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Book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits  Physiology and psychology  pt  1  Introduction and vision

Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits Physiology and psychology pt 1 Introduction and vision written by Alfred Cort Haddon and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits

Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits  1912  Vol  4

Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits 1912 Vol 4 written by Alfred C. Haddon and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, 1912, Vol. 4: Arts and Crafts The present volume deals with the arts of life in Torres Straits, including those actions and objects which are connected with its material and aesthetic aspects. The social and magico-religious Observances have been fully treated in Volumes V. And VI., and the objects (or artifacts as it is convenient to term them) relating to the various ceremonies have been described in their appropriate places. In order however to render more complete the survey of the material life of the Islanders, these artifacts have sometimes been referred to in the present volume, more particularly when the objects in question are also worn or employed on other than ceremonial occasions. As I have mentioned elsewhere, the Islanders have such close relations with the neighbouring inhabitants of New Guinea (including the islands of the Fly River delta) that it has often been impossible to distinguish between. Their several artifacts: I have not hesitated then to describe many objects which I know to have been imported from New Guinea'. In only a few instances, such for example as the section on Houses, is reference made to Papuan artifacts which do not occur on the islands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits

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Book Reports of the Cambridge anthropological expedition to Torres Straits  4  Arts and crafts

Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge anthropological expedition to Torres Straits 4 Arts and crafts written by [Anonymus AC03602957] and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits

Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits written by Alfred C. Haddon and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits  Volume 4  Arts and Crafts

Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits Volume 4 Arts and Crafts written by A. C. Haddon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume concentrates on various traditions in arts and crafts from Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Borneo.

Book Arts and crafts in the Torres Straits

Download or read book Arts and crafts in the Torres Straits written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review of Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, v.4; Arts and crafts; some minor criticisms of nomenclature and arrangement; references to Australian influence on islands; most of vol. is work of A.C. Haddon.

Book Woven Histories  Dancing Lives

Download or read book Woven Histories Dancing Lives written by Richard Davis and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Woven Histories, Dancing Lives is a collection of essays that communicates the unique histories and cultures of Torres Strait Islanders to a broad audience. Not only have Islanders long absorbed the cultural influences from two surrounding landmasses and, more recently, negotiated the development of two nations in the region, their lives have been transformed by 150 years of immigration and new economic and political conditions. In this collection, readers will discover the remarkable cultural diversity that has emerged from this history." "The contributors offer new reflections on inter-ethic relationships, identity concerns, gender relations and the political struggles of Islanders."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Testing Hearing

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  • Author : Alexandra Hui
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0197511120
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Testing Hearing written by Alexandra Hui and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship. Since the early nineteenth century, auditory test tools (whether organ pipes or electronic tone generators) and the results of hearing tests have fed back into instrument calibration, human training, architecture, and the creation of new musical sounds. Hearing tests received a further boost around 1900 as a result of injury compensation laws and state and professional demands for aptitude testing in schools, conservatories, the military, and other fields. Applied at large scale, tests of seemingly small measure-of auditory acuity, of hearing range-helped redefine the modern concept of hearing as such. During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the epistemic function of hearing expanded. Hearing took on the dual role of test object and test instrument; in the latter case, human hearing became a gauge by which to evaluate or regulate materials, nonhuman organisms, equipment, and technological systems. This book considers both the testing of hearing and testing with hearing to explore the co-creation of modern epistemic and auditory cultures. The book's twelve contributors trace the design of ever more specific tests for the arts, education and communication, colonial and military applications, sociopolitical and industrial endeavors. Together, they demonstrate that testing as such became an enduring and wide-ranging cultural technique in the modern period, one that is situated between histories of scientific experimentation and many fields of application.

Book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea written by Ian J. McNiven and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 1169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 65,000 years ago, modern humans arrived in Australia, having navigated more than 100 km of sea crossing from southeast Asia. Since then, the large continental islands of Australia and New Guinea, together with smaller islands in between, have been connected by land bridges and severed again as sea levels fell and rose. Along with these fluctuations came changes in the terrestrial and marine environments of both land masses. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea reviews and assembles the latest findings and ideas on the archaeology of the Australia-New Guinea region, the world's largest island-continent. In 42 new chapters written by 77 contributors, it presents and explores the archaeological evidence to weave stories of colonisation; megafaunal extinctions; Indigenous architecture; long-distance interactions, sometimes across the seas; eel-based aquaculture and the development of techniques for the mass-trapping of fish; occupation of the High Country, deserts, tropical swamplands and other, diverse land and waterscapes; and rock art and symbolic behaviour. Together with established researchers, a new generation of archaeologists present in this Handbook one, authoritative text where Australia-New Guinea archaeology now lies and where it is heading, promising to shape future directions for years to come.

Book Uncovering Pacific Pasts

Download or read book Uncovering Pacific Pasts written by Hilary Howes and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020, sought to bring together both notable and relatively unknown Pacific material culture and archival collections from around the globe, displaying them simultaneously in their home institutions and linked online at www.uncoveringpacificpasts.org. Thirty‑eight collecting institutions participated in UPP, including major collecting institutions in the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the Americas, as well as collecting institutions from across the Pacific.

Book First Knowledges Innovation

Download or read book First Knowledges Innovation written by Ian J McNiven and published by Thames & Hudson Australia. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt 'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard Flanagan What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. First Nations Australians are some of the oldest innovators in the world. Original developments in social and religious activities, trading strategies, technology and land-management are underpinned by philosophies that strengthen sustainability of Country and continue to be utilised today. Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity reveals novel and creative practices such as: body shaping; cremation; sea hunting with the help of suckerfish; building artificial reefs for oyster farms; repurposing glass from Europeans into spearheads; economic responses to colonisation; and a Voice to Parliament. In the first book to detail Indigenous innovations in Australia, Ian J McNiven and Lynette Russell showcase this legacy of First Nations peoples and how they offer resourceful ways of dealing with contemporary challenges that can benefit us all. *Ebook available through all major etailers*

Book Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines written by Mitchell Rolls and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian Aborigines first arrived on the continent at least 60,000 years ago. They almost certainly landed on the northwest coast by sea from the nearby islands of the Indonesian archipelago. That first arrival may have been replicated many times over. The following exploration and settlement of a vast and varied continent was a venture of heroic proportions. The new settlers had reached southern Tasmania, the point farthest from the original landfall at least 30,000 years ago. By the early 17th century, when the first European seafarers arrived in Australian waters, the Aboriginal nations were living in every part of the continent, having colonized the tropical rainforests of the north, the vast arid deserts of the interior, and the cool and damp woodlands of the southeast. The Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines relates the history of Australia's indigenous inhabitants from their arrival on the continent 60,000 years ago to the centuries long European colonization process starting in the 1600s to their role in today's Australia. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Australian Aboriginal peoples.

Book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits     Volume 4

Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits Volume 4 written by Alfred C 1855-1940 Haddon and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.