Oceania
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Ancestors, artefacts, empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish museums [Hardback]
Gaye Sculthorpe(Editor); Maria Nugent(Editor); Howard Morphy(Editor)
$95.00ISBN: 9780714124902
Published by : British Museum
Museums across Great Britain and Ireland hold Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (collectively referred to as ‘Indigenous’) cultural heritage of exceptional value, but which is largely unknown, rarely seen, and poorly understood. Gi... .... 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 -
Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth: Cloth, Collections, Communities [Hardback]
Prof. Frances Lennard(Editor); Dr. Andy Mills(Editor)
$195.00ISBN: 9789088909726
Published by : Sidestone Press
Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to the lives of islanders and used for clothing, furnishing... .... Learn More -
Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth: Cloth, Collections, Communities [Paperback]
Prof. Frances Lennard(Editor); Dr. Andy Mills(Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9789088909719
Published by : Sidestone Press
Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to the lives of islanders and used for clothing, furnishing... .... 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 [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 -
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 -
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 -
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
