Oceania
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Pacific Presences. Volume 2: Oceanic Art and European Museums [Paperback]
Lucie Carreau(Editor); Alison Clark(Editor); Alana Jelinek(Editor); Erna Lilje(Editor); Nicholas Thomas(Editor)
$130.00ISBN: 9789088906268
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 4B
The vast and extraordinary collections from the Pacific, collected from the late eighteenth century onwards, that are dispersed across ethnographic and other museums in Europe amount to hundreds of thousands of artefacts, ranging from seemingly qu... .... Learn More -
Pacific Presences. Volume 2: Oceanic Art and European Museums [Hardback]
Lucie Carreau(Editor); Alison Clark(Editor); Alana Jelinek(Editor); Erna Lilje(Editor); Nicholas Thomas(Editor)
$345.00ISBN: 9789088906275
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 4B
The vast and extraordinary collections from the Pacific, collected from the late eighteenth century onwards, that are dispersed across ethnographic and other museums in Europe amount to hundreds of thousands of artefacts, ranging f... .... Learn More -
Ludwig Leichhardt's Ghosts: The Strange Career of a Traveling Myth [Hardback]
Andrew Wright Hurley(Author)
$95.00ISBN: 9781640140134
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 196
After the renowned Prussian scientist and explorer Ludwig Leichhardt left the Australian frontier in 1848 on an expedition to cross the continent, he disappeared without a trace. Andrew Hurley's book complicates that view by undertaking an afterli... .... Learn More -
Fighting Fibres: Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections [Paperback]
Julie Adams(Editor); Polly Bence(Editor); Alison Clark(Editor)
$65.00ISBN: 9789088905650
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 2
This book brings together artists, curators, researchers and conservators to consider the significance of coconut fiber armor from the islands of Kiribati. Taking as its focus the armor found in museum collections, it investigates the historical c... .... Learn More -
Fighting Fibres: Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections [Hardback]
Julie Adams(Editor); Polly Bence(Editor); Alison Clark(Editor)
$195.00ISBN: 9789088905667
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 2
This book brings together artists, curators, researchers and conservators to consider the significance of coconut fiber armor from the islands of Kiribati. Taking as its focus the armor found in museum collections, it investigates... .... Learn More -
Style and Meaning: Essays on the anthropology of art [Hardback]
Anthony Forge(Author); Alison Clark(Editor); Nicholas Thomas(Editor)
$180.00ISBN: 9789088904479
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 1
Anthropology's engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, 'decorative art', and art styles were of major significance for founding figures such as Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas, art became margina... .... Learn More -
Style and Meaning: Essays on the anthropology of art [Paperback]
Anthony Forge(Author); Alison Clark(Editor); Nicholas Thomas(Editor)
$60.00ISBN: 9789088904462
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 1
Anthropology's engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, 'decorative art', and art styles were of major significance for founding figures such as Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas, art became margina... .... Learn More -
'Some Friends Came to See Us': Lord Moyne's 1936 Expedition to the Asmat [Paperback]
Nick Stanley(Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9780861592067
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 206
Walter Edward Guinness (1880–1944), the first Lord Moyne, was an Anglo-Irish politician, businessman and explorer. Travelling across the globe in his private yacht in search for ethnographic material, Lord Moyne visited Sout... .... Learn More -
A'a: a deity from Polynesia [Paperback]
Julie Adams(Author); Steven Hooper(Author); Maia Nuku(Author)
$10.00ISBN: 9780714151151
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: Objects in Focus
This world-renowned sculpture is a unique figure in Polynesian art. An image of a deified ancestor, A’a was created sometime before 1821 on the island of Rurutu. Thirty dynamic figures stud his body, and the excellence of hi... .... Learn More -
Trophies, Relics and Curios?: Missionary Heritage from Africa and the Pacific [Paperback]
Dr. Karen Jacobs(Editor); Chantal Knowles(Editor); Chris Wingfield(Editor)
$45.00ISBN: 9789088902710
Published by : Sidestone Press
The British Missionary movement, which began in earnest in the early 19th century, was one of the most extraordinary movements of the last two centuries, radically transforming the lives of people in large parts of the globe, incl... .... Learn More
