Art and performance in Oceania / edited by Barry Craig, Bernie Kernot, Christopher Anderson

Object Details

Author

Craig, Barry

Kernot, B

Anderson, Christopher Dr

Pacific Arts Association (1974- )

Papers presented at the 5th International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association held 1993, Sydney, Australia.

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

1999

C1999

Type

Congresses

Physical description

viii, 318 p. : ill. maps ; 24 cm

Place

Oceania

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Art

Performing arts

Social life and customs

Record ID

siris_sil_687232

Metadata Usage (text)

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