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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Moderate shelf-wear. Free of any markings. Condition Considered in Pricing For Additional Information or pictures, Please Inquire.
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Being Aboriginal Comments, Observations, and Stories from Aboriginal Australians
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Glossy covers, solid binding. Minimal wear. Clean unmarked pages. ; 8.25 X 5.25 X 0.25 inches; 121 pages.
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Add to basketCondition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Edition 2006. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Edition 2006. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
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Being Aboriginal: Comments, Observations and Stories from Aboriginal Australians
Language: English
Published by Sydney; ABC; 1992 reprint, 1990
ISBN 10: 0733300235 ISBN 13: 9780733300233
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paperback in good condition, owner's name on first page; 121 pages.
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Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, US, 2025
ISBN 10: 1793611386 ISBN 13: 9781793611383
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: New. The Kwoma, the subject of this book, are one of a number of peoples in the Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea who have created some of the most distinctive visual art in the Pacific. Through case studies of their painting, sculpture, architecture and ritual this book examines in detail how people in this society understand their art as a cultural phenomenon. This includes how they understand its origins in the spirit world, how they judge quality in art and how they understand artistic creativity. The book contrasts Kwoma beliefs with the radically different approach to art found in the modern West. The modern Western concept of art first emerged not in the eighteenth century in the Enlightenment, or even later, as anthropologists and art historians often assume, but several centuries earlier in the Renaissance. The book gives an account of radical changes that took place culturally in Europe between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries in the way human intellectual creativity was understood, and how this gave rise to a new concept of art, one that remains unchanged in the modern West today.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Brand New. Inklink (illustrator). 31 pages. 11.75x10.25x0.40 inches. In Stock.
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The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik (Paperback or Softback)
Language: English
Published by Sean Kingston Publishing 3/7/2025, 2025
ISBN 10: 1912385651 ISBN 13: 9781912385652
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Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society: The Kwoma in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society : The Kwoma in Cross-cultural Perspective
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Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society : The Kwoma in Cross-cultural Perspective
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The Yalaku
Language: English
Published by Sean Kingston Publishing, GB, 2025
ISBN 10: 1912385651 ISBN 13: 9781912385652
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: New. This ground-breaking and beautifully illustrated ethnography of the Kaunga-speaking Yalaku provides the first detailed history of any of the 200 language groups in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The story of this society, recorded by Ross Bowden at their request, is told by the people themselves, and contains by far the most complete account of traditional warfare in this region. The history begins around 1800, the limit of Yalaku cultural memory. It describes the flashpoints that ignited tribal fighting (from the theft of a hunting dog to accusations of sorcery), the strategic thinking of warriors, the use of alliances, the building of structural defences, and even the actual blows of notable battles. It includes songs recounting the reversals of fortunes a warrior can experience and the laments of women over their loved ones, relaying the perspectives of both war parties and attacked communities. This gripping narrative, performed in a men's house with both men and women present, is both a feat of memory and a communal endeavour. Bowden's deft ethnographic analyses of the social structure and myths of the Yalaku provide the essential context to understand this society once locked into warfare with their neighbours, adversaries who knew each other's names, spoke each other's languages, intermarried, and during peacetime took part together in rituals at which their shared history was sung.
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Yena. Art and Ceremony in a Sepik Society.
Language: English
Published by Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford., Oxford., 1983
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. pp.xii+179. 24.5cm. 32 black and white photographic illustrations. Figures. Map. Bibliography. Index. Soft covers. Very good copy.
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Brand New. 182 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. In Stock.
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The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik
Language: English
Published by Sean Kingston Publishing, 2025
ISBN 10: 1912385651 ISBN 13: 9781912385652
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Moderate edge wear on covers. Otherwise in very good condition.
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YENA Art and Ceremony in a Sepik Society
Language: English
Published by Pitt Rivers Museum University of Oxford, Oxford, 1983
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Add to basketPaperBack. Condition: Good. Light brown cover with photo of indiginous man standing next to large decorative 'yena' figure. Sixteen double-sided photo plates, illustrations, tables and a map. Some faint pencil marks in margins. Page ends slightly discoloured. 179 pages.
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YENA: ART AND CEREMONY IN A SEPIK SOCIETY.
Language: English
Published by Pitt Rivers Museum,, Oxford,, 1983
ISBN 10: 0902793160 ISBN 13: 9780902793163
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition. Large 8vo. Large format paperback. ISBN: 0902793160 Pages: 180 Loosely inserted typed signed letter from the author at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the primitive art collector Philip Goldman whose embossed stamp is on the endpaper. Discusses a work by Deborah Gewertz and PG's own collection and a work he was writing on Kwoma bark painting. About 300 words from May 1989. About fine.
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Yena. Art and Ceremony in a Sepik Society, Pitt Rivers Museum Monograph no. 3
Published by Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford,, 1983., 1983
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Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society: The Kwoma in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, US, 2025
ISBN 10: 1793611386 ISBN 13: 9781793611383
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: New. The Kwoma, the subject of this book, are one of a number of peoples in the Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea who have created some of the most distinctive visual art in the Pacific. Through case studies of their painting, sculpture, architecture and ritual this book examines in detail how people in this society understand their art as a cultural phenomenon. This includes how they understand its origins in the spirit world, how they judge quality in art and how they understand artistic creativity. The book contrasts Kwoma beliefs with the radically different approach to art found in the modern West. The modern Western concept of art first emerged not in the eighteenth century in the Enlightenment, or even later, as anthropologists and art historians often assume, but several centuries earlier in the Renaissance. The book gives an account of radical changes that took place culturally in Europe between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries in the way human intellectual creativity was understood, and how this gave rise to a new concept of art, one that remains unchanged in the modern West today.
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Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society: The Kwoma in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society : The Kwoma in Cross-cultural Perspective
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The Yalaku
Language: English
Published by Sean Kingston Publishing, GB, 2025
ISBN 10: 1912385651 ISBN 13: 9781912385652
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: New. This ground-breaking and beautifully illustrated ethnography of the Kaunga-speaking Yalaku provides the first detailed history of any of the 200 language groups in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The story of this society, recorded by Ross Bowden at their request, is told by the people themselves, and contains by far the most complete account of traditional warfare in this region. The history begins around 1800, the limit of Yalaku cultural memory. It describes the flashpoints that ignited tribal fighting (from the theft of a hunting dog to accusations of sorcery), the strategic thinking of warriors, the use of alliances, the building of structural defences, and even the actual blows of notable battles. It includes songs recounting the reversals of fortunes a warrior can experience and the laments of women over their loved ones, relaying the perspectives of both war parties and attacked communities. This gripping narrative, performed in a men's house with both men and women present, is both a feat of memory and a communal endeavour. Bowden's deft ethnographic analyses of the social structure and myths of the Yalaku provide the essential context to understand this society once locked into warfare with their neighbours, adversaries who knew each other's names, spoke each other's languages, intermarried, and during peacetime took part together in rituals at which their shared history was sung.
