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An Anthropology of the Yearning for Authenticity
This book is about the yearning for authenticity via art and exoticism. Exoticism related to art cannot be reduced to primitivism alone and also encom...
Tongan Culture, Agriculture, and the Perenniality of the Gift
Identity and Development presents a remarkable record of Tonga s increasing participation in the modern global economy, and provides anthropologists, ...
Political Power and Divine Inspiration in Polynesia
This book explores the role of mana in past and present configurations of chiefly power in the Pacific. Chiefs are often seen as transitional figures ...
Islanders of the South is an ethnography of the kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific. This is the first book to examine the interplay of Polynesian a...
Practices, Markets, and Collectors
"Drawing on the exciting developments that have occurred in the anthropology of art over the last twenty years, this study uses ethnographic methods t...
An Anthropology of Donations
Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implica...
Towards an Anthropology of Collecting
What is the cultural phenomenon of collecting all about? What moves the collector? Discussed are both elitist cultural objects and non-elitist such a ...