Books published by Oxford University Press

This is an ethnographic study of kinship and the nature and behaviour of ownership amongst the much-studied Sepik River Iatmul people. Written from the viewpoint of a Melanesian scholar, this book seeks to re-think anthropology's central assumptions about social relations.

A radical new history of conquest through the ages, showing how conquering societies have established their claims to the lands of the conquered and how this has affected the invaded peoples, the invaders themselves, and the wider world

Feinberg compiles historical narratives from the island of Anuta, an isolated and largely traditional community in the eastern Solomon Islands. He includes both the original texts and the translations, and his annotations provide essential ethnographic and historical context that ...

Tracing the Pacific and colonial history, this book consists of multiple studies of the interconnections between culture and imperial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines the European presence in contested territories such as Tahiti, New Caledonia, and Wal ...

Explores the history of the Citizen Military Forces (CMF), predecessors to today's Army Reserve. McCarthy exposes the exclusion from operational service in Vietnam, the half-century of neglect from the regular Army, and the diminution of the role of the 'brilliant amateur'.