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Voyagers

The Settlement of the Pacific

by Nicholas Thomas ...

An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street JournalThe islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit ... Read more

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An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street JournalThe islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit
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The Voyages of Captain James Cook

The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Voyages

by James Cook, John Hawkesworth, Georg Forster, James King ...

The first-ever illustrated account of the explorer and cartographer's epic eighteenth-century Pacific voyages, complete with excerpts from his journals.This is history's greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders were to chart the path of Venus across the sun. That task completed, his ship, the ... Read more

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The first-ever illustrated account of the explorer and cartographer's epic eighteenth-century Pacific voyages, complete with excerpts from his journals.This is history's greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders were to chart the path of Venus across the sun. That task completed, his ship, the
... Read more
Gauguin and Polynesia

by Nicholas Thomas ...

Paul Gauguin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest modern artists. He is renowned for resplendent, mythic imagery from Oceania, for a life of restless travel and for his supposed immersion in Polynesian life. But he has long been regarded ambivalently, and in recent years both Gauguin's sexual behaviour, and his paintings, have been considered exploitative.Gauguin and Polynesia offers a ... Read more

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Paul Gauguin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest modern artists. He is renowned for resplendent, mythic imagery from Oceania, for a life of restless travel and for his supposed immersion in Polynesian life. But he has long been regarded ambivalently, and in recent years both Gauguin's sexual behaviour, and his paintings, have been considered exploitative.Gauguin and Polynesia offers a
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An Eye for the Tropics

Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque

by Krista A. Thompson, Nicholas Thomas ...

Series series Objects/Histories
Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market ... Read more

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Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market
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Eye Contact

Photographing Indigenous Australians

by Jane Lydon, Nicholas Thomas ...

Series series Objects/Histories
An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its opening in the 1860s the colonial government commissioned many photographs of its Aboriginal residents. The photographs taken at Coranderrk Station ... Read more

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An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its opening in the 1860s the colonial government commissioned many photographs of its Aboriginal residents. The photographs taken at Coranderrk Station
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The Return of Curiosity

What Museums are Good For in the Twenty-first Century

by Nicholas Thomas ...

Over the last twenty years museums have proliferated, attracting new audiences and assuming new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity offers a fresh perspective on museums and what they may now be good for. Nicholas Thomas argues that what is special about museums are their collections, which are not just rich resources for reflection, but creative technologies that enable people to ... Read more

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Over the last twenty years museums have proliferated, attracting new audiences and assuming new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity offers a fresh perspective on museums and what they may now be good for. Nicholas Thomas argues that what is special about museums are their collections, which are not just rich resources for reflection, but creative technologies that enable people to
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Painting Culture

The Making of an Aboriginal High Art

by Fred R. Myers, Nicholas Thomas ...

Series series Objects/Histories
Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors. Since the early 1970s, Fred R. Myers has studied—often as a participant-observer—the Pintupi, one of several Aboriginal groups who paint the famous acrylic works. ... Read more

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Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors. Since the early 1970s, Fred R. Myers has studied—often as a participant-observer—the Pintupi, one of several Aboriginal groups who paint the famous acrylic works.
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An Ocean of Wonder

The Fantastic in the Pacific

by Māhealani Ahia, Michael Lujan Bevacqua, Sarahina Sabrina Birk, Elizabeth Ua Ceallaigh Bowman, Marie Alohalani Brown, Alexander Casey, Ra’i Chaze, Laura De La Vega, Sosthène Desanges, Joy Lehuanani Enomoto, Solomon Enos, Pono Fernandez, Nicole Ku‘uleinapuananioliko‘awapuhimelemeleolani Furtado, Sofia Kaleomālie Furtado, Patricia Grace, Andrea Nicole Grajek, Professor Vilsoni Hereniko, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Kahala Johnson, Robyn Kahukiwa, Emelihter Kihleng, Aaron Ki‘ilau, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada, Sloane Leong, Caryn Lesuma, Nai‘a-Ulumaimalu Lewis, Tina Makereti, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Mahinatea Shea McCallum, Brandy Nālani McDougall, Kapili‘ula Naehu-Ramos, Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng, Lehua Parker, Craig Santos Perez, John Pule, Peter Rawlingson, Marama Salsano, Lyz Soto, Terisa Siagatonu, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Tiare Ribeaux, Robert Sullivan, Nicholas Thomas, Kristina R. Togafau, Briana Koani U‘u, Albert Wendt, Steven Winduo, Brittany Winland, Qianqian Ye ...

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the ... Read more

$35.99 USD

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the
... Read more
Beyond Aesthetics

Art and the Technologies of Enchantment

Edited by Christopher Pinney, Nicholas Thomas ...

The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment. Alfred Gell recently confronted this problem in his posthumous book Art and Agency. The central thesis of his study was that art objects could be seen, ... Read more

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The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment. Alfred Gell recently confronted this problem in his posthumous book Art and Agency. The central thesis of his study was that art objects could be seen,
... Read more
The Camera as Historian

Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918

by Elizabeth Edwards ...

Series series Objects/histories
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the English past so that it might be preserved for future generations. In The Camera as Historian, the groundbreaking historical and visual anthropologist Elizabeth Edwards works with an archive of nearly 55 ... Read more

$22.29 USD

In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the English past so that it might be preserved for future generations. In The Camera as Historian, the groundbreaking historical and visual anthropologist Elizabeth Edwards works with an archive of nearly 55
... Read more
Re-Orienting Australia-China Relations

1972 to the Present

Edited by Nicholas Thomas ...

Drawing on contributors from academic and policy communities, this volume explores the major aspects of Australia-China relations. The frequently overlooked connection between Australia and Taiwan is also considered to allow readers to reach a full appreciation of the restraints engendered by the relationship with China as well as its many benefits. Moving beyond the traditional state-centric ... Read more

$61.99 USD

Drawing on contributors from academic and policy communities, this volume explores the major aspects of Australia-China relations. The frequently overlooked connection between Australia and Taiwan is also considered to allow readers to reach a full appreciation of the restraints engendered by the relationship with China as well as its many benefits. Moving beyond the traditional state-centric
... Read more
Tattoo

Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and Europe

Edited by Nicholas Thomas, Anna Cole, Bronwen Douglas ...

The popularity of tattoos today is a revival of a practice begun in the late eighteenth century, when Westerners first made contact with the native peoples of the Pacific. The term ‘tattoo’ entered Europe with the publication of Captain Cook's voyages in the 1770s, and Pacific tattoos became fashionable in the West as sailors, whalers and explorers brought home tattoos from Tahiti, the Marquesas, ... Read more

$28.69 USD

The popularity of tattoos today is a revival of a practice begun in the late eighteenth century, when Westerners first made contact with the native peoples of the Pacific. The term ‘tattoo’ entered Europe with the publication of Captain Cook's voyages in the 1770s, and Pacific tattoos became fashionable in the West as sailors, whalers and explorers brought home tattoos from Tahiti, the Marquesas,
... Read more

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