Lovers and Others

Lovers and Others
Author: Tom Lowenstein
Publisher: Melbourne Books
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1925556719

This candidly written memoir, enlivened by the author's impish sense of humour, narrates the way in which, by chance and circumstance, Tom Lowenstein placed his career at the service of the Australian art world. The book describes Lowenstein's numerous David and Goliath battles with the Australian Government and the Australian Tax Office for a greater understanding and fairer treatment of the unique set of circumstances and numerous challenges faced by the country's creative sectors. Lowenstein's interactions with his colourful and gregarious clients took him frequently out of the comfort of the corporate environment into the artists' homes and studios. The personalities of Charles Blackman, Colin Lanceley, Margaret Olley, John Olsen, Garry Shead, Tim Storrier, and many other luminaries of the art world are vividly brought out with unique insights and unexpected angles. The book is richly illustrated with photographs from Lowenstein's personal archives documenting his long-standing friendships and reflecting its heady mixture of accounting, art, and wine.

Sensual Relations

Sensual Relations
Author: David Howes
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2010-02-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0472026224

With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual Relations contests the conventional exclusion of sensuality from intellectual inquiry and reclaims sensation as a fundamental domain of social theory. David Howes is Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

Of Canoes and Crocodiles

Of Canoes and Crocodiles
Author: Tony Robinson-Smith
Publisher: University of Alberta
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2024-08-22
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1772127515

Of Canoes and Crocodiles is a story of adventure in the remote and threatened landscapes of Papua New Guinea. In 2018, Tony Robinson-Smith and his wife Nadya Ladouceur bought dugout canoes and paddled down the Sepik, the country’s longest river. Traveling with local guides and staying in their villages, Tony and Nadya ate smoked piranha and sago pancakes, heard tales of river gods and sorcerers, marvelled at rainbow bee-eaters and cat-size flying foxes, sank in a tropical storm, got lost in mosquito-infested swamplands, and hid from pirates in mangroves near the sea. As the narrative follows the bends of the river, Robinson-Smith incorporates into its flow descriptions of crocodile initiation rites, village “big men,” the barter system, raskolism, and sing-sings. He reflects on clan loyalty, colonization, Christian missionaries, bride price, the environmental impacts of foreign logging and mining, and the joys and fears of following the current down a long, snaky waterway in a volatile Australasian country.

Hunting the Gatherers

Hunting the Gatherers
Author: Michael O'Hanlon
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0857456911

Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this volume. The contributors to this tightly-integrated volume take these collectors, and the collecting institutions, as the departure point for accounts that look back at the artefact-producing societies and their interaction with the collectors, but also forward to the fate of the collections in metropolitan museums, as the artefacts have been variously exhibited, neglected, re-conceived as indigenous heritage, or repatriated. In doing this, the contributors raise issues of current interest in anthropology, Pacific history, art history, museology, and material culture.

Sepik Diary

Sepik Diary
Author: Frank Hodgkinson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1984
Genre: Drawing, Australian
ISBN: 9780949361011

The Neglected War

The Neglected War
Author: Hermann Hiery
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780824816681

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Book Prices

Book Prices
Author: Edward N. Zempel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 618
Release: 1993
Genre: Books
ISBN: 9780930358105