|
Showing 1 - 2 of
2 matches in All Departments
The Things We Value takes as its subject the creativity and
cultural heritage of Solomon Islands, focusing on the kinds of
objects produced and valued by local communities across this
diverse country in the south-west Pacific. Combining historical and
interpretive analyses with personal memories and extensive
illustrations, the contributors examine such distinctive forms as
red feather-money, shell valuables, body ornaments, war canoes,
ancestral stones and wood carvings. Their essays discuss the
materials, designs, manufacture, properties and meanings of
artefacts from across the country. Solomon Islanders value these
things variously as currency, heirlooms and commodities, for their
beauty, power and sanctity, and as bearers of the historical
identities and relationships which sustain them in a rapidly
changing world. The volume brings together indigenous experts and
leading international scholars as authors of the most
geographically comprehensive anthology of Solomon Islands
ethnography yet published. It engages with historical and
contemporary issues from a range of perspectives, anthropological
and archaeological, communal and personal, and makes a major new
contribution to Pacific Islands studies.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.