Australia & the Pacific
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Australia’s Ancient Aboriginal Past: A Global Perspective [Paperback]
Murray Johnson (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781925003710
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
This is not a Grass Skirt: On fibre skirts (liku) and female tattooing (veiqia) in nineteenth century Fiji [Hardback]
Karen Jacobs (Author)
£135.00ISBN: 9789088908132
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 -
Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague [Hardback]
Julie Adams (Author)
£120.00ISBN: 9789088906367
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 8
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Tiki: Marquesan Art and the Krusenstern expedition [Paperback]
Elena Govor (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 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, Marquesan art is nevert... .... Learn More -
Tiki: Marquesan Art and the Krusenstern expedition [Hardback]
Elena Govor (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
£180.00ISBN: 9789088906916
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, Marquesan art is nevert... .... Learn More -
Pacific Presences (volume 1): Oceanic Art and European Museums [Paperback]
Lucie Carreau (Editor); Alison Clark (Editor); Alana Jelinek (Editor); Erna Lilje (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9789088905896
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 4.1
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
