Melanesia: Art and Encounter

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Lissant Bolton, Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek, Julie Ann Adams, Ben Burt
British Museum Press, 2013 - Art - 362 pages
The British Museums uniquely important Melanesian collection is pre-eminent among early collections, and the 20,000 items it comprises are core to understanding the cultures of the western Pacific.

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About the author (2013)

Lissant Bolton is Keeper, Africa, Oceania and the Americas, British Museum. Nicholas Thomas is Professor of Historical Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Among his previous books are Oceanic Art in the World of Art series and Islanders: the Pacific in the Age of Empire, which won the Wolfson History Prize in 2010.

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