Aliens on Our Shores: An Anthropological History of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea 1616 to 1914

Aliens on Our Shores is a deep dive into the mutual perceptions of a group of Melanesian peoples -- egalitarian societies unknown to Europeans for thousands of years -- and successive waves of European explorers, traders, plantation owners, missionaries, and eventual conquerors. This anthropological history makes use of existing information on political, social, and cultural organization of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, villages, supplemented by the authors' comparative social research ski...