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The Post-Impressionist artist and writer Paul Gauguin led an extraordinary, troubled and restlessly itinerant life; he came late to painting and spent most of his last decade in the Pacific islands of Tahiti and the Marquesas, where he produced paintings loosely based on Polynesian tradition that heralded the emergence of primitivism and would exert a profound influence on modernist artists from Picasso and Matisse to Jackson Pollock. But his art, despite its growing popularity following Gauguin's death in 1903, has provoked mixed responses: although some praise his knowledge and understanding of the Polynesian world, others are censorious, regarding elements of his work as expressions of racism, misogyny and colonial sexual exploitation, which he is seen both to have engaged in and validated through his art.In this generously illustrated life of Gauguin, Nicholas Thomas retells the artist's story for a twenty-first-century audience, giving greater consideration to the Pacific contexts of his experience, and to Pacific perspectives on his art and his legacy.

This book includes fast and simple recipes that will help you transform your bad eating habits into good ones to live healthier lives. No self-denial, no fasting, and no dangerous diets. You may start making yourself tasty, wholesome, and well-balanced meals right immediately. Even individuals who have never cooked before may easily follow the recipes.Don't wait another day to start making changes in your life; start now by resetting your eating patterns sensibly and healthily. This book won't compel you to make impractical sacrifices that would only last a short while, but it will practically assist you, day by day, to quickly acquire a new understanding of nutrition. You should once again feel good about yourself and try to make others happy.

Through photography, this book revisits the places museum collections were made, and the places they ended up in. It is a meditation on presence and absence.

From an award-winning scholar, the extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal'I would not be surprised if, after reading this masterpiece, many readers are compelled to take up voyaging themselves' Science MagazineThousands of islands, inhabited by a multitude of different peoples, are scattered across the vastness of the Pacific. The first European explorers to visit Oceania, from the sixteenth century on, were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving so many miles from the nearest continents. Who were these people? Where did they come from? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such immense tracts of ocean?In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas. From the third millennium BC, the Philippines, Indonesia, Micronesia and Melanesia were settled by Austronesian peoples of the western Pacific littoral. Later movements of Polynesian peoples took them even further afield, as far as Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Easter Island and - eventually - New Zealand, up to AD 1250.Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from linguistics, archaeology, and the re-enactment of voyages, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the sea-going technologies that enabled them, and the societies that they left in their wake.

Addresses one of the biggest challenges a hospitality manager faces: finding and retaining great employees. This text provides "real world" examples through vignettes from industry practitioners and members of the academic community who teach and research HR.

A timely reexamination of European engagements with Indigenous art--and the presence of Indigenous art in the contemporary art world.

A collection of essays that explores the historicisation of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. It describes how outsiders and islanders alike have constructed indigenous cultures over the last two hundred years.

The voyages of Captain Cook are endlessly fascinating to a wide audience, and no aspect of them has been more controversial than Cook's death. This book contains introductory essays that discuss Samwell's contribution to our understanding of the dramatic period in Pacific and maritime history, and examines the personality and career of Samwell.

Provides a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting separate sets of letters by two late nineteenth-century British colonists addressed mostly to the colonists' mothers. This book includes commentary that explores colonial degeneration in the South Pacific.

Over the last twenty years museums have proliferated, attracting new audiences and assuming new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity offers a fresh perspective on museums and what they may now be good for.

The latest title in Thames & Hudson's World of Art series surveys the extraordinary diversity and creativity of global body art, past and present.

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.

Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. This title reveals that there was gain as well as loss, survival as well as suffering, and invention as well as exploitation.

A collection of essays which focuses upon local perceptions of the state, efforts to ground nationhood in tradition, the character of national narratives and recent transformations of the Pacific nationalism. Case studies are included from Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa and the Cook Islands.