Plumes From Paradise

Author : Pamela Swadling
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781743325469

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Plumes from Paradise by Pamela Swadling Pdf

The natural resources of New Guinea and nearby islands have attracted outsiders for at least 5000 years: spices, aromatic woods and barks, resins, plumes, sea slugs, shells and pearls all brought traders from distant markets. Among the most sought-after was the bird of paradise. Their magnificent plumes bedecked the hats of fashion-conscious women in Europe and America, provided regalia for the Kings of Nepal, and decorated the headdresses of Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire. Plumes from Paradise tells the story of this interaction, and of the economic, political, social and cultural consequence for the island's inhabitants. It traces 400 years of economic and political history, culminating in the 'plume boom' of the early part of the 20th century, when an unprecedented number of outsiders flocked to the island's coasts and hinterlands. The story teems with the variety of people involved: New Guineans, Indonesians, Chinese, Europeans, hunters, traders, natural historians and their collectors, officials, missionaries, planters, miners, adventurers of every kind. In the wings were the conservationists, whose efforts brought the slaughter of the plume boom to an end and ushered in an era of comparative isolation for the island that lasted until World War II.

Author : Clive Moore
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824844134

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New Guinea by Clive Moore Pdf

New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelagos form Indonesia’s Papua Province (or Irian Jaya) and the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, both former European colonies. Most books on New Guinea have been guided by these and other divisions, separating east from west, prehistoric from historic, precontact from postcontact, colonial from postcolonial. This is the first work to consider New Guinea and its 40,000-year history in its entirety. The volume opens with a look at the Melanesian region and argues that interlocking exchange systems and associated human interchanges are the "invisible government" through which New Guinea societies operate. Succeeding chapters review the history of encounters between outsiders and New Guinea's populations. They consider the history of Malay involvement with New Guinea over the past two thousand years, demonstrating the extent to which west New Guinea in particular was incorporated into Malay trading and raiding networks prior to Western contact. The impact of colonial rule, economic and social change, World War II, decolonization, and independence are discussed in the final chapter.

Author : Tim Laman,Edwin Scholes
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Birds of paradise (Birds)
ISBN : 9781426209581

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Birds of Paradise by Tim Laman,Edwin Scholes Pdf

In this dazzling photo essay, Laman and Scholes present gorgeous full-color photographs of all 39 species of the Birds of Paradise that highlight their unique and extraordinary plumage and mating behavior.

Author : David Pickell
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781462914869

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Between the Tides by David Pickell Pdf

Featuring hundreds of original, color photographs, this fascinating study of New Guinea chronicles the rituals and daily life of this remote and culturally rich region. Between the Tides offers a compelling mix of New Guinean storytelling, history, natural history, politics, and culture. David Pickell brings warmth and intelligence to his subject, and Kal Muller's photographs are surprising and evocative. Together, author and photographer show how an isolated, nomadic past meets a worldly, urban future, history confronts superstition, and a false and imposed sense of shame yields to a new, and still fragile, pride. Their journey took them from the dusty New Guinea frontier town of Timika to tiny Lakahia island, along two hundred miles of twisting mangrove creeks and the relentlessly uncooperative Arafura sea. What they found was a culture facing the delicate, sometimes humorous, occasionally painful, and always interesting process of change.

Author : Christopher Healey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520337831

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Maring Hunters and Traders by Christopher Healey Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Author : Felix Driver ,Mark Nesbitt,Caroline Cornish
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781787355088

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Mobile Museums by Felix Driver ,Mark Nesbitt,Caroline Cornish Pdf

Mobile Museums presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present. It brings together an impressive array of international scholars and curators from a wide variety of disciplines – including the history of science, museum anthropology and postcolonial history - to consider the mobility of collections. The book combines historical perspectives on the circulation of museum objects in the past with contemporary accounts of their re-mobilisation, notably in the context of Indigenous community engagement. Contributors seek to explore processes of circulation historically in order to re-examine, inform and unsettle common assumptions about the way museum collections have evolved over time and through space. By foregrounding questions of circulation, the chapters in Mobile Museums collectively represent a fundamental shift in the understanding of the history and future uses of museum collections. The book addresses a variety of different types of collection, including the botanical, the ethnographic, the economic and the archaeological. Its perspective is truly global, with case studies drawn from South America, West Africa, Oceania, Australia, the United States, Europe and the UK. Mobile Museums helps us to understand why the mobility of museum collections was a fundamental aspect of their history and why it continues to matter today. Praise for Mobile Museums 'This book advances a paradigm shift in studies of museums and collections. A distinguished group of contributors reveal that collections are not dead assemblages. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries were marked by vigorous international traffic in ethnography and natural history specimens that tell us much about colonialism, travel and the history of knowledge – and have implications for the remobilisation of museums in the future.’ – Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge 'The first major work to examine the implications and consequences of the migration of materials from one scientific or cultural milieu to another, it highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of collections and offers insights into their potential for future re-mobilisation.' – Arthur MacGregor

Author : Phil Gregory
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691202143

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Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds by Phil Gregory Pdf

First published in the United Kingdom by Helm/Bloomsbury in 2019.

Author : Bruce M. Beehler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691180304

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New Guinea by Bruce M. Beehler Pdf

Combining a wealth of information, a descriptive and story-filled narrative, and more than 200 stunning color photographs, the book unlocks New Guinea's remarkable secrets like never before

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Children's periodicals
ISBN : UCAL:C2724006

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The Boy's Own Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur G. Sharp
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781476651705

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The Hat That Killed a Billion Birds by Arthur G. Sharp Pdf

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was common practice for milliners to decorate women's hats with birds' feathers and plumes--and sometimes with the birds themselves. As many as 300 million birds per year were killed for this fashionable enterprise, causing the extinction of some entire species and the endangerment of others. Lawmakers and bird aficionados were slow to react to the effects of this practice, which went on almost unabated for a quarter of a century. Then, noted naturalists like George Bird Grinnell, William T. Hornaday, and President Theodore Roosevelt, who recognized the economic benefits birds provided, banded together to pass meaningful legislation to protect them and to curb the production of murderous millinery. This book explores the troubled history of millinery and its complicated relationship to birds and conservation. It explores why it took so long for the slaughter to end and how the efforts of individuals and groups brought about change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107163131

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The Birds of Paradise by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sir David Attenborough,Errol Fuller
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780007487622

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Drawn From Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise by Sir David Attenborough,Errol Fuller Pdf

Drawn from Paradise is David Attenborough’s journey through the cultural history of the birds of paradise, one of the most exquisite and extravagant, colourful and intriguing families of birds.

Author : National cyclopaedia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600047012

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The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed by National cyclopaedia Pdf

Author : Mary Roelofs Stott
Publisher : International University Press (FL)
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0896971414

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Paradise Plume by Mary Roelofs Stott Pdf

Author : Norman Arlott,Ber van Perlo
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691193922

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The Complete Birds of the World by Norman Arlott,Ber van Perlo Pdf

"This is a book like no other--the only truly comprehensive, one-volume illustrated guide to all of the world's birds, covering the complete International Ornithological Congress World Bird List. Featuring more than 300 stunning large-format, full-color plates, this accessible and authoritative encyclopedic reference presents incredibly detailed, accurate, and beautiful paintings of more than 10,700 species by some of the world's best bird artists, led by the legendary Norman Arlott and Ber van Perlo. In addition, The Complete Birds of the World provides detailed but concise identification information about each species on facing pages--including facts about voice, habitat, and geographic distribution. The result is a visual and verbal feast that captures the astonishing variety of bird life around the planet--and that will be cherished by any birder." -- Amazon.