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In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing an art without a history. No-one, it went on, has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing. Until now. Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an un...

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Inuit art, both ancient and contemporary, has inspired the interest of scholars, collectors and art lovers around the globe. This book examines Inuit art from prehistory to the present with special attention to methodology and aesthetics, explorin...

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Evidence that Neanderthals caught birds and used their feathers for decoration, along with recent discoveries of Neanderthal cave art, are challenging our preconceptions of the cognitive gap between Neanderthals and modern humans. Clive Finlayson ...

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Drawing attention to the ways in which creative practices are essential to the health, well-being, and healing of Indigenous peoples, The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being addresses the effects of artistic endeavour on the good life, or min...

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A photographic and narrative celebration of contemporary Native American life, cultures, and issues by a celebrated Indigenous photographer and storyteller. In 2012, Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and set out on a Kickstart...

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The Barnes Foundations historic Pueblo and Navajo collections are explored alongside works by contemporary Native American artists This richly illustrated book makes the Barnes Foundations exceptional collection of Native American art from the Sou...

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A showstopping monograph on Iwantja Arts, home to Australia's most exciting contemporary Indigenous artists. Located on a small ridge at the edge of the Indulkana Ranges, approximately 575 kilometres south of Alice Springs, Iwantja Arts art centre...

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In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.' Until now.Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at ...

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In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing an art without a history. No-one, it went on, has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing. Until now. Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an un...

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This introduction to the art of tribal peoples of North America, Africa, and the South Pacific does not briefly cover the hundreds of artistic traditions in these three vast areas but rather studies in depth thirty-six art styles within all three ...

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The book provides what the author calls a 'skillbase' - a reliable set of practices and attitudes that can successfully produce bone carvings of great functional and aesthetic beauty.

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This volume explores the new paradigm of the Digital City as being simultaneously a past and a contemporary entity.

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The onset of digital archaeology and its subsequent remarkable development has had a crucial impact on the study of cultural heritage. Presently, researchers are able to manipulate and reinvent digital and historical data; the study of the city st...

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Written by leading experts in the field, The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases the latest advances in methods and theories of rock art research. This volume appeals to rock art, archaeology, and anthropology...

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Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capaci...

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Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capaci...

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The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface. Comprising thousands of islands and hundreds of cultural groups, Polynesia and Micronesia cover a large part of this vast ocean, from the dramatic mountains of Hawaii to the small, flat co...

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Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all exi...

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Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all exi...

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African-American art has made an increasingly vital contribution to the art of the United States from the time of its origins in early-eighteenth-century slave communities. This major reassessment of the subject discusses folk and decorative arts ...

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This exciting new investigation explores the rich variety of indigenous arts in the US and Canada from the early pre-contact period to the present day. It shows the importance of the visual arts in maintaining the integrity of spiritual, social, p...

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This concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5000 years of Indian art and architecture. A rich artistic tradition is fully explored through the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Colonial, and contemporary periods, incorporating discussion ...

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Including both traditional and contemporary arts, this book introduces the rich artistic traditions of the Pacific island chains of Polynesia and Micronesia, traditions that have had a considerable impact on western art in the twentieth century th...

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For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, m...

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This volume explores the new paradigm of the Digital City as being simultaneously a past and a contemporary entity.

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The onset of digital archaeology and its subsequent remarkable development has had a crucial impact on the study of cultural heritage. Presently, researchers are able to manipulate and reinvent digital and historical data; the study of the city st...

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In this book, author Martin Munro offers a new path into Caribbean studies based on sound. He argues that to understand and begin to transform the past, present, and future of Caribbean studies, historians must do so at the node of both sound and ...

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Seeing the Inside is the first detailed study of one of the world's great visual art traditions, the bark painting of Aboriginal artists in western Arnhem Land, Australia. Luke Taylor explains how their unique tradition has developed, and examines...

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This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is finely balanced between developing existing traditions and charting new problematics and approaches. Its geographical and cultural scope is wide, and it is highly ill...

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Evidence that Neanderthals caught birds and used their feathers for decoration, along with recent discoveries of Neanderthal cave art, are challenging our preconceptions of the cognitive gap between Neanderthals and modern humans. Clive Finlayson ...

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