Books written by Douglas L. Oliver
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Polynesia in Early Historic Times
On the Polynesian subgroup as a problem for Irwin's continuous settlement hypothesis . In Man and a half : Essays in Pacific anthropology and ethnobiology in honour of Ralph Bulmer , edited by A. K. Pawley , 387-410 .
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Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands
When the corpse was placed in the grave ( or on the tree platform ) the ceremonial leader called out the sacred names ... In other cases divination was resorted to , and if a human culprit were indicated revenge was sought either ...
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Black Islanders: A Personal Perspective of Bougainville, 1937-1991
This history, written by an anthropologist with 50 years of fieldwork experience in the area, takes a comprehensive look at the troubled island of Bougainville. Includes up-to-date information on the...
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Black Islanders: A Personal Perspective of Bougainville, 1937-1991
Bougainville is seldom out of the news, yet how much do the press, the financial and mining world and the politicians understand events on that island? The Pacific's most damaging...
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Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands
Even before Western contact, the Pacific Islanders inhabited nearly every island north and east of Australia - a thousand distinctive peoples. This overview of the cultures of the Pacific Islands...
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Bougainville: A Personal History
Bougainville: A Personal History
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Ancient Tahitian Society
Volumes 1 and 2 of this work are a reconstruction of the Islanders’ way of life as it was believed to have been just before it began to be transformed by European influence—a period labeled the Late Indigenous Era.