Download or read book Melanesian Images written by Minnesota Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Melanesian Images Ritual Objects from Islands in the South Pacific written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Melanesian Images written by Patricia Heikenen and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Melanesian Images written by Minnesota Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Varilaku written by Crispin Howarth and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through over sixty works, this book explores traditional, or kastom, beliefs in ancestral ghosts, the world of spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expeditions and the indigenous aesthetics of the self - the use of adornments to express identity and status from the mid nineteenth to the mid twentieth centuries.--From back cover.

Download or read book Art of the Sepik River and the Papuan Gulf written by Marilyn Hunt-Nishi and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Art of the Pacific Islands written by P. W. Gathercole and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Du site de l'éd.: In spite of the wealth it has to offer, the art of the Pacific Islands remains perhaps the least known of the world's art to the modern audience. Throughout this mass of islands there existed hundreds of cultures, many of them sustained by only a few hundred people. The cultures developed into richly disparate modes with elaborate social systems and highly refined systems of intellectual and religious life. Most striking of all, however, is that these cultures created an extraordinary range of art styles to express and serve their beliefs. The aim of the exhibition this catalog accompanied was to highlight objects that were made before or collected at the earliest contact by Westerners, and which therefore reflect the most pristine state of the cultures. Many of the works included had never before been published or exhibited.

Download or read book Oceania written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes detailed chapters devoted to each of the five major cultural regions of the Pacific: Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the islands of Southeast Asia.

Download or read book Cargo Cult written by Lamont Lindstrom and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is not captivated by tales of Islanders earnestly scanning their watery horizons for great fleets of cargo ships bringing rice, radios and refrigerators - ships that will never arrive? Of all the stories spun about the island peoples of Melanesia, tales of cargo cult are among the most fascinating. The term cargo cult, Lamont Lindstrom contends, is one of anthropology's most successful conceptual offspring. Like culture, worldview and ethnicity, its usage has steadily proliferated, migrating into popular culture where today it is used to describe an astonishing roll-call of people. It's history makes for lively and compelling reading. The cargo cult story, Lindstrom shows, is more significant than it at first appears, for it recapitulates in summary form three generations of anthropological theory and Pacific studies. Although anthropologists' enthusiasm for the notion of cargo cult has waned, it now colors outsiders' understanding of Melanesian culture, and even Melanesians' perceptions of themselves. The repercussions for contemporary Islanders are significant: leaders of more than one political movement have felt the need to deny that they are any kind of cargo cultist. Of particular interest to this history is Lindstom's argument that accounts of cargo cult are at heart tragedies of thwarted desire, melancholy anticipation and crazy unrequited love. He makes a convincing case that these stories expose powerful Western scenarios of desire itself—giving cargo cult its combined titillation of the fascinating exotic and the comfortably familiar.

Download or read book Melanesian Art and Ritual written by Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Art of Oceania written by Louise Hanson and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Traditional Artifacts from the South Pacific written by University of Massachusetts at Amherst. University Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Arts in the Religions of the Pacific written by Albert C. Moore and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid art forms of Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and New Zealand are rooted in their religious cultures. This relationship is still apparent in the new and ever-evolving art forms of the modern Pacific world.

Download or read book Arts of the South Seas written by Ralph Linton and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an exhibition organized by Rene d'Harnoncourt at the Museum of Modern Art.