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Acclimatising to higher ground
The realities of life of a Pacific Atoll People
Paperback || Keith Dixon || Sidestone Press
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern! This book presents a multidisciplinary, retrospective analysis of a Pacific Atoll People living in several countries but held together as a diaspora through notions of kinship.
The People have ancestral, cultural, social and continuing residential c...
maandag verzonden
Ikat from Timor and its outer Islands
Insular and Interwoven
2022 || Hardcover || Peter ten Hoopen || Sidestone Press Dissertations
This is the first study to focus on ikat of the Timor region from a technical perspective, including microscopy and design analysis of asymmetry, an understudied subject. Paradoxically this technical perspective highlights the human factor. Focused on the last century of the colonial period, we see the weaver’s decisions in close-up, as if we are sitting next to her. This yields rich insights, not just in materiality, but also in the weavers’ creativity.
Asymmetry is widely distributed in...
maandag verzonden
Ikat from Timor and its outer Islands
Insular and Interwoven
2022 || Paperback || Peter ten Hoopen || Sidestone Press Dissertations
This is the first study to focus on ikat of the Timor region from a technical perspective, including microscopy and design analysis of asymmetry, an understudied subject. Paradoxically this technical perspective highlights the human factor. Focused on the last century of the colonial period, we see the weaver’s decisions in close-up, as if we are sitting next to her. This yields rich insights, not just in materiality, but also in the weavers’ creativity.
Asymmetry is widely distributed in...
maandag verzonden
Acclimatising to higher ground
The realities of life of a Pacific Atoll People
Hardcover || Keith Dixon || Sidestone Press
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern! This book presents a multidisciplinary, retrospective analysis of a Pacific Atoll People living in several countries but held together as a diaspora through notions of kinship.
The People have ancestral, cultural, social and continuing residential c...