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Animals into Art by Howard Morphy
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.34This book is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the... -
Human Adaptation Howard Morphy 9781859739587
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28This book examines the concept of adaptation in four major fields in the human sciences. Genetic aspects are first considered through an examination of the human genes which have so far been... -
The Anthropology of Art: A Reader by Howard Morphy 9781405105613
RRP: £115.95Booksplease Price: £108.59This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth... -
Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value by Howard Morphy 9780367644574
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value focuses on the ways in which museums and the use of their collections have contributed to, and continue to be engaged with, value creation processes... -
The Anthropology of Art: A Reader Howard Morphy (Australian National University) 9781405105620
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £38.76This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth... -
Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories Howard Morphy 9781845206574
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Thirty years ago Australian Aboriginal art was little more than a footnote to world art. Today, it is considered to be an important contemporary art movement, often promoted as being connected to a... -
Ancestral Connections: Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge by Howard Morphy 9780226538662
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £42.62Ancestral Connections unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark painting. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu-an Aboriginal people of Northeast Arnhem Land-and... -
Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols: Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities Howard Morphy 9781138565593
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums' responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinite future while also tackling contentious issues of... -
Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols: Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities Howard Morphy (Australian National University, USA) 9781032087139
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums' responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinite future while also tackling contentious issues of... -
Aboriginal Art by Jacques Guiod 9780714837529
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.41For thousands of years, Australian Aborigines have been making art. A manifestation of the creative forces of Dreamtime, art is also a fundamental means of expressing individual and group identity... -
On Prayer: Text and Commentary by Marcel Mauss 9781571816337
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £21.16"There is much of interest in this well-presented volume. Mauss's careful discussion of differences among types of oral rites - incantations, spells, invocations - remains instructive." * ... -
Understanding Social Images: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Visual Anthropology by Marcus Banks 9781836950066
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16Marcus Banks was one of the scholars who changed the way visual anthropology and visual methods were regarded in social and cultural anthropology. This collection of Banks’ essays considers the role... -
Aboriginal Religions in Australia: An Anthology of Recent Writings Francoise Dussart 9781138264762
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Over the last 25 years there has been an explosion of interest in the Aboriginal religions of Australia and this anthology provides a variety of recent writings, by a wide range of scholars... -
The Art of Kula Shirley F. Campbell 9781859735183
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Nearly a century ago, it was predicted that Kula, the exchange of shell valuables in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea, would disappear. Not only has this prophecy failed to come true, but today... -
Museum Materialities: Objects, Engagements, Interpretations by Sandra Dudley 9780415492188
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects... -
Exhibition Experiments Sharon Macdonald (University of Manchester) 9781405130776
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £35.41Exhibition Experiments is a lively collection that considers experiments with museological form that challenge our understanding of - and experience with - museums. Explores examples of museum... -
Rhetorics of Value: Exhibition Design and Communication in Museums and Beyond Corinne A. Kratz 9781478028390
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.32In Rhetorics of Value, Corinne A. Kratz explores how exhibition design creates and conveys values that have the potential to touch, educate, and engage visitors. Drawing on case studies from the... -
Exhibition Experiments by Sharon Macdonald 9781405130769
RRP: £91.95Booksplease Price: £81.19Exhibition Experiments is a lively collection that considers experiments with museological form that challenge our understanding of - and experience with - museums. Explores examples of museum... -
Rhetorics of Value: Exhibition Design and Communication in Museums and Beyond Corinne A. Kratz 9781478030652
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In Rhetorics of Value, Corinne A. Kratz explores how exhibition design creates and conveys values that have the potential to touch, educate, and engage visitors. Drawing on case studies from the... -
Aboriginal Art, Identity and Appropriation by Elizabeth Burns Coleman 9781138252622
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £51.59The belief held by Aboriginal people that their art is ultimately related to their identity, and to the continued existence of their culture, has made the protection of indigenous peoples' art a... -
New History of Anthropology Henrika Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania) 9780631226000
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £40.81A New History of Anthropology collects original writings from pre-eminent scholars to create a sophisticated but accessible guide to the development of the field. Re-examines the history of... -
Ceremony Men: Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection by Jason Gibson 9781438478548
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.92Rethinks the role of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interactions in the production of ethnographic museum collections.Winner of the 2022 W.K. Hancock Prize presented by the Australian Historical... -
A Theory of Thrills, Sublime and Epiphany in Literature by Nigel Fabb 9781839984792
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09This book offers a psychological account of thrills (goosebumps and tears), of the epiphanic experience of seeing ordinary things in a profoundly new way, and of the experience of the sublime. The... -
A Theory of Thrills, Sublime and Epiphany in Literature Nigel Fabb 9781839994159
Booksplease Price: £25.71This book offers a psychological account of thrills (goosebumps and tears), of the epiphanic experience of seeing ordinary things in a profoundly new way, and of the experience of the sublime. The... -
Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations by Ivan Karp
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Museum Frictions is the third volume in a bestselling series on culture, society, and museums. The first two volumes in the series, Exhibiting Cultures and Museums and Communities, have become... -
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Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art by Fred R. Myers 9780822329329 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £10.40Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought... -
Divine Fertility: The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa Sada Mire 9781032174853
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book uniquely explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. Furthermore, in highlighting the diversity in pre-Christian, pre-Islamic regional...