Australia & the Pacific

ISBN: 9781931707954
Published by : Univ Pennsylvania Museum Pubs
Told in Aboriginal art and narrative, the Dreamtime story of the creation and meaning of the Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater in Australia's Western Desert appears here for the first time. Deftly and sensitively Sanday introduces the meaning of the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598742282
Published by : Left Coast Press
The relationship between anthropology and colonial administration is the subject of contentious discussion, and the Roth family figure largely in the history of both. This book examines the relation between anthropology and colonial administrat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841719887
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology is a new series of edited and single-authored volumes intended to make available current work on the archaeology of the recent and contemporary past. The series brings together contributions fr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861591589
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 158
This paper is a considerably revised version of the 1992 British Museum Occasional Paper No. 73 by the same author. The book describes how, when and by whom Hoa Hakanai'a was collected. It also reconstructs the underlying Rapanui aesthetic and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781920691332
Published by : ATF Press
Series: ATF Series
Volume: 15
For much of the 20th century, New Zelaand historians, like most Western scholars, largely took it for granted that as modernity waxed so religion would wane. Secularisation- the fading into insignificance of religion - would distinguish the modern... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781861892454
Published by : REAKTION BOOKS
A comprehensive but not glossy history of Easter Island. Largely devoid of illustrations, Island at the End of the World tells the history of the island called by its inhabitants Rapanui, beginning with its origins, its first inghabitants and th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841716909
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Combining archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence from the islands of Yap and Ulithi, two islands in the Western Caroline Islands, this study reveals a history of more than 1300 years of interaction between the island populations. Drawing on c... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841718088
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This work documents two seasons of archaeological fieldwork (1999, 2001) at the site of Safonfok, a prehistoric monumental site on the southwest coast of Kosrae Island, Kosrae State, Federated States of Micronesia. Here, for the first time in the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841718361
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This monograph represents a new step in Australian archaeology. It presents a detailed quantitative, technological analysis of flaked stone artefacts, of a kind not published previously in Australia. The detailed nature of the analysis reflects th... .... Learn More