Australia & the Pacific
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Acclimatising to Higher Ground: The Realities of Life of a Pacific Atoll People [Paperback]
Keith Dixon (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9789464260298
Published by : Sidestone Press
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern!... .... Learn More -
Acclimatising to higher ground: The realities of life of a Pacific Atoll People [Hardback]
Keith Dixon (Author)
Regular Price: £120.00
Special Price: £115.00
ISBN: 9789464260304
Published by : Sidestone Press
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern!... .... Learn More -
Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museums [Hardback]
Gaye Sculthorpe (Editor); Maria Nugent (Editor); Howard Morphy (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9780714124902
Published by : British Museum Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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. Gifted, sold, e... .... Learn More -
Objects as Insights: R.H. Codrington's Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia [Paperback]
Nick Stanley (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780861592357
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 235
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Robert Codrington (1830-1922) trained to be a priest at Oxford University. He volunteered to work in Nelson, New Zealand, from 1860-4 and was appointed as headmaster of the Melanesian Mission training school on Norfolk Island in 1867. He spent the... .... Learn More -
Safer Gardens: Plant Flammability & Planning For Fire [Paperback]
Lesley Corbett (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781922454607
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Destructive bushfires are increasing in frequency and intensity around the world. For people living in fire prone areas there are no reliable guides about which plants have low flammability and which are frighteningly flammable. Safer Gardens is t... .... Learn More -
Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague [Hardback]
Julie Adams (Author)
£160.00ISBN: 9789088906367
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 8
Museum Magic Memory reveals and responds to the challenges that curators today must embrace when exhibiting the ethnographic collections of the past with the aim of establishing new relations for the future. .... Learn More -
Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague [Paperback]
Julie Adams (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9789088906350
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 8
Museum Magic Memory reveals and responds to the challenges that curators today must embrace when exhibiting the ethnographic collections of the past with the aim of establishing new relations for the future. .... Learn More -
Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth: Cloth, Collections, Communities [Paperback]
Frances Lennard (Editor); Andy Mills (Editor)
£55.00ISBN: 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 -
Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth: Cloth, Collections, Communities [Hardback]
Frances Lennard (Editor); Andy Mills (Editor)
£165.00ISBN: 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 -
Australia’s Ancient Aboriginal Past: A Global Perspective [Paperback]
Murray Johnson (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 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
