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Author : Ralph Linton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:911677872
Author : Ralph Linton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120056861
Author : Gerd Koch
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Industries, Primitive
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Edwin N. Ferdon
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816550968
The Marquesas Islands of the South Pacific have been inhabited by Polynesian peoples since around A.D. 300 but were not visited by Europeans until 1595. Ferdon has drawn on the records of these early visitors to paint a broad picture of Marquesan social organization, religion, material culture, and daily life.
Author : Lu Ann De Cunzo,Catharine Dann Roeber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108659871
Material culture studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the relationships between people and their things: the production, history, preservation, and interpretation of objects. It draws on theory and practice from disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, such as anthropology, archaeology, history, and museum studies. Written by leading international scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive view of developments, methodologies and theories. It is divided into five broad themes, embracing both classic and emerging areas of research in the field. Chapters outline transformative moments in material culture scholarship, and present research from around the world, focusing on multiple material and digital media that show the scope and breadth of this exciting field. Written in an easy-to-read style, it is essential reading for students, researchers and professionals with an interest in material culture.
Author : TE RANGI HIROA
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Peter Henry Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Aitutaki (Cook Islands)
ISBN : UOM:39015004717057
Author : Wendy S. Arbeit
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990-07-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0824812816
Baskets in Polynesia provides an overview of baskets made throughout central Polynesia from the time of early European contact to the present, observing and comparing regional similarities and differences over the course of two hundred years. Wendy Arbeit has collected and augmented much scattered data. The handsome studio photographs complement the text and show the basic techniques involved in the creation of the baskets, while field photographs show baskets in use. Tables present succinct summaries of regional basket types and the great variety of coconut frond baskets. Once baskets played an integral part in everyday life in Polynesia. Baskets are still made today, but their role has altered dramatically as a result of changing lifestyles in the island cultures. Most baskets are now created by older women, and knowledge of the techniques of plaiting is in peril of being lost altogether. Documentation of basketry in Polynesia has been uneven and for some island groups totally lacking. With this important book, Arbeit remedies this situation.This attractive and informative work will appeal to readers with an interest in Polynesia and to artisans in ethnic crafts.
Author : Sharyn Jones O'Day,Wim Van Neer,Anton Ervynck
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782979135
This book is the first in a series of volumes which form the published proceedings of the 9th meeting of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), held in Durham in 2002. The 35 papers present a series of case studies from around the world. They stretch beyond the standard zooarchaeological topics of economy and ecology, and consider how zooarchaeological research can contribute to our understanding of human behaviour and social systems. The volume is divided into two parts. Part 1, Beyond Calories, focuses on the zooarchaeology of ritual and religion. Contributors discuss ways to approach questions of ritual and religion through the faunal record, and consider how material culture depicting and/or associated with animals can provides clues about ideology, religious practices and the role of animals within spiritual systems. Part 2, Equations for Inequality, looks at questions of identity, status and other forms of social differentiation in former human societies. Contributors discuss how differences in food consumption, nutrition, and food procurement strategies can be related to various forms of social differentiation among individuals and groups.
Author : Benjamin Fleming,Richard Mann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135013721
Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in ‘classical’ languages. Not only has a focus on literary evidence shaped the dominant narratives about the religious histories of Asia, in both scholarship and popular culture, but it has contributed to the tendency to study different religious traditions in relative isolation from one another. Today, moreover, historical work is often based on modern textual editions and, increasingly, on electronic databases. What may be lost, in the process, is the visceral sense of the text as artifact – as a material object that formed part of a broader material culture, in which the boundaries between religious traditions were sometimes more fluid than canonical literature might suggest. This volume brings together specialists in a variety of Asian cultures to discuss the methodological challenges involved in integrating material evidence for the reconstruction of the religious histories of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. By means of specific ‘test cases,’ the volume explores the importance of considering material and literary evidence in concert. What untold stories do these sources help us to recover? How might they push us to reevaluate historical narratives traditionally told from literary sources? By addressing these questions from the perspectives of different subfields and religious traditions, contributors map out the challenges involved in interpreting different types of data, assessing the problems of interpretation distinct to specific types of material evidence (e.g., coins, temple art, manuscripts, donative inscriptions) and considering the issues raised by the different patterns in the preservation of such evidence in different locales. Special attention is paid to newly-discovered and neglected sources; to our evidence for trade, migration, and inter-regional cultural exchange; and to geographical locales that served as "contact zones" connecting cultures. In addition, the chapters in this volume represent the rich range of religious traditions across Asia – including Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, and Chinese religions, as well as Islam and eastern Christianities.
Author : Victor Buchli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415336422
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Author : Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191539992
The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface. Comprising thousands of islands and hundreds of cultural groups, Polynesia and Micronesia cover a large part of this vast ocean, from the dramatic mountains of Hawaii to the small, flat coral islands of Kiribati. Including both traditional and contemporary arts, this book introduces the rich artistic traditions of these two regions, traditions that have had a considerable impact on western art in the twentieth century through the influence of artists such as Gauguin. Instead of looking at Polynesia and Micronesia separately, the book focuses on the artistic types, styles, and concepts that they share, placing each in its wider cultural context. From the textiles of Tonga to the canoes of Tahiti, Adrienne Kaeppler looks at religious and sacred rituals and objects, carving, architecture, tattooing, personal ornaments, basket-making, clothing, textiles, fashion, the oral arts, dance, music and musical instruments - even canoe-construction - to provide the ultimate introduction to the rich and vibrant artistic cultures of the Polynesian and Micronesian islands.
Author : Philip J. C. Dark,Roger G. Rose
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0824815734
“The great value of [this work] is the uniformly high quality of papers and their revelation of contemporary trends in Oceanic art research.” —Ethnoarts
Author : Ian Lilley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405152297
This book is a state-of-the-art introduction to the archaeology of Oceania, covering both Australia and the Pacific Islands. The first text to provide integrated treatment of the archaeologies of Australia and the Pacific Islands Enables readers to form a coherent overview of cultural developments across the region as a whole Brings together contributions from some of the region’s leading scholars Focuses on new discoveries, conceptual innovations, and postcolonial realpolitik Challenges conventional thinking on major regional and global issues in archaeology
Author : Susanna Harris,Laurence Douny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315415635
This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as baby swaddling, Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, lace underwear, textile clothing, and contemporary African silk, the dozen archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place. Employing methods of artifact analysis, microscopy, and participant observation, the contributors provide a new lens on material culture and its relationship to cultural meaning.