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Book Shapes in Tonga

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carolyn Collis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781927304525
  • Pages : 10 pages

Download or read book Shapes in Tonga written by Carolyn Collis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bears visit Tonga and describe objects by shape. This story can be integrated with topics of learning to sort by shape. 34 running words. Repeated sentence structure: Look for a. Level 5. Suggested level: junior.

Book Colours in Tonga

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carolyn Collis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781927304532
  • Pages : 10 pages

Download or read book Colours in Tonga written by Carolyn Collis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bears visit Tonga and sort objects by colour. This story can be integrated with activities on learning to sort by colour. 27 running words. Repeated sentence structure: Look for. Level 5. Suggested level: junior.

Book Changing Shape of Traditional House Forms in Tonga

Download or read book Changing Shape of Traditional House Forms in Tonga written by Isileli Vea and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unwrapping Tongan Barkcloth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fanny Wonu Veys
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-01-26
  • ISBN : 1474283306
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Unwrapping Tongan Barkcloth written by Fanny Wonu Veys and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tongan barkcloth, made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree, still features lavishly in Polynesian ceremonies all over the world. Yet despite the attention paid to this textile by anthropologists and art historians alike, little is known about its history. Providing a unique insight into Polynesian material culture, this book explores barkcloth's rich cultural history, and argues that its manufacture, decoration and use are vehicles of creativity and female agency. Based on twelve years of extensive ethnographic and archival research, the book uncovers stories of ceremony, gender, the senses, religion and nationhood, from the 17th century up to the present-day. Placing the materiality of textiles at the heart of Tongan culture, Veys reveals not only how barkcloth was and continues to be made, but also how it defines what it means to be Tongan. Extending the study to explore the place of barkcloth in the European imagination, she examines international museum collections of Tongan barkcloth, from the UK and Italy to Switzerland and the USA, addressing the bias of the European 'gaze' and challenging traditional gendered understandings of the cloth. A nuanced narrative of past and present barkcloth manufacture, designs and use, Unwrapping Tongan Barkcloth demonstrates the importance of the textile to both historical and contemporary Polynesian culture.

Book The Art of Tonga

    Book Details:
  • Author : Keith St. Cartmail
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1997-10-01
  • ISBN : 9780824819729
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book The Art of Tonga written by Keith St. Cartmail and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tongan art, with its elegant sculpture, headrests, body adornment, clubs, containers, tools and fibre work, has made an outstanding contribution to the culture of Oceania. In The Art of Tonga, Keith St. Cartmail's achievement is to draw together all the strands of this island kingdom's material culture into a single volume--surprisingly no other work has done this to date. The author begins by outlining the history of Tonga, then comprehensively details all aspects of Tongan art, ancient and modern. He clearly documents the significance and widespread influence of this beautiful art work through West Polynesia, and argues that despite recent neglect, and in spite of being mutilated and destroyed by missionaries, and dispersed by collectors to all corners of the earth, Tongan art is nonetheless alive and well. Authoritative and accessible, The Art of Tonga is lavishly illustrated with superb and important examples of Tongan art from throughout its history. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the magnificent cultures of Oceania.

Book Move in Tonga

Download or read book Move in Tonga written by Carolyn Collis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The bears watch how people are moving around in Tongatapu"--Back cover.

Book Archaeology of Tonga

Download or read book Archaeology of Tonga written by Will Carleton McKern and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Looking Forward  Looking Back  Drawing on the Past to Shape the Future of Marketing

Download or read book Looking Forward Looking Back Drawing on the Past to Shape the Future of Marketing written by Colin Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This volume includes the full proceedings from the 2013 World Marketing Congress held in Melbourne, Australia with the theme Looking Forward, Looking Back: Drawing on the Past to Shape the Future of Marketing. The focus of the conference and the enclosed papers is on marketing thought and practices throughout the world. This volume resents papers on various topics including marketing management, marketing strategy, and consumer behavior. Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research, and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses and symposia that attract delegates from around the world. Presentations from these events are published in this Proceedings series, which offers a comprehensive archive of volumes reflecting the evolution of the field. Volumes deliver cutting-edge research and insights, complimenting the Academy’s flagship journals, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and AMS Review. Volumes are edited by leading scholars and practitioners across a wide range of subject areas in marketing science.​

Book Designs of Tonga

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fraser Williamson
  • Publisher : Stemmer House Pub
  • Release : 2003-11
  • ISBN : 9780880451529
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Designs of Tonga written by Fraser Williamson and published by Stemmer House Pub. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides traditional designs of the Polynesian Islands of Tonga, including bark cloth, paintings, carvings, implements and weapons.

Book The Earth s Shape and Gravity

Download or read book The Earth s Shape and Gravity written by G. D. Garland and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth's Shape and Gravity focuses on the progress of the use of geophysical methods in investigating the interior of the earth and its shape. The publication first offers information on gravity, geophysics, geodesy, and geology and gravity measurements. Discussions focus on gravity measurements and reductions, potential and equipotential surfaces, absolute and relative measurements, and gravity networks. The text then elaborates on the shape of the sea-level surface and reduction of gravity observations. The text takes a look at gravity anomalies and structures in the earth's crust; interpretation of gravity anomalies; and gravity anomalies and the interior of the earth. Topics include general principle; direct and indirect methods; low order harmonics in the gravitational field; rock densities; ocean trenches; and sedimentary basins. The book then examines the place of gravity measurements in geophysical prospecting and tidal variations of gravity. The manuscript is a dependable source of information for readers interested in the shape and gravity of the earth.

Book Oceania  The Shape of Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maia Nuku
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2023-05-31
  • ISBN : 1588397661
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Oceania The Shape of Time written by Maia Nuku and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visual arts of Oceania tell a wealth of dynamic stories about origins, ancestral power, performance, and initiation. This publication explores the deeply rooted connections between Austronesian-speaking peoples, whose ancestral homelands span Island Southeast Asia, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the island archipelagoes of the northern and eastern Pacific. Unlike previous books, it foregrounds Indigenous perspectives, alongside multidisciplinary research in art history, ethnography, and archaeology, to provide an intimate look at Oceania, its art, and its culture. Stunning new photography highlights more than 130 magnificent objects, ranging from elaborately carved ancestral figures in ceremonial houses, towering slit drums, and dazzling turtle-shell masks to polished whale ivory breastplates. Underscoring the powerful interplay between the ocean and its islands, and the ongoing connection with spiritual and ancestral realms, Oceania: The Shape of Time presents an art-focused approach to life and culture while guiding readers through the artistic achievements of Islanders across millennia.

Book Lines That Connect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Graeme Were
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2010-08-31
  • ISBN : 0824860489
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Lines That Connect written by Graeme Were and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on historical and contemporary literature in anthropology and art theory, Lines That Connect treats pattern as a material form of thought that provokes connections between disparate things through processes of resemblance, memory, and transformation. Pattern is constantly in a state of motion as it traverses spatial and temporal divides and acts as an endless source for innovation through its inherent transformability. Graeme Were argues that it is the ideas carried by pattern’s relational capacity that allows Pacific islanders to express their links to land, genealogy, and resources in the most economic ways. In doing so, his book is a timely and unique contribution to the analysis of pattern and decorative art in the Pacific amid growing debates in anthropology and art history. This striking and original study brings together objects and photographs, historical literature and contemporary ethnographic case studies to explore pattern in its logical workings. It presents the first-ever analysis of the well-known patterned shell valuable called kapkap as revealed in New Ireland mortuary feasts. Innovative research in the study of Christianity and the Baha’i faithful in the region shows how pattern has been appropriated in new religious communities. Were argues that pattern is used in various guises in performances, church architecture, and funerary images to contrasting effect. He explores the conditions under which pattern facilitates a connecting of old and new ideas and how missionary processes are implicated in this flow. He then considers the mechanisms under which pattern is internalized, paying particular attention to its embeddedness in spatial and numerical thinking. Finally, he examines how pattern carries new materials and technologies, which in turn provide new resources for sustaining old beliefs. Drawing on a multitude of fields (anthropology; art history; Pacific, museum, and religious studies; education; ethnomathematics), Lines That Connect raises key questions about the capacity of pattern across the Pacific to bind and sustain ideas about place, body, and genealogy in the most logical of ways.

Book The Art of Tonga

    Book Details:
  • Author : Keith St. Cartmail
  • Publisher : Harwood Academic Publishers
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9789057030628
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book The Art of Tonga written by Keith St. Cartmail and published by Harwood Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tongan art, with its elegant sculpture, headrests, body adornment, clubs, containers, tools and fibre work, has made an outstanding contribution to the culture of Oceania. In The Art of Tonga, Keith St Cartmail's achievement is to draw together all the strands of this island kingdom's material culture into a single volume - surprisingly no other work has done this to date. The author begins by outlining the history of Tonga, then comprehensively details all aspects of Tongan art, ancient and modern. He clearly documents the significance and widespread influence of this beautiful art work through West Polynesia, and argues that despite recent neglect, and in spite of being mutilated and destroyed by missionaries, and dispersed by collectors to all corners of the earth, Tongan art is nonetheless alive and well.

Book Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds

Download or read book Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds written by David W. Steadman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Landfalls of Paradise

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  • Author : Earl R. Hinz
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2006-04-30
  • ISBN : 9780824830373
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Landfalls of Paradise written by Earl R. Hinz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The only complete cruising guide to the islands of the Pacific . . . a must." —Islands "A trove of information for the cruiser planning to set sail for the Pacific. . . A very readable, easy-to-follow guide." —Santana The fifth edition of this sailing standard includes updated charts and text reflecting changes in regulations and facilities for most countries and specific ports of entry. New appendices include procedures for entry to Australia, which are more exacting than most Pacific landfalls, and an extensive list of information sources: cruising guidebooks, important general tourist guides, chart suppliers, and key web sites for the countries covered by Landfalls of Paradise.

Book A Vocabulary of the Tonga Language

Download or read book A Vocabulary of the Tonga Language written by Stephen Rabone and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Archaeology of Rock Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Chippindale
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780521576192
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book The Archaeology of Rock Art written by Christopher Chippindale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures, painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces, are amongst our loveliest relics from prehistory. This pioneering set of sparkling essays goes beyond guesses as to what the pictures mean, instead exploring how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times: in short, rock-art as archaeology. Sometimes contact-period records offer some direct insight about indigenous meaning, so we can learn in that informed way. More often, we have no direct record, and instead have to use formal methods to learn from the evidence of the pictures themselves. The book's eighteen papers range wide in space and time, from the Palaeolithic of Europe to nineteenth-century Australia. Using varied approaches within the consistent framework of informed and proven methods, they make key advances in using the striking and reticent evidence of rock-art to archaeological benefit.