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Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague [Paperback]
Julie Adams(Author)
$55.00ISBN: 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)
$165.00ISBN: 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 -
Robert Codrington's Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia [Paperback]
Nick Stanley(Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9780861592357
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 235
Robert Codrington (1830–1922) trained to be a priest at Oxford University where he was ordained in 1857. He volunteered to work in Nelson, New Zealand, from 1860–4 and was appointed as headmaster of the Melanesian Mission training scho... .... Learn More -
Ci, Gender and Social Change among the Asmat of Papua, Indonesia [Paperback]
Dr. Onesius O. Daeli(Author)
$45.00ISBN: 9789088909290
Published by : Sidestone Press
Ci is the Asmat word for dugout canoe. The ci is an integral part of the everyday life of the Asmat – an ethnic group residing in eastern Indonesia in Papua province (formerly Irian Jaya) – who live in the middle of a huge tidal swampy... .... Learn More -
Ci, Gender and Social Change among the Asmat of Papua, Indonesia [Hardback]
Dr. Onesius O. Daeli(Author)
$135.00ISBN: 9789088909306
Published by : Sidestone Press
Ci is the Asmat word for dugout canoe. The ci is an integral part of the everyday life of the Asmat – an ethnic group residing in eastern Indonesia in Papua province (formerly Irian Jaya) – who live in the middle of a huge tidal swampy... .... Learn More -
This is not a grass skirt: On fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji [Paperback]
Dr. Karen Jacobs(Author)
$60.00ISBN: 9789088908125
Published by : Sidestone Press
The Pacific ‘grass skirt’ has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualized depiction of Pacific bodies. While these stereotypical portrayals associated with ‘nakedness’ are challenged in this book, the complex uses a... .... Learn More -
This is not a grass skirt: On fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji [Hardback]
Dr. Karen Jacobs(Author)
$180.00ISBN: 9789088908132
Published by : Sidestone Press
The Pacific ‘grass skirt’ has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualized depiction of Pacific bodies. While these stereotypical portrayals associated with ‘nakedness’ are challenged in this book, the complex uses a... .... Learn More -
Yellow Beach 2 after 75 Years: The Archaeology of a WWII Invasion Beach on Saipan and its Historic Context in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands [Paperback]
Boyd Dixon(Author); Brenda Y. Tenorio(Author); Cherie Walth(Author); Kathy Mowrer(Author)
$56.00ISBN: 9781789692587
Published by : Archaeopress Access Archaeology
After 75 years, this story presents archaeological evidence, archival records, and respected elders’ accounts from WWII and the most catastrophic period in Pacific Basin history, and then into modern times on Saipan in the Commonwealth of th... .... 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
