Australia & the Pacific
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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 -
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 -
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 -
The Archaeology of Community Emergence and Development on Mabuyag in the Western Torres Strait [Paperback]
Duncan Wright (Author)
Regular Price: £22.00
Special Price: £10.00
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 -
Rice Bowls and Dinner Plates [Paperback]
Virginia Esposito (Author)
Regular Price: £37.00
Special Price: £15.00
ISBN: 9781407313160
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2674
This volume details the results of the first intra-site examination of Chinese gold miners’ camps in Australia and the compositional analyses of Chinese-made ceramic vessels found there. Ceramic collections from five southeastern New South Wales g... .... Learn More -
Melanesia [Hardback]
Nicholas Thomas (Author); Elizabeth Bonshek (Author); Julie Adams (Author); Lissant Bolton (Editor); Ben Burt (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9780714125961
Published by : British Museum Press
The British Museums uniquely important Melanesian collection is pre-eminent among early collections, and the 20,000 items it comprises are core to understanding the cultures of the western Pacific. The extraordinary art styles represented, from gr... .... Learn More -
Body Ornaments of Malaita, Solomon Islands [Paperback]
Ben Burt (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780714125787
Published by : British Museum Press
The Kwara'ae and other peoples of Malaita island in Solomon Islands once dressed for special occasions in ornaments of glistening white shell and pearl shell, intricately carved turtle shell, strings and straps of shell money-beads and combs an... .... Learn More -
Tivaivai [Paperback]
Andrea Eimke (Author); Susanne Kuchler (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780714125800
Published by : British Museum Press
Quilts generically known as tivaivai have been produced by women in the Cook Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Society Islands and elsewhere in Eastern Polynesia since the late 19th century, where they were a substitute for bark-cloth but als... .... Learn More -
Remote Possibilities: Hoa Hakananai'a and HMS Topaze on Rapa Nui [Paperback]
Jo Anne Van Tilburg (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780861591589
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 158
This paper is a considerably revised version of the 1992 British Museum Occasional Paper No. 73 by the same author. The book describes how, when and by whom Hoa Hakanai'a was collected. It also reconstructs the underlying Rapanui aesthetic and ... .... Learn More
