London. Thames & Hudson. 2012. Maps, 507 colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 536 pages, notes, black cloth covered boards lettered in silver on spine. Dustjacket a faded on spine still a very good copy. "The arts of Oceania are astonishing: great statues, daunting tattoos, dynamic carving, dazzling woven..... More
Ultimo. Ultimo Press. 2024. 310pp. Paperback. New. "Arriving in Australia seeking asylum, Fina dedicates herself to aiding the refugees who are held in Port Camden, a remote island outpost. After she speaks out for those being detained, Fina becomes the focus of a media storm that leads to her arrest..... More
Singapore. Marshall Cavendish. 2013. 263pp. Paperback. "In Thong Tran's Vietnam, everyone is at war and no one is who they seem. But even a conflicted heart needs a home. Yearning for a true father and a cause to give himself to, Thong chooses independence, liberty and happiness - his tutor..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2023. Black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 249pp, bibliography, index. Hardback. New. "A study of interlocutor reference that significantly deepens our understanding of the ways in which self-other relations are linguistically mediated in social interaction, based on the analysis of Southeast Asian languages. Terms used by..... More
Singapore. Penguin. 2021. vii + 284pp. Paperback. New. "A coming of age epic, set during the decade Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the world as seen through the eyes of his indentured Malay slave. Who was the man they called Enrique the Black? Taken from his family, and forced into slavery during..... More
Canberra. Australian National University Press. 2011. Maps, black and white and colour photography, 204 pages, references, tall quarto, paperback. "This volume emerges from a ground-breaking conference held in the Republic of Palau on cultural heritage in the Pacific. It includes bold investigations of the role of cultural heritage in identity-making..... More
Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Press. 1994. Maps, contents, black and white photographic illustrations, black and white line drawings, bibliography, index, + 246pp., a very good copy in paperback. "As he challenges classical semiological accounts of cultural representations in this enthnology of Melanesian religious phenemenology, Maschio shows that ritual and poetic..... More
Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. 2011. ix + 281 pages, index, bibliography, notes, dustjacket. This study analyzes an important feature in English-language Malaysian fiction that has been considerably neglected in scholarship - the theme of religion. Through interrogating this theme, the multilayered textures of cultural memories that are infused..... More
Canberra. Pandanus Books. 2004. Translated by Vladislav Zhukov. xii + 168pp, paperback. "Nguyen Du was a Vietnamese official displaced in a dynastic shift and sent into provincial exile in the service of his new overlord. The epic poem, Kim Vân Kieu, was his most notable work during this period. This..... More
London. Penguin. 2022. 355pp. Paperback. "It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is..... More