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...
Indian Detours
Tourism in Native North America
Edited by Pieter Hovens & Mette van der Hooft | 2016
With tourism becoming the largest single sector of the global economy it cannot but impact traditional societies in many ways, both detrimental and beneficial. Nowhere...
Trophies, Relics and Curios?
Missionary Heritage from Africa and the Pacific
Edited by Karen Jacobs, Chantal Knowles and Chris Wingfield | 2015
The British Missionary movement, which began in earnest in the early 19th century, was one of the most extraordinary movements of the last two centuries,...
Mercados de la Mixteca
Si no hay carro, no hay negocio
Laura van Broekhoven | 2015
Los mercados de la Mixteca son colectividades vibrantes y dinámicas que funcionan y forman parte del macrocontexto de la globalización, desde el consumismo hasta el...
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...
Indian Detours
Tourism in Native North America
Edited by Pieter Hovens & Mette van der Hooft | 2016
With tourism becoming the largest single sector of the global economy it cannot but impact traditional societies in many ways, both detrimental and beneficial. Nowhere...
Trophies, Relics and Curios?
Missionary Heritage from Africa and the Pacific
Edited by Karen Jacobs, Chantal Knowles and Chris Wingfield | 2015
The British Missionary movement, which began in earnest in the early 19th century, was one of the most extraordinary movements of the last two centuries,...
Mercados de la Mixteca
Si no hay carro, no hay negocio
Laura van Broekhoven | 2015
Los mercados de la Mixteca son colectividades vibrantes y dinámicas que funcionan y forman parte del macrocontexto de la globalización, desde el consumismo hasta el...
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