TRANSLATING THINGS - CLOTHING & INNOVATION IN THE PACIFIC

Conference hosted by University College London, 23rd - 25th June 2003

Funded by the ESRC / Wenner Gren Foundation

List Of Paper Titles and Participants

Bolton, Lissant 'Dressing for transition: marriage, clothing and change in Vanuatu'

Colchester, Chloe 'Translating Things: Barkcloth Displays in Fiji and London'

Cory-Pearce, Elizabeth'Dress-sense: cultural logic in Maori performance dress'

D'Alleva, Anne 'Framing the 'ahu fara: Clothing, Gift-giving, and Painting in Tahiti'

Keane, Webb 'Materiality and the Social Analysis of Things'

Küchler, Susanne 'Clothing, imaging and innovation: a Pacific perspective'

Phillips, Ruth 'Dress and Address: First Nations Self Fashioning and the 1860 Royal Tour of Canada'

Sharrad, Paul 'Translations: Textiles and Texts in modernising PNG'

Strathern, Marilyn 'Emblems, Ornaments and Inversions of Value'

Taouma, Lisa 'Doubleness of meaning - Pasifika clothing, camp and couture'

Thomas, Nicholas 'Niuean hiapo, 1860 - 1890'

Were, Graeme 'Pattern, efficacy and enterprise: on printed calico in Melanesia'

Wolff, Bente 'Uniforms for all - dressing modern in Papua'

Other speakers and discussants include

Vilsoni Hereniko, Shigeyuki Kihara, Danny Miller, Michael O'Hanlon, Ruth Phillips, Chris Pinney, Sofia Tekela and Marilyn Strathern.

Registration by email to clothingthepacific@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk. Fee of £10 (£5 students) payable at conference.

Conference reception and meal

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