spriggs 1997

Pacific Latin America in Prehistory: The Evolution of Archaic and Formative Cultures by Michael Blake (Editor) 1999

The Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians: Health and Disease Across a Hunter-Gatherer Continent by Stephen Webb 1995

Prehistory of Australia by Derek John Mulvaney, et al 1999

 

Links:

  1. Aboriginal Studies -- WWW Virtual Library, Australian National University
  2. Archaeology World
  3. Archaeology in Australia - Sponsored by Canberra Archaeological Society
  4. University of Calgary, Current Research in the Pacific
  5. Canberra Archaeological Society
  6. Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Auckland
  7. Center for World Indigenous Studies/Fourth World Documentation Project
  8. CIESIN: Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
  9. Flinders University of South Australia
  10. Guam Historic Resources Division
  11. Hawai'i Resource Library
  12. HMS Pandora (1791) naval frigate
  13. Indigenous Peoples -- Library of Congress
  14. The Javanese House at Serge's Web Site
  15. New Guinea Research Project -- The Field Museum, Chicago
  16. New Zealand Archaeological Association
  17. New Zealand Archaeological Radiocarbon Database from the Waikato Radiocarbon Dating Lab
  18. Pacific Island Studies (Dr. William Ayres), University of Oregon
  19. The Vanuatu Cultural Center
  20. Western Australian Maritime Museum