Australia & the Pacific - World Archaeology

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)

£245.00

ISBN: 9789088906275
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 4.2
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 1): Oceanic Art and European Museums [Hardback]

Lucie Carreau (Editor); Alison Clark (Editor); Alana Jelinek (Editor); Erna Lilje (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor)

£135.00

ISBN: 9789088905902
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

Resonant Histories: Pacific artefacts and the voyages of the HMS Royalist 1890-1893 [Paperback]

Alison Clark (Editor); Eve Haddow (Contributor); Christopher Wright (Contributor)

£55.00

ISBN: 9789088906299
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Pacific Presences
Volume: 6

This book explores a complex relational assemblage, a collection of 1481 Pacific artefacts brought together by Captain Edward Henry Meggs Davis, during the three voyages of HMS Royalist between 1890-1893. The collection is indicative not just... .... Learn More

Fighting Fibres: Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections [Paperback]

Julie Adams (Editor); Polly Bence (Editor); Alison Clark (Editor)

£45.00

ISBN: 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 histo... .... Learn More

Style and Meaning: Essays on the anthropology of art [Paperback]

Anthony Forge (Author); Alison Clark (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor)

£45.00

ISBN: 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 dis... .... Learn More

Style and Meaning: Essays on the anthropology of art [Hardback]

Anthony Forge (Author); Alison Clark (Editor); Nicholas Thomas (Editor)

£135.00

ISBN: 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 dis... .... 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)

£135.00

ISBN: 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 histo... .... Learn More

Health and Disease in the Prehistoric Pacific Islands [Paperback]

Hallie Buckley (Author)

Regular Price: £50.00

Special Price: £15.00

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)

£40.00

ISBN: 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