Australia & the Pacific

ISBN: 9781921394287
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
The care with which this book has been prepared is simply astonishing. Its history began when Truus and Joost Daalder acquired their first examples of non-European ethnic body adornment around 1980, four years after their arrival in Adelaide. ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714125800
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: Artistic Traditions in World Cultures
Quilts generically known as tivaivai have been produced by women in the Cook Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Society Islands and elsewhere in Eastern Polynesia since the late 19th century, where they were a substitute for bark-cloth but als... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781921394003
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
Donna Leslie, a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne, sets out to demonstrate how Aboriginal art has questioned the 'assimilationist' policies which prevailed in Australia from the 1930s to the 1970s. Her rigorous and su... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415338103
Published by : Routledge Ltd
The Archaeology of Ancient Australia demonstrates with an array of illustrations and clear descriptions of key archaeological evidence from Australia a thorough evaluation of Australian prehistory. Readers are shown how this human past can be ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415338110
Published by : Routledge Ltd
The Archaeology of Ancient Australia demonstrates with an array of illustrations and clear descriptions of key archaeological evidence from Australia a thorough evaluation of Australian prehistory. Readers are shown how this human past can be ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780387757001
Published by : Springer Verlag
This book contains just about everything you might need to know if off to do archaeological work in Oz. It kicks off with a brief history of archaeology in Australia, then looks at Aborignal culture, trade and economics and the differences betw... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780631230823
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This is a detailed introduction to the archaeology of Oceania. It is the first such text to provide integrated treatment of the archaeologies of Australia and the Pacific Islands, with the intention of allowing readers to form a coherent overvi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780631230830
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This is a detailed introduction to the archaeology of Oceania. It is the first such text to provide integrated treatment of the archaeologies of Australia and the Pacific Islands, with the intention of allowing readers to form a coherent overvi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521856560
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia in the Pleistocene. It traces movement from Africa to Australia, offering a new view of population growth at that time, challenging current ideas, and underscorin... .... Learn More