Author: Jane Mink RossenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Na Taungua O Mungiki
Author: Jane Mink RossenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Weavers of Song
Author: Mervyn McLeanPublisher: 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.
Perspectives in Motion
Author: Kendra StepputatPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800730039
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and performance studies. Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, this edited collection offers new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe.
Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific
Author: R. FeinbergPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000323552
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models.
Bellona Island Beliefs and Rituals
Author: Torben MonbergPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824811471
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"Monberg's account of the Bellonese religion is descriptive ethnography at its best. It is rich in detail, and the organization of the material gives a coherent view of Bellonese culture and society. While not a comparative study in itself, it provides an abundance of data that will be invaluable for other works that are more comparative in nature." -from the Editor's Note Pacific Islands Monograph Series No.9 Center for Pacific Islands Studies, UH
Music and Dance of Aboriginal Australia and the South Pacific
Author: International Council for Traditional Music. ColloquiumPublisher: Institute of Criminology, Sydney
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Papers on government and institutional policies on collecting, documenting and disseminating information relating to dance and music; papers on Aboriginal music by S. Wild, C.J. Ellis, A. Marett, M.J. Morais annotated separately.
Traditionalism and Modernity in the Music and Dance of Oceania
Author: Helen Reeves LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Tradition, Trade and Woodcarving in Solomon Islands
Author: Jari KupiainenPublisher: Left Coast Press
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Tradition, Trade, and Woodcarving in Solomon Islands is a fieldwork based anthropological study of woodcarving and the development of handicraft trade in the South Pacific archipelago. It explores the Melanesian culture of Gatokae from the Western Solomons and the Polynesian culture of Bellona from the southeastern Solomons alongside the multicultural national capitol Honiara where much of the handicraft trade concentrates. The book integrates historical anthropological methods with sociological, visual and artistic approaches to analyze the contemporary context of woodcarving art and trace. The highly original work in richly illustrated, and includes a digital photo archive on an accompanying CD-ROM.
Polynesian Music and Dance
Author: Richard M. MoylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
For Townsman and Peasant
Author: Jens Henrik KoudalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description