Pacific art : persistence, change, and meaning / edited by Anita Herle ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herle, Anita, 1956-

Field Museum of Natural History.

Pacific Arts Association (1974- ). International Symposium 1999 : Chicago, Ill.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Oceania--Congresses.

Art.

Art, Pacific Island--Congresses.

Art, Pacific Island.

Art--Congresses.

Art, Māori--Congresses.

Art, Māori.

Oceania.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 455 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2002]

Contents:

Testimonial / Hiri (Sidney) Moko Mead x

Introduction: Changing themes in the study of Pacific art / Robert L. Welsch 1

1. Persistence, change and meaning in Pacific art: A retrospective view with an eye towards the future / Philip J.C. Dark 13

Part 1 Interrogating the past through the photographic image 41

2. Using photographs to visualise the art of the Kilenge / Philip J.C. Dark 42

3. E.T. Gilliard's ethnographic photographs on the middle Sepik River: Kanganaman village, 1953-54 / George A. Corbin 60

4. Authorship and image: Hand-coloured glass lantern-slides from the Crane Pacific Expedition / Virginia-Lee Webb 82

Part 2 Defining and contesting identities through art 93

5. The persistence of facial scarification as body art in the eastern Solomon Islands / William H. Davenport 94

6. Art and identity in the Mariana Islands: The reconstruction of 'ancient' Chamorro dance / Judy Flores 106

7. A new hale for the nation: The Center for Hawaiian Studies, Manoa Campus, University of Hawai'i / Joshua A. Bell 114

8. From utilitarian to sacred: The transformation of a traditional Hawaiian object / Angela J. Neller 126

9. Cook Islands tivaevae: Migration and the display of culture in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Phyllis S. Herda 139

10. Museums and indigenous identity: Asmat carving in a global context / Nick Stanley 147

Part 3 Exploring museums, collectors and meanings 165

11. What's in a name? The search for meaning / Shirley Campbell 166

12. Exploring Solomon Islands shields: Vehicles of power in changing museum contexts / Deborah Waite 180

13. 'A stranger in a strange land': Kenneth Thomas in the North Sepik region of Papua New Guinea / Barry Craig 191

14. Objects mediating relationships: The Raymond Firth Collection from Tikopia, Solomon Islands, 1928 / Liz Bonshek 208

15. In the spirit of a different time: The legacy of early collecting practices in the Pacific / Carol E. Mayer 219

16. Objects, agency and museums: Continuing dialogues between the Torres Strait and Cambridge / Anita Herle 231

Part 4 Studying agency and objects 251

17. The gateways of Maketu: Ngati Pikiao carving style and the persistence of form / Roger Neich 252

18. 'Te Maori' in the longer view / Peter Gathercole 271

19. Reconstructing the Rapa Nui carver's perspective: Observations on the experimental replication of moai on Easter Island / Jo Anne Van Tilberg, Cristian Arevalo Pakarati 280

20. The structure of Tongan barkcloth design: Imagery, metaphor and allusion / Adrienne L. Kaeppler 291

21. Memorial images of eastern Fiji: Materials, metaphors and meanings / Steven Hooper 309

22. The craft of the Spider Woman: A history of bark baskets in the Tiwi Islands / Eric Venbrux 324

Part 5 Negotiating change in contemporary Pacific art 337

23. The impact of the commercial development of art on traditional culture in the Solomon Islands / Victor Totu 338

24. Contemporary Maori art and Berlin's Ethnological Museum / Marcus Schindlbeck 342

25. Painting for corroboree, painting for kartiya: Contemporary Aboriginal art in the East Kimberley, Western Australia / Eric Kjellgren 353

26. Transformations: Appreciation, appropriation and imagery in Indigenous Australian art / J.V.S. Megaw 370

27. Beyond all limits / Philippe Peltier 386

28. Marquesan art at the millennium / Carol S. Ivory 394

29. The island in the urban: Contemporary Pacific art in New Zealand / Karen Stevenson 404.

Notes:

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).

ISBN:

082482556X

OCLC:

47996195