Australia & the Pacific
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Fighting Fibres: Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections [Paperback]
Julie Adams (Editor); Polly Bence (Editor); Alison Clark (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 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 fibre armour from the islands of Kiribati. Taking as its focus the armour found in museum collections, it investigates the historical... .... Learn More -
Style and Meaning: Essays on the anthropology of art [Paperback]
Anthony Forge (Author); Alison Clark (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 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 marginal as the discipli... .... Learn More -
Style and Meaning: Essays on the anthropology of art [Hardback]
Anthony Forge (Author); Alison Clark (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
£135.00ISBN: 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 marginal as the discipli... .... Learn More -
Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art [Paperback]
Reimar Schefold (Author); Stephen G. Alpert (Author)
Regular Price: £29.99
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9780804848589
Published by : Tuttle Publishing
Lavish photography and groundbreaking new texts unlock the magic of the island cultures of Indonesia, Malaysia, and East Timor through examples of textiles, sculpture, and metalwork from this prestigious collection. Eyes of the Ancestors takes an ... .... Learn More -
Fighting Fibres: Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections [Hardback]
Julie Adams (Editor); Polly Bence (Editor); Alison Clark (Editor)
£135.00ISBN: 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 fibre armour from the islands of Kiribati. Taking as its focus the armour found in museum collections, it investigates the historical... .... Learn More -
Health and Disease in the Prehistoric Pacific Islands [Paperback]
Hallie Buckley (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £34.00
ISBN: 9781407314433
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2792
This study was conducted using a sample from the Solomon Islands in Melanesia and another sample from two burial mounds in Tonga, Polynesia. The primary aim of the study was to assess whether the presence of malaria in Melanesia adversely affected... .... Learn More -
Malaita [Paperback]
Ben Burt (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592012
Published by : British Museum Press
Volume: 201
Malaita traces the history and culture of a Pacific island from the 19th to 21st centuries through over 600 images drawn from the archives of the British Museum and public and private photographic collections around the world. This book explore... .... Learn More -
Unearthing the Polynesian Past: Adventures and Explorations of an Island Archaeologist [Hardback]
Patrick Vinton Kirch (Author)
Regular Price: £46.50
Special Price: £32.00
ISBN: 9780824853457
Published by : University of Hawai'i Press
Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. For close to fifty years he explored the Pacific, as his work took him to more than two dozen islands spread across the ocea... .... Learn More -
Emergence and Development of Ancestral Polynesian Society in Tonga (British Archaeological Reports International Series) [Paperback]
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £26.00
ISBN: 9781407314242
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2762
Early Polynesian social development, and its dispersal through migration, are hotly debated topics, though this development is thought to have been centred on Tonga. This thesis uses material from Tongan archaeological sites to attempt to form mor... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Community Emergence and Development on Mabuyag in the Western Torres Strait [Paperback]
Duncan Wright (Author)
Regular Price: £22.00
Special Price: £15.00
ISBN: 9781407314150
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2754
Torres Strait lies at a crucial point both geographically and conceptually between Australia and the Pacific. This book examines methodologies used in both regions for examining bounded archaeological communities. It applies a model of social arch... .... Learn More
