Pacific art : persistence, change, and meaning / edited by Anita Herle [and others].

Based on papers presented at the Sixth International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association held at Chicago's Field Museum in Oct., 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-455) and index.

Preface -- Testimonial -- Introduction: Changing themes in the study of Pacific art -- 1. Persistence, change and meaning in Pacific art: A retrospective view with an eye towards the future -- Pt. 1. Interrogating the past through the photographic image -- 2. Using photographs to visualise the art of the Kilenge -- 3. E. T. Gilliard's ethnographic photographs on the middle Sepik River: Kanganaman village, 1953-54 -- 4. Authorship and image: Hand-coloured glass lantern-slides from the Crane Pacific Expedition -- Pt. 2. Defining and contesting identities through art -- 5. The persistence of facial scarification as body art in the eastern Solomon Islands -- 6. Art and identity in the Mariana Islands: The reconstruction of 'ancient' Chamorro dance -- 7. A new hale for the nation: The Center for Hawaiian Studies, Manoa Campus, University of Hawai'i -- 8. From utilitarian to sacred: The transformation of a traditional Hawaiian object -- 9. Cook Islands tivaevae: Migration and the display of culture in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- 10. Museums and indigenous identity: Asmat carving in a global context -- Pt. 3. Exploring museums, collectors and meanings -- 11. What's in a name? The search for meaning -- 12. Exploring Solomon Islands shields: Vehicles of power in changing museum contexts -- 13. 'A stranger in a strange land': Kenneth Thomas in the North Sepik region of Papua New Guinea -- 14. Objects mediating relationships: The Raymond Firth Collection from Tikopia, Solomon Islands, 1928 -- 15. In the spirit of a different time: The legacy of early collecting practices in the Pacific -- 16. Objects, agency and museums: Continuing dialogues between the Torres Strait and Cambridge -- Pt. 4. Studying agency and objects -- 17. The gateways of Maketu: Ngati Pikiao carving style and the persistence of form -- 18. 'Te Maori' in the longer view -- 19. Reconstructing the Rapa Nui carver's perspective: Observations on the experimental replication of moai on Easter Island -- 20. The structure of Tongan barkcloth design: Imagery, metaphor and allusion -- 21. Memorial images of eastern Fiji: Materials, metaphors and meanings -- 22. The craft of the Spider Woman: A history of bark baskets in the Tiwi Islands -- Pt. 5. Negotiating change in contemporary Pacific art -- 23. The impact of the commercial development of art on traditional culture in the Solomon Islands -- 24. Contemporary Maori art and Berlin's Ethnological Museum -- 25. Painting for corroborce, painting for kartiya: Contemporary Aboriginal art in the East Kimberley, Western Australia -- 26. Transformations: Appreciation, appropriation and imagery in Indigenous Australian art -- 27. Beyond all limits -- 28. Marquesan art at the millennium -- 29. The island in the urban: Contemporary Pacific art in New Zealand -- Contributors -- References.

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