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  • The Chiefs' Country

    Leadership and Politics in Honiara, Soloman Islands

    de Ben Burt, Michael Kwa'ioloa ...
    Series series Pacific Studies series
    In this autobiographical account of life in the capital of the Solomon Islands, Michael Kwa'ioloa reflects on the challenges of raising a family in town and sustaining ties with a distant rural homeland on Malaita island. Continuing the long tradition of Kwara'ae community leaders participating in political activism, he discusses how the roles of these leaders were severely tested by the violent ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Tradition and Christianity

    The Colonial Transformation of a Solomon Islands Society

    de Ben Burt ...
    Series series Studies in Anthropology and History
    Burt studies the effects of the 19th century labour trade, colonial subjugation and the subsequent Christian conversion. He examines the anti-colonial Maasina Rule movement of the 1940s and finally illustrates the subsequent efforts of Kwara'ae leaders to regain their self-determination and to reaffirm the values of "tradition" under Christianity.The Kwara'ae example of colonialism and ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • World Art

    An Introduction to the Art in Artefacts

    de Ben Burt ...
    What do we mean by 'art'? As a category of objects, the concept belongs to a Western cultural tradition, originally European and now increasingly global, but how useful is it for understanding other traditions? To understand art as a universal human value, we need to look at how the concept was constructed in order to reconstruct it through an understanding of the wider world. Western art values ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The Museum of Mankind

    Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department

    de Ben Burt ...
    Series Libro 12 - Museums and Collections
    The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures. Issues of changing museum theory and practice are raised in a ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Whole Picture

    The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

    de Alice Procter ...
    "Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

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  • The Bible in Australia

    A Cultural History

    de Meredith Lake ...
    'STUNNING, REFRESHING AND ORIGINAL.' — JULIA BAIRD Koby Abberton emerges like a shark on to the sand at Maroubra Beach. Tattooed from shoulder to shoulder, his body bares letters like teeth: 'My brothers keeper'. In this surprising and revelatory history of the Bible in Australia, Meredith Lake gets under the skin of a text that's been read, wrestled with, preached and tattooed, and believed to be ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mana Maori and Christianity

    de Hugh Morrison, Lachy Peterson, Brett Knowles, Murray Rae ...
    This book examines encounters between the Christian church and Maori. Christian faith among Maori changed from Maori receiving the missionary endeavours of Pakeha settlers, to the development of indigenous expressions of Christian faith, partnerships between Maori and Pakeha in the mainline churches, and the emergence of Destiny Church. The book looks at the growth, development and adaptation of ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Melanesia

    Travels in Black Oceania

    de Hamish McDonald ...
    Stretching from Fiji in the east to New Guinea in the west, Melanesia is astonishingly diverse. Its islands are home to some 1,200 language groups, many of them still isolated from the outside world. This complex region tends to make the news only in times of crisis: military coups in Fiji, Kanak unrest in New Caledonia, rioting in the Solomon Islands. Melanesia offers readers a deeper insight ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Art and its global histories

    A reader

    Edición de Diana Newall ...
    Series Libro 5 - Art and its Global Histories
    The reader Art and its global histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, to art criticism.The introduction sets out the state of art history today as it undergoes the profound shift of a 'global turn'. Particular focus is given to British India, which represents a shift from ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • An Indigenous Ocean

    Pacific Essays

    de Damon Salesa ...
    The Pacific’s ‘Indigenous times’ are not just smaller sections of larger histories, but dimensions of their own.Histories of our Pacific world are richly rendered in these essays by Damon Salesa. From the first Indigenous civilisations that flourished in Oceania to the colonial encounters of the nineteenth century, and on to the complex contemporary relationships between New Zealand and the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Becoming Places

    Urbanism / Architecture / Identity / Power

    de Kim Dovey ...
    About the practices and politics of place and identity formation – the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are – this book exposes the relations of place to power. It links everyday aspects of place experience to the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu in a very readable manner. This is a book that takes the social critique of built form another step through ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Ancestral Lines

    The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest

    de John Barker ...
    More than a century of interaction with colonial and global agencies and forces have brought many changes to the lives of the Maisin people who live on the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Yet ancestral traditions continue to strongly inform their way of life. Their beautifully designed tapa cloth, made from the pounded inner bark of the paper mulberry tree, most vividly connects the past ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD