Shadows Of New Guinea

Author : Philippe Peltier,Floriane Morin
Publisher : Somogy
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015073906847

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Shadows of New Guinea by Philippe Peltier,Floriane Morin Pdf

"A publication revealing the extraordinary talents of the scultors of New Guinea, in turn, marked with staggering ferocity and surprising delicacy. The rituals of the native inhabitants of this major island sometimes involved headhunting, perceived as a need to appropriate the enemy's vital forces in order to increase one's own. It is a complex mythology that has given rise to numerous sacred or magic sculptures, the oldest of which were carved with stone tools or sharp shell edges and finished with the pointed teeth of small animals. The Barbier-Mueller Museum presents almost two hundred pieces from New Guinea belonging to its collections, documented by surperb photographs, some of which are previously unpublished." --Dust Jacket.

Author : G. M. Byrnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Journalism
ISBN : UVA:X001803636

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Green Shadows by G. M. Byrnes Pdf

Author : Tony Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315406480

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Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea by Tony Lewis Pdf

The garamut is a log idiophone that is found in many of the coastal and island areas of Papua New Guinea. The instrument’s primary use is as a speech surrogate and in some regions the garamut is also used in large ensembles to play complex music for dancing. In Baluan Island, within the Manus Province, this style of garamut playing is comparatively highly developed. This book follows the author’s processes and methods in learning to play the music of the garamut, to the level at which he became accepted as a garamut player by the people of Baluan. Lewis argues that analysis is essential in learning to play the rapid tempi and complex rhythms of Baluan garamut music, in a cultural context where there is no formal teaching process for the music. The transcription and analysis of the Baluan garamut repertoire is the centrepiece of this study, reflecting the cognitive structures of the learning process, and revealing the inner workings of the music’s complexity as well as a striking beauty of form and structure. The book concludes with reflections on the process of a ‘cultural outsider’ becoming a garamut player in Baluan and on the role of musical analysis in that process, on the ethnomusicologist’s role in transmission of the music, and on the nature of continuity and change in a musical society such as Baluan.

Author : Michael Hirschbichler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781040035597

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Spirit Structures of Papua New Guinea by Michael Hirschbichler Pdf

This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural, and spatial research. It offers the first comprehensive study of the spirit houses of New Guinea that exists to date. The book’s aim is twofold: First, it aims to investigate the spirit structures and their associated cultural cosmos in detail. For this purpose, a representative selection of traditional buildings and artworks from different regions of Papua New Guinea is documented and analyzed, and theories for their understanding are formulated. In this course, the author develops a spatial theory of anthropological concepts – such as myths, signs, persons, and rituals. Secondly, this analysis is then situated in the broader context of the Anthropocene/Kaiaimunucene. Transforming the historical spirit structures into models for future-oriented cultural imagination, the consequences for contemporary productions of space and ways of worldmaking in light of existential challenges are traced. The book thus offers more-than-human and more-than-secular concepts for building, art, and worldmaking that are of critical importance in the ongoing Anthropocene/Kaiaimunucene. It will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, anthropology, cultural studies, environmental humanities, and adjacent disciplines. Part I of the book was translated from German by Melanie Janet Sindelar.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Eric Kjellgren
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300204292

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How to Read Oceanic Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Eric Kjellgren Pdf

An engaging explanation of Oceanic art and an important gateway to wider appreciation of Oceanic heritage and visual culture

Author : John Mugambwa,Harrison Amankwah,C.E.P. (Val) Haynes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134095032

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Commercial and Business Organizations Law in Papua New Guinea by John Mugambwa,Harrison Amankwah,C.E.P. (Val) Haynes Pdf

A timely and apposite treatise on Papua New Guinea’s economic environment, this book explores business organizations law and various aspects of commercial law in Papua New Guinea in a readable and informative style. Business and commerce is the twin engine that propels the economy of a modern nation. They ensure steady economic growth and development. In an age of globalization, they assume even greater importance than at any other time in human history. A nation risks being marginalized or left behind in the race for a share of the world economic market unless it ensures the stability of its business and commercial sector. Trade regulation, good governance and democratic institutions go hand in hand in guaranteeing political and social equilibrium. As such the laws designed to facilitate trade and commerce are a vital component of the political and social equation. This is a valuable book for law students, legal practitioners, accountants and business executives, not only within Papua New Guinea, but also in Australia and throughout the South Pacific.

Author : Eric Hirsch,Will Rollason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315529677

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The Melanesian World by Eric Hirsch,Will Rollason Pdf

This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media and climate change. The ‘Melanesian world’ assembled here raises questions that cut to the heart of debates in the human sciences today, with profound implications for the ways in which scholars across disciplines can describe and understand human difference. This impressive collection of essays represents a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.

Author : Jan McLeod
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925675917

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Shadows on the Track by Jan McLeod Pdf

At Templeton’s Crossing in October 1942, Private Nick Kennedy paused to write in his diary: ‘One wonders why all this strife should be … these men in the prime of their life cut down like flowers’. As a young nursing orderly serving with the 2/4th Australian Field Ambulance, Kennedy was unenviably well-placed to reflect on the futility of war. The Australian Army was woefully unprepared to fight a medical war in Papua and the soldiers paid the price. Almost 30,000 soldiers suffered from illness and tropical diseases, and an estimated 6000 were killed or wounded during the six-month campaign. These statistics have traditionally been represented as unavoidable consequences of fighting a war in a place such as Papua. This book disputes that narrative. Death and disease were inevitable outcomes, but the scale of the suffering was not. The medical challenges presented in Papua were extreme – they were not insurmountable. Shadows on the Track considers a wide range of issues that impacted on the health of the Australian soldiers before, during and after the Papuan campaign was fought and won. The strengths, successes, shortcomings and failures of the medical campaign are identified, analysed and evaluated. The focus on the front-line medical personnel – the men of the field ambulance units – brings a new perspective to the battles of the Kokoda Track, Milne Bay and the Beachheads. Shining a light on these Australians who tended the sick, mended the wounded and buried the dead in Papua makes stepping out of the shadows a little easier.

Author : Bruce M. Beehler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : John Westfall,William Sheehan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781493915354

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Celestial Shadows by John Westfall,William Sheehan Pdf

Much of what is known about the universe came from the study of celestial shadows. This book looks in detail at the way eclipses and other celestial shadows have given us amazing insights into the nature of the objects in our solar system and how they are even helping us discover and analyze planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. A variety of eclipses, transits, and occultations of the mooons of Jupiter and Saturn, Pluto and its satellite Charon, asteroids and stars have helped astronomers to work out their dimensions, structures, and shapes - even the existence of atmospheres and structures of exoplanets. Long before Columbus set out to reach the Far East by sailing West, the curved shadow of the Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse revealed that we inhabit a round world, a globe. More recently, comparisons of the sunlit and Earthlit parts of the Moon have been used to determine changes in the Earth's brightness as a way of monitoring possible effects in cloud coverage which may be related to global warming. Shadows were used by the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes to work out the first estimate of the circumference of the Earth, by Galileo to measure the heights of the lunar mountains and by eighteenth century astronomers to determine the scale of the Solar System itself. Some of the rarest and most wonderful shadows of all are those cast onto Earth by the lovely "Evening Star" Venus as it goes between the Earth and the Sun. These majestic transits of Venus occur at most two in a century; after the 2012 transit, there is not a chance to observe this phenomenon until 2117, while the more common sweep of a total solar eclipse creates one of the most dramatic and awe-inspiring events of nature. Though it may have once been a source of consternation or dread, solar eclipses now lead thousands of amateur astronomers and "eclipse-chasers" to travel the globe in order to experience the dramatic view under "totality." These phenomena are among the most spectacular available to observers and are given their full due in Westfall and Sheehan's comprehensive study.

Author : Douglas S. Farrer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402093562

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Shadows of the Prophet by Douglas S. Farrer Pdf

This is the first in-depth study of the Malay martial art, silat, and the first ethnographic account of the Haqqani Islamic Sufi Order. Drawing on 12 years of research and practice, the author provides a major contribution to the study of Malay culture.

Author : Bill Reed
Publisher : Reed Independent
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780648175698

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The Storyteller's Shadows by Bill Reed Pdf

In a volume containing 14 original plays – including three shadow-play adaptions of Gogol, Morton and Runyon classics – the author resurrects a sadly neglected theatre genre – the shadow play combining traditional shadow techniques with normal acting to create ‘full-bodied’ mainstream plays.

Author : Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262540878

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Shadows in the Forest by Peter Dauvergne Pdf

This book is the first to analyze the environmental impact of Japanese trade, corporations, and aid on timber management in the context of Southeast Asian political economies. It is also one of the first comprehensive studies of why Southeast Asian states are unable to enforce forest policies and regulations.

Author : Thomas D. Phillips
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612005478

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In the Shadows of Victory II by Thomas D. Phillips Pdf

Profiles of twenty US military leaders—unsung heroes whose accomplishments have been too little acknowledged and too seldom celebrated. The military history of the United States is replete with examples of leaders whose singular leadership is now little remembered or forgotten completely. This volume covers more than twenty leaders “in the shadows” during the four major conflicts the United States engaged in from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle years of the twentieth: the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, World War I, and World War II. To enable readers to put these exploits into proper context, each chapter traces the roots of the conflict covered and discusses the paths that led to America’s involvement. Throughout the book, examples are also noted of leaders whose major renown is associated with a specific war—John J. Pershing, America’s towering military figure during World War I, for example—who also rendered exemplary though largely forgotten service during a different conflict—in Pershing’s case, the Philippine Insurrection. Of special interest to many audiences may be the commentaries regarding the World War I services of officers such as Eisenhower, Marshall, Patton, and Bradley—an aspect of their long military careers overshadowed by their World War II renown and too often minimized in consequence. The book also features brief biographies of officers whose contributions, while perhaps a bit less consequential than those of colleagues chronicled elsewhere in these pages, are deserving of far more recognition than has thus far been accorded them. “A worthwhile read for anyone interested in military leadership.” —The NYMAS Review

Author : Mac Darrow
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781841133904

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Between Light and Shadow by Mac Darrow Pdf

This book provides a rigorous application of international legal rules governing the proper interpretation of the institutions' mandates.