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Mark Adams' renowned images document a great Polynesian art tradition. Samoan tattooing has flourished among Samoan migrants in New Zealand, stimulated major New Zealand artists, and inspired tattoo artists and communities worldwide.
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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 as well as loss, survival as well as suffering, and invention as well as exploita ...
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This anthology places the works of such well-known figures as Captain James Cook and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside the writings of lesser-known explorers, missionaries, beachcombers, and literary travellers who roamed the South Seas from the late 17th through the late 19th cen ...
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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 book tells the story of the making of empire through stories of the lives of men and women - some visionary, some v ...
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The author takes up issues central to modern anthropology. In so doing he raises doubts about any simple us / them dichotomy between Westerners and Pacific Islanders, challenging the preoccupation of anthropology with cultural differences by stressing the shared history of colo ...
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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 collections, all over the world. This book, in full colour, brings together hiapo f ...
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Published to coincide with the first major survey exhibition of John Pule's work, curated by the City Gallery Wellington, Hauaga provides an indispensable guide to the work of one of the most powerful and original artists of the new Oceania.
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An account of early Marquesan social relations and culture, making use of ethnohistoric documentation. It covers the nature of gender relations in Polynesian societies, small-scale hierarchical structures, cultural transformation and longer-term change.
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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 Micronesia) and the subsequent amicable relations between the crew and the islanders.
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The author takes up issues central to modern anthropology. In so doing he raises doubts about any simple us / them dichotomy between Westerners and Pacific Islanders, challenging the preoccupation of anthropology with a cultural difference by stressing the shared history of col ...
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