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The Things We Value: Culture and History in Solomon Islands

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The Things We Value: Culture and History in Solomon Islands

$135.00
$131.86
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The Things We Value takes as its subject the creativity and cultural heritage of Solomon Islands, focusing on the kinds of objects produced and valued by local communities across this diverse country in the south-west Pacific. Combining historical and interpretive analyses with personal memories and extensive illustrations, the contributors examine such distinctive forms as red feather-money, shell valuables, body ornaments, war canoes, ancestral stones and wood carvings. Their essays discuss the materials, designs, manufacture, properties and meanings of artefacts from across the country. Solomon Islanders value these things variously as currency, heirlooms and commodities, for their beauty, power and sanctity, and as bearers of the historical identities and relationships which sustain them in a rapidly changing world. The volume brings together indigenous experts and leading international scholars as authors of the most geographically comprehensive anthology of Solomon Islands ethnography yet published. It engages with historical and contemporary issues from a range of perspectives, anthropological and archaeological, communal and personal, and makes a major new contribution to Pacific Islands studies.


Author: Ben Burt
Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing
Publication Date: Jan 31, 2014
Number of Pages: 156 pages
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10: 1907774211
ISBN-13: 9781907774218
 

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