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Detail of cover of OF ISLANDS AND MEN (maude1p 150/230 MAUD )

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Maude, H.E.. OF ISLANDS AND MEN. Studies in Pacific History.

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Craig, B., B. Kernot & C. Anderson (ed). ART AND PERFORMANCE IN OCEANIA. The Fifth International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association. BNo. 1-86333-185-9. First Edition, 1999. Pp: viii, 318; 230mm x 200mm; 1.15kg. 8 col, num b/w, fig & maps. Preface, introduction, contributors, references. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Crawford House Publishing Pty Ltd, Bathurst, 1999. (The symposium titled 'Art, Performance and Society', called for papers in sessions dealing with 'Production and Performance', 'Social and Cultural Context', 'The Record and the Remainder', and 'The Mission of Museums'. In all, some sixty papers were presented over a five-day period, twenty-four of which have been included in this book) (Keywords: Ethnology, Micronesia, Yap, Tahiti, Maori, Aboriginal art, Gamei, Papua New Guinea, Malagan, Tabar, Massim, Melanesia).
Book Code: Z005 AU$46
Note: Contributors and papers are:
(1) Konishi, Junko - The relationship between the evaluations of dance performance and the social system in Yap, Micronesia. (2) Hereniko, Vilsoni - Clowning as political commentary: Polynesia - then and now. (3 ) Stevensen, Karen - Festivals, identity and performance: Tahiti and the 6th Pacific Arts. (4 ) Kernot, Bernie - Imaging the nation: The New Zealand International Exhibition 1906-07 and the Model Maori Pa. (5) Meredith, Regina - Art education in Samoa: Acculturated identity. (6) Pollock, Nancy J. - Fat is beautiful: The body as art form in the Pacific. (7) Megaw, J.V.S. & M. Ruth Megaw - Artists as performers: The Flinders University Aboriginal Artists-in-Residence program re-reviewed. (8) Croft, Brenda L. - Speaking as the 'Other'. (9) Gemes, Juno - Committed photography: Recording history. (10) Fergie, Deane - Racism and the state: Critical reflections on the organisation of heritage institutions in South Australia. (11) Stanton, John E. - Ethnographic museums and indigenous peoples: A perspective from Western Australia. (12) Anderson, Christopher - Old galleries, new people. (13) Smidt, Dirk & Soroi Marepo Eoe - A festival to honour the dead and revitalise society: Masks and prestige in a Gamei community (Lower Ramu, Papua New Guinea). (14) Issac, Chris & Barry Craig - Sulka masked ceremonies and exchange. (15) Lurang, Noah J. - The significance of the tantanua dance within the Verem malagan. (16) Gunn, Michael - Taxonomic structure and typology in malagan ritual art tradition of Tabar, New Ireland. (17) Ewins, Rod - The acoustic properties of the Fijian 'slit-gongs'. (18) Beran, Harry - The Woodcarvings of Mutuaga, a 19th-century artist of the Massim district of Papua New Guinea. (19) Choulai, Wendi & Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris - Women and the fibre arts of Papua New Guinea. (20) Quanchi, Max - Tree-houses, representation and photography on the Papuan coast. (21) Regius, Helena - 'Our ethnological troops in the field': Swedes and museum collecting in Melanesia circa 1900. (22) Vargyas, Gabor - Art of Astrolabe Bay: History of research, results and future research tasks. (23) Cochrane, Susan - Out of the doldrums: Museums and cultural centres in Pacific Islands countries in the 1990s. (24) Dark, Philip J.C. - Of old models and new in Pacific art: Real or spurious?
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Detail of dust wrapper - A PATTERN OF ISLANDS (grimble2p 150/229 GRIM02)
Grimble, Arthur. A PATTERN OF ISLANDS. Gilbert and Ellice Islands. BNo. n/a. Reprint Edition, 1958 (1952). Pp: x, 250; 215mm x 140mm; 0.57kg. 17 fig, 1 map. Prologue, epilogue, index. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: g; dw: g. (minor wear on cvr; chipped dw). John Murray (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1956. (This book is a story about the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the Central Pacific woven into the travel-autobiography of the author, who, the day after his wedding in 1913, left England with his wife for the remotest corner of the British Empire. The author gives the reader numerous and fascinating glimpses of the island people, and of the slow steps by which he learnt to adapt himself to their customs and their point of view. Kiribati became ann independent sovereign nation in 1979 incorporating within its boundaries the former Gilbert Islands, the Line Islands and the Phoenix Islands) (Keywords: Travel, autobiography, Pacific, Micronesia, Polynesia, Gilbert, Ellice, Kiribati).
Book Code: C356 AU$18
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Detail of dust wrapper - RETURN TO THE ISLANDS (grimble04p 150/225 GRIM04 )
Grimble, Arthur. RETURN TO THE ISLANDS. Gilbert and Ellice Islands. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1957. Pp: viii, 215;215mm x 140mm; 0.52kg. 26 fig, 1 map. Prologue, epilogue. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: g. (wear on dw & cvr; minor chipping on dw). John Murray (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1957. (The story in this book is a sequel to the one told in A Pattern of Islands. It is about Sir Arthur's return to the friendship of the Gilbert and Ellice Islanders. It is also about his return to the anxieties and responsibilities on Baanaba (Ocean Island)) (Keywords: Colonial administration, politics, social anthropology, Pacific, Micronesia, Polynesia, Gilbert, Ellice, Kiribati).
Book Code: V327 AU$35
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Grimble, Arthur & H.E. Maude (editor). TUNGARU TRADITIONS. Writings on the Atoll Culture of the Gilbert Islands. BNo. 0-522-84386-7. First Edition, 1989. Pp: xxxii, 384; 235mm x 155mm; 0.74kg. 35 b/w, 13 fig, 9 tab, 1 map. Preface, acknowledgments, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1989. (The editor has collected from many different locations the complete ethnographic fieldnotes, reports and other papers of Arthur Grimble on the Gilbertese people) (Keywords: Ethnography, Pacific, Micronesia, Gilbert Islands).
Book Code: D008 AU$44
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Detail of wrap - TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE GILBERT ISLANDS - A Cultural Perspective (hockings5p 140/217 HOCK5 )
Hockings, John. TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE GILBERT ISLANDS. A Cultural Perspective. BNo. 0-7022-2179-1. First Edition, 1979 (pb). Pp: xii, 254; 210mm x 135mm; 0.23kg. num fig, 2 maps. Acknowledgments, glossary, preface, references, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (slight browning of edge paper). University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1989. (This study of Pacific Island architecture draws on five hundred years of cultural history. The author spent two years on Onotoa, an island in the Gilbert Group now known as Kiribati, gathering information on the traditional relationship between the people, their buildings and settlements) (Keywords: Architecture, Pacific, Micronesia, Gilbert Islands).
Book Code: L716 AU$20
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Linton, Wingert, D'Harnoncourt & Covarrubias. ARTS OF THE SOUTH SEAS. Museum of Modern Art, New York. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1946. Pp: 200; 255mm x 190mm; 0.82kg. 4 col, 190 b/w, 14 maps. Acknowledgments, bibliography. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: g. (minor wear on wrap). Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946. (This book was one of the first comprehensive surveys of the arts of the South Pacific islands. It covers all the major style regions from Hawaii to the Philippines) (Keywords: Ethnology, Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia, Australia).
Book Code: H452 AU$160
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Maude, H.E. OF ISLANDS AND MEN. Studies in Pacific History. BNo. AUS 67-535. First Edition, 1968. Pp: xxii, 398; 215mm x 140mm; 0.72kg. 20 b/w(pl), 20 maps. Preface, abbreviations, introduction, appendices, bibliography. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1968. (This book is a collection of some of the most colourful episodes in the story of the South Seas) (Keywords: Exploration, colonisation, Micronesia, Gilbert Islands, Tahiti, Phoenix Islands).
Book Code: C153 AU$45
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Detail of wrap - THE EVOLUTION OF THE GILBERTESE BOTI - An Ethnohistorical Interpretation (maude3p 140/210 MAUD3 )
Maude, H.E. THE EVOLUTION OF THE GILBERTESE BOTI. An Ethnohistorical Interpretation. BNo. n/a. Reprint Edition, 1991 (1963) (pb). Pp: 70; 215mm x 145mm; 0.14kg. 2 b/w, 8 fig, 2 maps. Appendices 1 to 5, notes on construction, references. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Institute of Pacific Studies, Suva, 1991. (This paper attempts an analysis of the complex of cultural traits which the Gilbertese associate together under the term 'boti') (Keywords: Ethnography, Micronesia, Gilbert Islands, Samoa).
Book Code: L711 AU$25
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Detail of dust wrapper - THE GILBERTESE MANEABA - Centre of the community social life (maude4p 145/205 MAUD4 )
Maude, H.E. THE GILBERTESE MANEABA. Centre of the community social life. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1980. Pp: xi, 54; 210mm x 150mm; 0.20kg. 7 b/w, 7 fig. Author's note, references, end notes. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Institute of Pacific Studies, Suva, 1980. (This study on the Gilbertese maneaba construction is based on information given to the author by the master-builders of the maneaba when he was rorobuaka in the 1930s) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Micronesia, Gilbert Islands).
Book Code: L110 AU$45
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