Oceania
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Australia’s Ancient Aboriginal Past: A Global Perspective [Paperback]
Murray Johnson(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781925003710
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
This book places the Aboriginal occupation of Australia within a broad framework of human evolution and habitation. The author discusses the pioneering studies that delve into the mists of antiquity, and he engages with current controversies, incl... .... Learn More -
Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague [Paperback]
Julie Adams(Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9789088906350
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 8
In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his travels in the South Pacifi... .... Learn More -
Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague [Hardback]
Julie Adams(Author)
$195.00ISBN: 9789088906367
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 8
In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his travels in the South Pacifi... .... Learn More -
Roman Warships [Paperback]
Michael Pitassi(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781783274147
Published by : Boydell Press
The Roman Imperial Navy was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed, prior to the European naval development of relatively recent centuries. It was able to deploy huge fleets and dominate the seas around western Europe, north Africa,... .... Learn More -
Burial, Landscape and Identity in Early Medieval Wessex [Hardback]
Kate Mees(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783274178
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Volume: 35
Burial evidence provides the richest record we possess for the centuries following the retreat of Roman authority. The locations and manner in which communities chose to bury their dead, within the constraints of the environmentaland social milieu... .... Learn More -
Resonant Histories: Pacific artefacts and the voyages of the HMS Royalist 1890-1893 [Paperback]
Alison Clark(Editor); Eve Haddow(With); Christopher Wright(With)
$85.00ISBN: 9789088906299
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 6
This book explores a complex relational assemblage, a collection of 1481 Pacific artifacts brought together by Captain Edward Henry Meggs Davis, during the three voyages of HMS Royalist between 1890-1893. The collect... .... Learn More -
Resonant Histories: Pacific artefacts and the voyages of the HMS Royalist 1890-1893 [Hardback]
Alison Clark(Editor); Eve Haddow(With); Christopher Wright(With)
$255.00ISBN: 9789088906305
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 6
This book explores a complex relational assemblage, a collection of 1481 Pacific artifacts brought together by Captain Edward Henry Meggs Davis, during the three voyages of HMS Royalist between 1890-1893. The collect... .... Learn More -
Tiki: Marquesan Art and the Krusenstern expedition [Paperback]
Dr. Elena Govor(Editor); Nicholas Thomas(Editor)
$85.00ISBN: 9789088906909
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 5
Created across the six islands of a remote archipelago in eastern Polynesia, the art of the Marquesas is one of the world’s most distinctive and remarkable art traditions. Though exhibited in major museums around the world, M... .... Learn More -
Tiki: Marquesan Art and the Krusenstern expedition [Hardback]
Dr. Elena Govor(Editor); Nicholas Thomas(Editor)
$255.00ISBN: 9789088906916
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 5
Created across the six islands of a remote archipelago in eastern Polynesia, the art of the Marquesas is one of the world’s most distinctive and remarkable art traditions. Though exhibited in major museums around the world, Marquesan art is ... .... Learn More -
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages [Paperback]
Larissa Tracy(Editor); Anthony Adams(Contributor); Charlene Eska(Contributor); Ellen Lorraine Friedrich(Contributor); Jack Collins(Contributor)
$25.95ISBN: 9781843845249
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervadesa number of medie... .... Learn More
