Berghahn Series

ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology

Editor:
Rupert Stasch, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

The Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) is an international organization dedicated to studies of Pacific cultures, societies, and histories. This series publishes monographs and thematic collections on topics of global and comparative significance, grounded in anthropological fieldwork in Pacific locations.

The Editor welcomes inquiries and proposals from any authors of Pacific-focused scholarship.

• Volume 15
  

  Enacted Relations

  Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community

  Franca Tamisari

  Published: 2024
  
• Volume 14
  

  Ӧmie Sex Affiliation

  A Papuan Nature

  Marta Rohatynskyj

  Published: 2022
  
• Volume 13
  

  Fire on the Island

  Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu

  Tom Bratrud

  Published: 2022
  
• Volume 12
  

  In Memory of Times to Come

  Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea

  Melissa Demian

  Published: 2021
  
• Volume 11
  

  Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters

  New Lives of Old Imaginaries

  Edited by Jeannette Mageo and Bruce Knauft
  Afterword by Margaret Jolly

  Published: 2021
  
• Volume 10
  

  Money Games

  Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town

  Anthony J. Pickles

  Published: 2019
  
• Volume 9
  

  Dreams Made Small

  The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia

  Jenny Munro

  Published: 2018
  
• Volume 8
  

  Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters

  Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations

  Edited by Jeannette Mageo and Elfriede Hermann

  Published: 2017
  
• Volume 7
  

  Mortuary Dialogues

  Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

  Edited by David Lipset and Eric K. Silverman
  Foreword by Shirley Lindenbaum

  Published: 2016
  
• Volume 6
  

  Engaging with Strangers

  Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands

  Debra McDougall

  Published: 2016
  
• Volume 5
  

  The Polynesian Iconoclasm

  Religious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power

  Jeffrey Sissons

  Published: 2014
  
• Volume 4
  

  Creating a Nation with Cloth

  Women, Wealth, and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora

  Ping-Ann Addo

  Published: 2013
  
• Volume 3
  

  The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

  Custom and Conflict in East New Britain

  Keir Martin

  Published: 2013
  
• Volume 2
  

  Christian Politics in Oceania

  Edited by Matt Tomlinson and Debra McDougall
  With an Afterword by Webb Keane, University of Michigan

  Published: 2012
  
• Volume 1
  

  The Anthropology of Empathy

  Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies

  Edited by Douglas W. Hollan and C. Jason Throop

  Published: 2011