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Article: Protection, Power, and Display: Shields of Island Southeast Asia and Melanesia.
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- The Contemporary Pacific
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Protection, Power and Display: Shields of Island Southeast Asia and, Melanesia, edited by Andrew Tavarelli. Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College Museum of Art, 1995. ISBN 0-9640153-3-1, 108 pages, color plates, photographs, figures, maps, references. Paper, US$12.95.
The publication of two books with the same title, in the same year, that are poles apart in their presentation, demonstrates some of the general conceptual issues in relating art and culture, and the problems of interpretation that trouble our understanding of the art of other cultural worlds. Both books are intended as broad regional surveys designed for very wide readerships. A third volume under review ...