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• Australian South Sea Islanders: A Report on the Current Status of South Sea Islanders in Australia (ACSJC occasional paper #8; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, ca. 1991), by Herbert Vere Evatt Memorial Foundation (PDF in Australia)

• Australian South Sea Islanders: A Report on the Current Status of South Sea Islanders in Australia (ACSJC occasional paper #8; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, ca. 1991), by Herbert Vere Evatt Memorial Foundation (PDF in Australia)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• "First Contacts" in Polynesia: The Samoan Case (1722-1848); Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity (2008), by Serge Tcherkézoff (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• "First Contacts" in Polynesia: The Samoan Case (1722-1848); Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity (2008), by Serge Tcherkézoff (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• The Melanesians of British New Guinea (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1910), by C. G. Seligman, contrib. by F. R. Barton and E. L. Giblin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier (HTML at UC Press)

• Kinship in the Admiralty Islands (from the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History; 1934), by Margaret Mead (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier (HTML at UC Press)

• Kinship in the Admiralty Islands (from the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History; 1934), by Margaret Mead (page images at HathiTrust)

• Conceiving Cultures: Reproducing People and Places on Nuakata, Papua New Guinea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Shelley Mallett (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mountain Arapesh (5 papers published in the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 1938-1949), by Margaret Mead
  • I. An Importing Culture: PDF at amnh.org
  • II. Supernaturalism: PDF at amnh.org
  • III. Socio-Economic Life, and IV. Diary of Events in Alitoa: PDF at amnh.org
  • V. The Record of Unabelin with Rorschach Analyses: PDF at amnh.org
  • I-IV: page images at HathiTrust

• The Heart of the Pearl Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by James F. Weiner (HTML at UC Press)

• Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Eric Kline Silverman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Eric Kline Silverman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Eric Kline Silverman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Eric Kline Silverman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Folk-Tales of the Kiwai Papuans (Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae book 47; Helsinki: Printing-Office of the Finnish Society of Literature, 1917), by Gunnar Landtman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Tracing the Melanesian Person: Emotions and Relationships in Lihir (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013), by Susan R. Hemer (multiple formats with commentary at Adelaide)

• Maring Hunters and Traders: Production and Exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Christopher J. Healey (HTML at UC Press)

• Maring Hunters and Traders: Production and Exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Christopher J. Healey (HTML at UC Press)

• Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Edward LiPuma (page images at HathiTrust)

• Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Edward LiPuma (page images at HathiTrust)

• Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Edward LiPuma (page images at HathiTrust)

• Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Gilbert H. Herdt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Gilbert H. Herdt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Baloma: The Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands, by Bronislaw Malinowski (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Tuma Underworld of Love: Erotic and Other Narrative Songs of the Trobriand Islanders and Their Spirits of the Dead (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), by Gunter Senft (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Growing up on the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea: Childhood and Educational Ideologies in Tauwema (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2018), by Barbara Senft and Gunter Senft (PDF and Epub with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Memoirs of the Polynesian Society (partial serial archives)

• The Maori and His Religion in Its Non-Ritualistic Aspects (new edition; HAU Classics series #1; c2012), by J. Prytz-Johansen, contrib. by Marshall Sahlins (HTML and PDF files at haujournal.org)
• Maori Religion and Mythology, Illustrated by Translations of Traditions, Karakia, &c., to Which Are Added Notes on Maori Tenure of Land (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1882), by Edward Shortland (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• "First Contacts" in Polynesia: The Samoan Case (1722-1848); Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity (2008), by Serge Tcherkézoff (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• The Hawaiian Planter, Volume I: His Plants, Methods and Areas of Cultivation (only volume published; Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #161; Honolulu: The Museum, 1940), by E. S. Craighill Handy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii (Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools Press, c1961), by Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii (Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools Press, c1961), by Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust (originally published 2006; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017), by Samuel P. King and Randall W. Roth
  • multiple formats with commentary at Hawaii
  • HTML at Project MUSE

• Archaeology of Kahoolawe (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #115; Honolulu: The Museum, 1933), by J. Gilbert McAllister (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Archaeology of Kauai (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #80; Honolulu: The Museum, 1931), by Wendell Clark Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archaeology of Nihoa and Necker Islands (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #53; Honolulu: The Museum, 1928), by Kenneth P. Emory (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archaeology of Nihoa and Necker Islands (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #53; Honolulu: The Museum, 1928), by Kenneth P. Emory (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archaeology of Oahu (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #104; Honolulu: The Museum, 1931), by J. Gilbert McAllister (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Maoris and Their Arts (American Museum of Natural History Guide Leaflet #71; 1928), by Margaret Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of Maoriland (London: W. Clowes and Sons, ca. 1910), by Ellen Ida Massy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Who Are the Maoris? (Christchurch et al.: Whitcombe and Tombs, n.d.), by Alfred K. Newman (page images in New Zealand)
• A Trip to Maoriland (Lake Placid, NY: Office of The Lake Placid news, c1907), by Pākehā-Māori
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Tarawera Eruption, 1886 (London: Proprietor of the "Empire Review", ca. 1903), by Ellen Ida Massy (illustrated HTML in New Zealand)

• A Bibliography of Printed Maori to 1900 (Dominion Museum monograph #7; 1924), by Herbert W. Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Legends of the Maori (2 volumes; originally published 1930-1934), by Maui Pomare and James Cowan
  • Volume I: multiple formats with commentary in New Zealand
  • Volume II: multiple formats with commentary in New Zealand

• Why Reject the Treaty? A Maori-Pakeha Viewpoint (2008), by Emily Bailey (PDF with commentary at Rebel Press)
• The Maori Messenger (Ko te Karere Maori) (partial serial archives)
• Te Manuhiri Tuarangi Maori Intelligencer (1861) (full serial archives)

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