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Uncovering Pacific pasts: histories of archaeology in Oceania / edited by Hilary Howes, Tristen Jones and Matthew Spriggs

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pacific seriesPublisher: Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (xxxvi, 562 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760464875
  • 1760464872
  • 9781760464868
  • 1760464864
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Uncovering Pacific pasts:LOC classification:
  • CC101.O3
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Contents:
Part 1: Early European exploration in the Pacific, 1500s - 1870s -- Part 2: The first archaeological excavations, 1870s - 1910s -- Part 3: The burgeoning field of anthropology and archaeology, 1918-45 -- Part 4: Archaeology as a profession in the Pacific, 1945 - present.
Subject: Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020, sought to bring together both notable and relatively unknown Pacific material culture and archival collections from around the globe, displaying them simultaneously in their home institutions and linked online at www.uncoveringpacificpasts.org. Thirty-eight collecting institutions participated in UPP, including major collecting institutions in the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the Americas, as well as collecting institutions from across the Pacific.
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Part 1: Early European exploration in the Pacific, 1500s - 1870s -- Part 2: The first archaeological excavations, 1870s - 1910s -- Part 3: The burgeoning field of anthropology and archaeology, 1918-45 -- Part 4: Archaeology as a profession in the Pacific, 1945 - present.

Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020, sought to bring together both notable and relatively unknown Pacific material culture and archival collections from around the globe, displaying them simultaneously in their home institutions and linked online at www.uncoveringpacificpasts.org. Thirty-eight collecting institutions participated in UPP, including major collecting institutions in the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the Americas, as well as collecting institutions from across the Pacific.

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