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Pacific Presences - Volume 1 : Oceanic Art And European Museums
Paperback Edition: 1
Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms and canoes. These collections constitute a remarkable resource for understanding history and society across Oceania, cross-cultural encounters since the voyages of Captain Cook, and the colonial transformations that have taken place since. They are also collections of profound importance for Islanders today, who have varied responses to their displaced heritage, and renewed interest in ancestral forms and practices.
This two-volume book enlarges understandings of Oceanic art and enables new reflection upon museums and ways of working in and around them. In dialogue with Islanders perspectives, It exemplifies a growing commitment on the part of scholars and curators to work collaboratively and responsively.
Volume I focuses on the historical formation of ethnographic museums within Europe, the making of those institutions Pacific collections, and the activation and re-activation of those collections, over time and in the present.
Featured in the 3 December 2018 Pasifika newsletter.
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Pages : 254
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Publication date : 2018-12-03
Subjects: Non-fiction, Pasifika, Pacific Art And Crafts