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  • Body Art by Thomas, Nicholas
    Nicholas Thomas

    Body Art

    This informed and accessible book explores the wide-ranging history of body art, from its expression of tribal affinities and cultural identity to its role in theatricality, criminality, and beautifying the body, as well as its influence on contemporary artists.Seven thematic chapters explore the extraordinary...
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  • Double Vision: Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific by Thomas, Nicholas
    Nicholas Thomas

    Double Vision: Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific

    Taking as its departure point Bernard Smith's classic study, European Vision and the South Pacific (1960), Double Vision explores the ambivalences of European perceptions of the Pacific and juxtaposes them with the indigenous visual cultures that challenge Western assumptions about art and representation. Double...
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  • Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific by Thomas, Nicholas
    Nicholas Thomas

    Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific

    Entangled Objects threatens to dislodge the cornerstone of Western anthropology by rendering permanently problematic the idea of reciprocity. All traffic, and commerce, whether economic or intellectual, between Western anthropologists and the rest of the world, is predicated upon the possibility of establishing reciprocal relations...
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  • If the World Didn'T Suck We'D All Fall Off by Thomas, Nicholas
    Nicholas Thomas

    If the World Didn'T Suck We'D All Fall Off

    This is a deeply personal life story and situations that have made me the unique individual I am in life. These short poems touch on many parts of life that are disturbing and are hard to deal with. The only way to express them...
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  • Oceanic Art by Thomas, Nicholas
    Nicholas Thomas

    Oceanic Art

    The dazzling colors and patterns of the art of the Pacific Islands have long entranced Western audiences, including artists such as Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso. In Oceanic Art, Nicholas Thomas looks beyond the familiar, stunning surfaces of spears and shields, carved canoe prows...
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  • Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization by Thomas, Nicholas
    Nicholas Thomas

    Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization

    The arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native America famously inspired twentieth-century modernist artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Max Ernst. Was this a cross-cultural discovery to be celebrated? Or just one more example of Western colonial appropriation?What might a "decolonized" art history...
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  • Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture by Thomas, Nicholas
    Nicholas Thomas

    Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture

    Tribal art has been one of the greatest inspirations for twentieth-century Western artists. Picasso, Matisse, Ernst, and Brancusi responded in unforgettable ways to masks, sculpture, and other forms of indigenous African, Oceanic, and American art. The politics of this relationship have long been a...
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  • Shamanism, History, and the State by Thomas, Nicholas
    Nicholas Thomas

    Shamanism, History, and the State

    The literature on shamanism and related topics is extensive, but has in general been biased toward curing and trance; the political and historical significance of shamanic activities has been largely neglected. The contributors to Shamanism, History, and the State--distinguished anthropologists and historians from England,...
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  • The Mediterranean Diet Cook Book: Easy & Flavorful Mediterranean Diet Recipes. by Thomas, Nicholas
    Nicholas Thomas

    The Mediterranean Diet Cook Book: Easy & Flavorful Mediterranean Diet Recipes.

    This book includes fast and simple recipes that will help you transform your bad eating habits into good ones to live healthier lives. No self-denial, no fasting, and no dangerous diets. You may start making yourself tasty, wholesome, and well-balanced meals right immediately. Even...
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  • The Return of Curiosity: What Museums Are Good for in the 21st Century by Thomas, Nicholas
    Nicholas Thomas

    The Return of Curiosity: What Museums Are Good for in the 21st Century

    The Spy Museum, the Vacuum Cleaner Museum, the National Mustard Museum--not to mention the Art Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Getty Center: museums have never been more robust, curating just about everything there is and assuming a new prominence in public...
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  • Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Thomas, Nicholas
    Nicholas Thomas

    Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific

    An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.One of the Best Books of 2021 -- Wall Street JournalThe islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude...
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