Author: Arthur Capell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aniwa (Island)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Non Aboriginal material.
The Culture and Language of Futuna and Aniwa, New Hebrides
Author: Arthur Capell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aniwa (Island)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Non Aboriginal material.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aniwa (Island)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Non Aboriginal material.
An Archaeology of Early Christianity in Vanuatu
Author: James L. Flexner
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760460753
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Religious change is at its core a material as much as a spiritual process. Beliefs related to intangible spirits, ghosts, or gods were enacted through material relationships between people, places, and objects. The archaeology of mission sites from Tanna and Erromango islands, southern Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides), offer an informative case study for understanding the material dimensions of religious change. One of the primary ways that cultural difference was thrown into relief in the Presbyterian New Hebrides missions was in the realm of objects. Christian Protestant missionaries believed that religious conversion had to be accompanied by changes in the material conditions of everyday life. Results of field archaeology and museum research on Tanna and Erromango, southern Vanuatu, show that the process of material transformation was not unidirectional. Just as Melanesian people changed religious beliefs and integrated some imported objects into everyday life, missionaries integrated local elements into their daily lives. Attempts to produce ‘civilised Christian natives’, or to change some elements of native life relating purely to ‘religion’ but not others, resulted instead in a proliferation of ‘hybrid’ forms. This is visible in the continuity of a variety of traditional practices subsumed under the umbrella term ‘kastom’ through to the present alongside Christianity. Melanesians didn’t become Christian, Christianity became Melanesian. The material basis of religious change was integral to this process.
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760460753
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Religious change is at its core a material as much as a spiritual process. Beliefs related to intangible spirits, ghosts, or gods were enacted through material relationships between people, places, and objects. The archaeology of mission sites from Tanna and Erromango islands, southern Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides), offer an informative case study for understanding the material dimensions of religious change. One of the primary ways that cultural difference was thrown into relief in the Presbyterian New Hebrides missions was in the realm of objects. Christian Protestant missionaries believed that religious conversion had to be accompanied by changes in the material conditions of everyday life. Results of field archaeology and museum research on Tanna and Erromango, southern Vanuatu, show that the process of material transformation was not unidirectional. Just as Melanesian people changed religious beliefs and integrated some imported objects into everyday life, missionaries integrated local elements into their daily lives. Attempts to produce ‘civilised Christian natives’, or to change some elements of native life relating purely to ‘religion’ but not others, resulted instead in a proliferation of ‘hybrid’ forms. This is visible in the continuity of a variety of traditional practices subsumed under the umbrella term ‘kastom’ through to the present alongside Christianity. Melanesians didn’t become Christian, Christianity became Melanesian. The material basis of religious change was integral to this process.
Weavers of Song
Author: Mervyn McLean
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 9781869402129
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This work is a study of Polynesian music illustrated by music examples and photographs.
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 9781869402129
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This work is a study of Polynesian music illustrated by music examples and photographs.
The Politics of Land in Vanuatu
Author: Howard Van Trease
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820200043
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820200043
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Musical Islands
Author: Katelyn Barney
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443810495
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
The island is a powerful metaphor in everyday speech which extends almost naturally into several academic disciplines, including musicology. Islands are imagined as isolated and unique places where strange, exotic, different and unexpected treasures can be found by daring adventurers. The magic inherent within this positioning of islands as places of discovery is an aspect which permeates the theoretical, methodological and analytical boundaries of this edited book. Showcasing the breadth of current musicological research in Australia and New Zealand, this edited collection offers a range of subtle and innovative reflections on this concept both in established and well-charted territories of music research.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443810495
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
The island is a powerful metaphor in everyday speech which extends almost naturally into several academic disciplines, including musicology. Islands are imagined as isolated and unique places where strange, exotic, different and unexpected treasures can be found by daring adventurers. The magic inherent within this positioning of islands as places of discovery is an aspect which permeates the theoretical, methodological and analytical boundaries of this edited book. Showcasing the breadth of current musicological research in Australia and New Zealand, this edited collection offers a range of subtle and innovative reflections on this concept both in established and well-charted territories of music research.
Polynesian Languages
Author: Viktor Krupa
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110899280
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Polynesian Languages".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110899280
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Polynesian Languages".
The Archaeology of Portable Art
Author: Michelle Langley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315299097
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The development of complex cultural behaviour in our own species is perhaps the most significant research issue in modern archaeology. Until recently, it was believed that our capacity for language and art only developed after some of our ancestors reached Europe around 40,000 years ago. Archaeological discoveries in Africa now show that modern humans were practicing symbolic behaviours prior to their dispersal from that continent, and more recent discoveries in Indonesia and Australia are once again challenging ideas about human cultural development. Despite these significant discoveries and exciting potentials, there is a curious absence of published information about Asia-Pacific region, and consequently, global narratives of our most celebrated cognitive accomplishment — art — has consistently underrepresented the contribution of Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. This volume provides the first outline of what this region has to offer to the world of art in archaeology. Readers undertaking tertiary archaeology courses interested in the art of the Asia-Pacific region or human behavioural evolution, along with anyone who is fascinated by the development of our modern ability to decorate ourselves and our world, should find this book a good addition to their library.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315299097
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The development of complex cultural behaviour in our own species is perhaps the most significant research issue in modern archaeology. Until recently, it was believed that our capacity for language and art only developed after some of our ancestors reached Europe around 40,000 years ago. Archaeological discoveries in Africa now show that modern humans were practicing symbolic behaviours prior to their dispersal from that continent, and more recent discoveries in Indonesia and Australia are once again challenging ideas about human cultural development. Despite these significant discoveries and exciting potentials, there is a curious absence of published information about Asia-Pacific region, and consequently, global narratives of our most celebrated cognitive accomplishment — art — has consistently underrepresented the contribution of Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. This volume provides the first outline of what this region has to offer to the world of art in archaeology. Readers undertaking tertiary archaeology courses interested in the art of the Asia-Pacific region or human behavioural evolution, along with anyone who is fascinated by the development of our modern ability to decorate ourselves and our world, should find this book a good addition to their library.
Language
Author: George Melville Bolling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.
The Journal of the Polynesian Society
Author: Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Hgorofutuna
Author: Allan Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description