edited by Sidney M. Mead ; assisted by Isabelle Brymer and Susan Martich.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Honolulu :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University Press of Hawaii,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c1979.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xviii, 455 p. :
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ill. ;
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25 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes index.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Bibliography: p. [419]-450.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Early Lapita art from Polynesia and Island Melanesia: continuities in ceramic, bark-cloth and tattoo decorations / Roger C. Green -- Prehistoric and recent art styles in Papua New Guinea / Douglas Newton -- Rock art in the western Pacific / Jim Specht -- Archaeology of Australian aboriginal art / Lesley Maynard -- Art of Irian Jaya: a survey / Adrian A. Gerbrands -- Art of the peoples of Western New Britain and their neighbours / Philip J. C. Dark -- Art of the baining: New Britain / George A. Corbin -- Survey of Polynesian art / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Equivocal nature of a masking tradition in Polynesia / Jehanne H. Teilhet -- On the origin and diversity of 'Tahitian' Janiform Fly Whisks / Roger G. Rose -- Changing attitudes to the study of Maori carving / Peter Gathercole -- Admiralty Island 'Ancestor' figures? / Mino Badner -- Aspects of style and symbolism in the art of the Solomon Islands / Deborah B. Waite -- Style provinces and trading areas in North and Northeast New Guinea / Tibor Bodrogi -- Problem of meaning in art / Anthony Forge -- Aesthetics of the Aika / Erik Schwimmer -- Artmanship in the Star Harbour region / Sidney M. Mead -- Art and artists in the context of Kwoma society / Christian Kaufmann -- Adam Smith in the garden: supply, demand, and art production in New Britain / David R. Counts -- Where does art begin on Puluwat? / Peter W. Steager -- New directions in contemporary arts / Nelson H. H. Graburn -- Traditional handicraft in a changing society: manufacture and function of stenciled tapa on Moce Island / Simon Kooijman -- Art in changing New Ireland / Phillip Lewis -- Establishing museums in developing countries: the case of Papua New Guinea / Dirk Smidt -- Toward the scientific study of art in Melanesia / Jean Guiart -- Conclusion: themes in the study of Oceanic art / Roy L. Carlson.