TY - BOOK AU - Herle,Anita ED - Field Museum of Natural History. ED - Pacific Arts Association (1974- ). TI - Pacific art: persistence, change, and meaning SN - 082482556X AV - N7410. P32 2002 U1 - 704.0399442 PY - 2002///] CY - Honolulu PB - University of Hawaiʻi Press KW - Art KW - Oceania KW - Congresses KW - Art, Pacific Island KW - Art, Primitive N1 - 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 ER -