Pacific Presences - Volume 1
Oceanic Art and European Museums
Edited by Lucie Carreau, Alison Clark, Alana Jelinek, Erna Lilje & Nicholas Thomas | 2018
Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian...
Pacific Presences - Volume 2
Oceanic Art and European Museums
Edited by Lucie Carreau, Alison Clark, Alana Jelinek, Erna Lilje & Nicholas Thomas | 2018
Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian...
Collecting in the South Sea
The Voyage of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux 1791-1794
Edited by Bronwen Douglas, Fanny Wonu Veys, and Billie Lythberg | 2018
This book is a study of ‘collecting’ undertaken by Joseph Antoine Bruni d’Entrecasteaux and his shipmates in Tasmania, the western Pacific Islands, and Indonesia. In...
Fighting Fibres
Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections
Edited by Julie Adams, Polly Bence and Alison Clark | 2018
This book brings together artists, curators, researchers and conservators to consider the significance of coconut fibre armour from the islands of Kiribati. Taking as its...
Style and Meaning
Essays on the anthropology of art
Anthony Forge (edited by Alison Clark and Nicholas Thomas) | 2017
Anthropology’s engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, ‘decorative art’, and art styles were of major significance for founding figures...
Treasures in Trusted Hands
Negotiating the Future of Colonial Cultural Objects
Jos van Beurden | 2017
This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. It presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial...
Lamak
Ritual objects in Bali
Francine Brinkgreve | 2016
This is the first study to examine in detail ritual objects known as ‘Lamak’, a fascinating and unique form of ephemeral material culture which is...
Pacific Presences - Volume 1
Oceanic Art and European Museums
Edited by Lucie Carreau, Alison Clark, Alana Jelinek, Erna Lilje & Nicholas Thomas | 2018
Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian...
Pacific Presences - Volume 2
Oceanic Art and European Museums
Edited by Lucie Carreau, Alison Clark, Alana Jelinek, Erna Lilje & Nicholas Thomas | 2018
Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian...
Collecting in the South Sea
The Voyage of Bruni d’Entrecasteaux 1791-1794
Edited by Bronwen Douglas, Fanny Wonu Veys, and Billie Lythberg | 2018
This book is a study of ‘collecting’ undertaken by Joseph Antoine Bruni d’Entrecasteaux and his shipmates in Tasmania, the western Pacific Islands, and Indonesia. In...
Fighting Fibres
Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections
Edited by Julie Adams, Polly Bence and Alison Clark | 2018
This book brings together artists, curators, researchers and conservators to consider the significance of coconut fibre armour from the islands of Kiribati. Taking as its...
Style and Meaning
Essays on the anthropology of art
Anthony Forge (edited by Alison Clark and Nicholas Thomas) | 2017
Anthropology’s engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, ‘decorative art’, and art styles were of major significance for founding figures...
Treasures in Trusted Hands
Negotiating the Future of Colonial Cultural Objects
Jos van Beurden | 2017
This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. It presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial...
Lamak
Ritual objects in Bali
Francine Brinkgreve | 2016
This is the first study to examine in detail ritual objects known as ‘Lamak’, a fascinating and unique form of ephemeral material culture which is...
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