The things we value
Subtitle: culture and history in Solomon Islands
By: edited by Ben Burt and Lissant Bolton
Contributors: British Museum; Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain); Universitetet i Bergen. Bergen Pacific Studies Research Group
Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Canon Pyon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781907774218
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Solomon Islanders; Congresses; History; Social life and customs; Cultural property; Material culture; Solomon Islands Art; Wood-carving; Ethnology; Ethnologie; Kunst; Sachkultur; Antiquities
Other titles: Culture and history in Solomon Islands
Notes: "The book derives from the Melanesian Art project of the British Museum and the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council 2005-10. This project brought most of the authors together in 2006 for a research programme and conference at the British Museum on 'Art and History in the Solomon Islands'"--Title page verso.

"The publication of this volume, as well as the British Museum conference, was supported by the Bergen Pacific Studies Research Group, University of Bergen, Norway"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-145) and index.

Supported by Research Council of Norway Grant no. 185646
Table of contents: title: Solomon Islands artefact traditions and their historical transformation / Ben Burt and Lissant Bolton; title: Santa Cruz feather-money / Salome Samou; title: Kesa and other shell valuables from Choiseul / Rhys Richards; title: Shell valuables and history in Roviana and Vella Lavella / Peter J. Sheppard and Richard Walter; title: Traditional money and artefacts in Malaita / Michael Kwa'ioloa; title: Bata : the adaptable shell-money of Langalanga, Malaita / Pei-yi Guo; title: Clan valuables of Guadalcanal / Jackson Gege; title: Collecting Makira : Kakamora stones, shrine stones and the grounds for things in Arosi / Michael Scott; title: Some family treasures of Santa Isabel / Evelyn Tetehu; title: Regenerating local arts at the Kwaio Cultural Centre / David Akin; title: War canoes of the western Solomons / Edvard Hviding; title: The trade in wood carvings from Aorigi, Makira / Sandra Revolon; title: Artistic Bellona in the contemporary art of Solomon Islands / Jari Kupiainen.