Author(s): Sean Mallon

The Arts | Secondhand

Secondhand.

Longlist, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Non-Fiction: Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture Section) Samoa is one of the most written about and discussed island groups in Polynesia and its history and culture have for many years attracted the attention of travellers, anthropologists and writers. Yet much of this knowledge about Samoa is hard to access, limited to academic journals, ethnographic books, specialist reports and a few social studies and short histories. A broad survey of the Samoan arts has not been published since the 1930s. In Samoan Art and Artists Sean Mallon presents a contemporary survey of the Samoan arts, drawing on the considerable research base that exists, and reintroducing this information in a refreshing and accessible text with extensive illlustrations.

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