ISBN:
0824822838
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 318 p
,
ill
,
24 cm
DDC:
700/.995
Keywords:
Art Oceania
;
Congresses
;
Performing arts Oceania
;
Congresses
;
Oceania Social life and customs
;
Congresses
;
Oceania
;
Social life and customs
;
Art
;
Oceania
;
Performing arts
;
Oceania
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift 1993
;
Ozeanien
;
Malagan
;
Fest
;
Zauberkunstrequisit
;
Ozeanien
;
Sozialpolitik
;
Kultur
Abstract:
The relationships between the evaluations of dance performance and the social system in Yap, Micronesia / Junko Konishi -- Clowning as political commentary : Polynesia - then and now / Vilsoni Hereniko -- Festivals, identity and performance : Tahiti and the 6th Pacific Arts Festival / Karen Stevensen -- Imaging the nation : the New Zealand International Exhibition 1906-07 and the Model Maori Pa / Bernie Kernot -- Art education in Samoa : acculturated identity / Regina Meredith -- Fat is beautiful : the body as art form in the Pacific / Nancy J. Pollock -- Artists as performers : the Flinders University Aboriginal Artists-in-Residence program re-reviewed / J.V.S. Megaw and M. Ruth Megaw -- Speaking as the 'other' / Brenda L. Croft -- Committed photography : recording history / museums and indigenous peoples : a perspective from Western Australia / John E. Stanton -- Old galleries, new people / Christopher Anderson -- A festival to honour the dead and revitalise society : masks and prestige in a Gamei community (Lower Ramu, Papua New Guinea) / Dirk Smidt and Soroi Marepo Eoe -- Sulka masked ceremonies and exchange / Chris Isaac and Barry Craig -- The significance of the tantanua dance within the Verem malagan / Noah J. Lurang -- Taxonomic structure and typology in the malagan ritual art tradition of Tabar, New Ireland / Michael Gunn -- The acoustic propeties of the Fijian 'slit-gongs' / Rod Ewins -- The woodcarvings of Matuaga, a 19th-century artist of the Massim district of Papua New Guinea / Harry Beran -- Women and the fibre arts of Papua New Guinea / Wendi Choulai and Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris -- Tree-houses, representation and photography on the Papuan coast, 1880 to 1930 / Max Quanchi -- 'Our ethnographical troops in the field' : Swedes and museum collecting in Melanesia circa 1900 / H(c)♭lena Regius -- Art of Astrolabe Bay : history of research, results and future research tasks / Gabor Vargyas -- Out of the doldrums : museums and cultural centres in Pacific Islands countries in the 1990s / Susan Cochrane -- Of old models and new in Pacific art : real or spurious? / Philip J.C. Dark
Description / Table of Contents:
The relationships between the evaluations of dance performance and the social system in Yap, Micronesia / Junko Konishi -- Clowning as political commentary : Polynesia - then and now / Vilsoni Hereniko -- Festivals, identity and performance : Tahiti and the 6th Pacific Arts Festival / Karen Stevensen -- Imaging the nation : the New Zealand International Exhibition 1906-07 and the Model Maori Pa / Bernie Kernot -- Art education in Samoa : acculturated identity / Regina Meredith -- Fat is beautiful : the body as art form in the Pacific / Nancy J. Pollock -- Artists as performers : the Flinders University Aboriginal Artists-in-Residence program re-reviewed / J.V.S. Megaw and M. Ruth Megaw -- Speaking as the 'other' / Brenda L. Croft -- Committed photography : recording history / museums and indigenous peoples : a perspective from Western Australia / John E. Stanton -- Old galleries, new people / Christopher Anderson -- A festival to honour the dead and revitalise society : masks and prestige in a Gamei community (Lower Ramu, Papua New Guinea) / Dirk Smidt and Soroi Marepo Eoe -- Sulka masked ceremonies and exchange / Chris Isaac and Barry Craig -- The significance of the tantanua dance within the Verem malagan / Noah J. Lurang -- Taxonomic structure and typology in the malagan ritual art tradition of Tabar, New Ireland / Michael Gunn -- The acoustic propeties of the Fijian 'slit-gongs' / Rod Ewins -- The woodcarvings of Matuaga, a 19th-century artist of the Massim district of Papua New Guinea / Harry Beran -- Women and the fibre arts of Papua New Guinea / Wendi Choulai and Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris -- Tree-houses, representation and photography on the Papuan coast, 1880 to 1930 / Max Quanchi -- 'Our ethnographical troops in the field' : Swedes and museum collecting in Melanesia circa 1900 / Hélena Regius -- Art of Astrolabe Bay : history of research, results and future research tasks / Gabor Vargyas -- Out of the doldrums : museums and cultural centres in Pacific Islands countries in the 1990s / Susan Cochrane -- Of old models and new in Pacific art : real or spurious? / Philip J.C. Dark.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-318)
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