Table of Contents

Beginnings; landscapes - possession and dispossession; objects - indigenous signs in colonial design; artworks - indigenous signs in colonial art; presences - indigenous landscapes, artworks and exhibitions; hierarchies - from traditional to contemporary; situations - indigenous art in public culture; identities - diasporas, nations and transactions; endings.

Promotional Information

Nicholas Thomas is the author of "Oceanic Art", published by Thames and Hudson in the "World of Art" series

About the Author

Nicholas Thomas is the author of the Wolfson History Prize-winning Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire, and numerous books on art and cross-cultural encounter. He is Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge, and also Professor of Historical Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.