Oceania
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The Dystopia in the Desert: The silent culture of Australia’s remotest Aboriginal communities [Paperback]
Tadhgh Purtill(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781925333862
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
The Ngaanyatjarra Lands, deep in Western Australia, are home to Australia’s most remote Aboriginal communities. Beset by social problems, the communities and their residents are detached from mainstream Australia by factors of distance and c... .... Learn More -
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 -
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 -
Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia [Paperback]
Michael D.J. Bintley(Editor); Thomas J.T. Williams(Editor); Della Hooke(Contributor); Eric Lacey(Contributor); John Baker(Contributor); Michael Bintley(Editor)
$25.95ISBN: 9781783273690
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Volume: 29
For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environments inhabited by their human contemporaries. Other... .... Learn More
