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Things We Value

Culture and History in Solomon Islands

Autor: Lissant Bolton, Ben Burt

Język:

Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Sean Kingston Publishing

Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy

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536.61 zł

The Things We Value takes as its subject the creativity and cultural heritage of Solomon Islands, fo...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Lissant Bolton, Ben Burt

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2014

strony

156

EAN

9781907774218

ISBN

1907774211

Enbook ID

12482524

Wydawca

Sean Kingston Publishing

Waga

780

Wymiary

285 x 226 x 16

Pełny opis

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.