| Description |
1 online resource (178 pages) |
| Contents |
Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 178 |
| Summary |
In investigating both customary and modern Pacific art, these collected essays present a wide-ranging view across time and space, taking the reader from antiquities to contemporary art and travelling across the region from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Zealand to Samoa. Studies of artefacts and traditions, such as self-portraiture, wood carvings, shields, tapa, dance and masks, use a variety of approaches, some deriving from museum studies while others are based on field investigation. Together they reveal the oppositional tensions between tradition and innovation, and the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Art -- Oceania -- Congresses
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Art, Pacific Island -- Congresses
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Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Oceania -- Congresses
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Material culture -- Oceania -- Congresses
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Art
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Art -- Collectors and collecting
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Art, Pacific Island
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Material culture
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Oceania
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Coiffier, Christian
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Allen, Anne E
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Waite, Deborah B
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| ISBN |
9781907774768 |
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1907774769 |
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