The Art of Clothing: A Pacific Experience is a collection of richly textured and tremendously engaging empirical studies of cloth and clothing in colonial and post-colonial Pacific contexts.

The Art of Clothing: A Pacific Experience is a collection of richly textured and tremendously engaging empirical studies of cloth and clothing in colonial and post-colonial Pacific contexts. By challenging readers to reconsider the very nature of the materiality of clothing, the editors productively situate this volume at the intersection of a number of ongoing interdisciplinary projects that are coalescing around an interest in cloth and clothing. The book as a whole speaks lucidly to issues of current concern in a wide range of academic fields - including cultural studies, material culture, Pacific history, art history, history of religions, and museum studies.

Art Innovation: A Pacific Perspective
Translating things: barkcloth displays in Fiji London
Framing the ahu fara: clothing, gift-giving and painting in Tahiti
Uniforms for all: dressing modern in Papua
Translations: Textiles and texts in modernising PNG
Dressing for Transition
marriage, clothing and change in Vanuatu. Material Translation: A Comparative Perspective on the Logic of Clothing
Materiality and the social analysis of things
Dress-sense
cultural logic in Maori performance dress
Niuean Hiapo, 1860-1890
The Land has eyes: reel performance real performance in Rotuma
Clothing and contemporary Pacific Art. Dress and Address: comparative perspectives on the art of clothing