Comprises a critical edition of an 18th-century text describing the wreck of the East India Company packet, the Antelope, in the Pelew Islands (now Pelau or Belau in the western Carolines, in Micrones...
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Tapa, or barkcloth, is called 'hiapo' in the language of Niue island in central Polynesia. Most known pieces of hiapo were produced between 1850 and 1900. They are now dispersed, largely in museum col...
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Offering an overview of the anthropology of art, this book presents critiques of the limits of aesthetic interpretation, the workings of objects in practice, the relations between meaning and efficacy...
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Offering an overview of the anthropology of art, this book presents critiques of the limits of aesthetic interpretation, the workings of objects in practice, the relations between meaning and efficacy...
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Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. This title reveals that there was gain a...
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Double Vision yields a fresh understanding of history, colonialism and culture in the Pacific. 50 b/w illus....
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