Australia & the Pacific
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Robert 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 -
Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth: Cloth, Collections, Communities [Hardback]
Frances Lennard (Editor); Andy Mills (Editor)
£165.00ISBN: 9789088909726
Published by : Sidestone Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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]
Frances Lennard (Editor); Andy Mills (Editor)
£55.00ISBN: 9789088909719
Published by : Sidestone Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 -
Wuka nya-nganunga li-Yanyuwa li-Anthawirriyarra. Language for Us, The Yanyuwa Saltwater People: A Yanyuwa Encyclopaedia [Paperback]
John Bradley (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781925588682
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Not yet published - available for pre-order
This Encyclopaedia is a rich, authoritative repository of the cultural and linguistic knowledge of the Yanyuwa, the Saltwater people of the coastal and island country near Borroloola in the Northern Territory of Australia. Volume 1 will interest... .... Learn More -
Ci, Gender and Social Change among the Asmat of Papua, Indonesia [Hardback]
Onesius O. Daeli (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9789088909306
Published by : Sidestone Press
This volume is based on an anthropological fieldwork among the Asmat people for many years, and investigates the cultural significances of Asmat’s dugout canoes by using ‘symbolic and interpretive anthropology’ as theoretical framework. .... Learn More -
Ci, Gender and Social Change among the Asmat of Papua, Indonesia [Paperback]
Onesius O. Daeli (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9789088909290
Published by : Sidestone Press
This volume is based on an anthropological fieldwork among the Asmat people for many years, and investigates the cultural significances of Asmat’s dugout canoes by using ‘symbolic and interpretive anthropology’ as theoretical framework. .... Learn More -
The Dystopia in the Desert: The silent culture of Australia’s remotest Aboriginal communities [Paperback]
Tadhgh Purtill (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 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 culture... .... Learn More -
Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague [Paperback]
Julie Adams (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9789088906350
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 8
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 -
This is not a Grass Skirt: On fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji [Paperback]
Karen Jacobs (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9789088908125
Published by : Sidestone Press
The Pacific ‘grass skirt’ has provoked debates about the demeaning and sexualised depiction of Pacific bodies. While these stereotypical portrayals associated with ‘nakedness’ are challenged in this book, the complex uses and meanings of the garme... .... Learn More
