Reference - Dictionaries/Atlases - Languages - Pasifika - countries, culture, arts, languages

A new SAMOA DVD featuring seven stories is now available to buy on DVD (PAL and NTSC format). “SAMOA – Traditional and Historical” includes a dramatisation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s last five years in Samoa, as remembered by Samoans themselves. Other stories revisit the mystery of the sailing vessel, Joyita, the dramatic annual fautasi races, a brief history of Samoa up until Independence, and a light hearted look at the year Hollywood came to Samoa. And four Samoans decide to undergo the ritual proc... read more

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Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. From ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilisations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, Matt Matsuda ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economi... read more

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Dop October 2008, Suva 104pp softcover On a hill overlooking the ocean at a University of the South Pacific campus in Suva, Fiji, three roofs bend and curve into each other over an open space. Within this 'haven of idealists', this 'human reserve', as Joni Madraiwiwi describes it in his introduction to this book, dancers and musicians as well as artists of the Red Wave Collective explore the interface of traditional and contemporary forms of creativity. Red Wave author Katherine Higgins spent time working and talking with ar... read more

Basic language for use in everyday situations.

DoP 2008, Fiji 200pp This book provides a comprehensive examination of the farming and processing components of Fiji's sugar industry. Many important lessons have been learnt or reaffirmed in carrying out this research: for example, the critical importance of secure land title to the farming sector; the need for a cane payment scheme that provides incentives for farmers to maximize the volume and quality of their output; the need for good corporate governance in the milling sector to overcome the agency problems leading to its po... read more

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A collection by Fiji's foremost playwrights - Vilsoni Hereniko, Sudesh Mishra, Jo Nacola, Raymond Pillai, Larry Thomas - as well as up-and-coming writers

Written completely in Samoan this is an explanation of the national sport of cricket, Samoan style. Fully illustrated.

This book views key elements of Cook Islands culture from within as it is, as it was, and as it may become. As well as discussing the familiar aspects of culture (creative arts, language, religion etc.) the various contributors reveal insights into aspects such as the impact of corporate culture, inter-cultural marriage and the changing political culture.

This is a study of the female ritual clowns of Rotuma, a small island north of Fiji. It examines the central role of these women in production of fine mats and the celebration of marriage. Hereniko combines ethnographic accounts with fictional narratives in attempt to convey the intricate interweaving of religion, social hierarchy, gender relations and conflict management in the society.

DOP 2001 124 pages Written by a member of the community, this small book paints an intimate portrait of everyday life in a Fijian village in the Rewa delta in southeastern Viti Levu.

DOP 1988

Helps both children and parents to remember, to understand, and to explain that dying is as much a part of living as being born.

DOP 1995 128 pages Changes in marine & terrestrial ecosystems caused by sea-level rise & climate.

Science of Pacific Island Peoples is a series of four volumes which contains a unique collection of traditional scientific and technical knowledge, from the Pacific Islands. This, the second, volume on Land Use and Agriculture contains chapters on Kiribati, Western Samoia, yam cultivation in Tonga, an irrigated taro agrosystem in Fiji, the impact of mining in Papau New Guinea, taro islets in Chuuk, refuges in Hawai'i, Polynesian forest, aerial photography, yam cultivation in Solomaon Islands, and agroforestry.

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Dop 2008 Tonga 190pp softcover in Tongan Contains some colour photographs.