Pacific art : persistence, change, and meaning /
edited by Anita Herle [and others].
- x, 455 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
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 -- Persistence, change and meaning in Pacific art: A retrospective view with an eye towards the future -- Interrogating the past through the photographic image -- Using photographs to visualise the art of the Kilenge -- E. T. Gilliard's ethnographic photographs on the middle Sepik River: Kanganaman village, 1953-54 -- Authorship and image: Hand-coloured glass lantern-slides from the Crane Pacific Expedition -- Defining and contesting identities through art -- The persistence of facial scarification as body art in the eastern Solomon Islands -- Art and identity in the Mariana Islands: The reconstruction of 'ancient' Chamorro dance -- A new hale for the nation: The Center for Hawaiian Studies, Manoa Campus, University of Hawai'i -- From utilitarian to sacred: The transformation of a traditional Hawaiian object -- Cook Islands tivaevae: Migration and the display of culture in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Museums and indigenous identity: Asmat carving in a global context -- Exploring museums, collectors and meanings -- What's in a name? The search for meaning -- Exploring Solomon Islands shields: Vehicles of power in changing museum contexts -- 'A stranger in a strange land': Kenneth Thomas in the North Sepik region of Papua New Guinea -- Objects mediating relationships: The Raymond Firth Collection from Tikopia, Solomon Islands, 1928 -- In the spirit of a different time: The legacy of early collecting practices in the Pacific -- Objects, agency and museums: Continuing dialogues between the Torres Strait and Cambridge -- Studying agency and objects -- The gateways of Maketu: Ngati Pikiao carving style and the persistence of form -- 'Te Maori' in the longer view -- Reconstructing the Rapa Nui carver's perspective: Observations on the experimental replication of moai on Easter Island -- The structure of Tongan barkcloth design: Imagery, metaphor and allusion -- Memorial images of eastern Fiji: Materials, metaphors and meanings -- The craft of the Spider Woman: A history of bark baskets in the Tiwi Islands -- Negotiating change in contemporary Pacific art -- The impact of the commercial development of art on traditional culture in the Solomon Islands -- Contemporary Maori art and Berlin's Ethnological Museum -- Painting for corroborce, painting for kartiya: Contemporary Aboriginal art in the East Kimberley, Western Australia -- Transformations: Appreciation, appropriation and imagery in Indigenous Australian art -- Beyond all limits -- Marquesan art at the millennium -- The island in the urban: Contemporary Pacific art in New Zealand -- Contributors -- References. 1. Pt. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. 2. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Pt. 3. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Pt. 4. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Pt. 5. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.