Books written by Ben Burt
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The Museum of Mankind: Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department
They included old fashioned eastenders Bert Fry and Kenny Munns, who had several brothers working in the Heavy Gang at the British Museum, Arthur Watson from Jamaica and Matthew Charles from St Lucia. The masons had their own mess room ...
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Tradition and Christianity: The Colonial Transformation of a Solomon Islands Society
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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World Art: An Introduction to the Art in Artefacts
This book is essential reading for all students on anthropology of art courses as well as students of museum studies and art history, based on a wide range of case studies and supported by learning features such as annotated further reading ...
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Malaita: A Pictoria History from Solomon Islands
This book explores Malaita as it was represented to the wider world through photographs, artefacts, maps and drawings over a period of 150 years.
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Tradition and Christianity: The Colonial Transformation of a Solomon Islands Society
Christianity had a strong appeal to such people as an alternative religion of peace, “... a way that was quiet, without fear, without being afraid of people being killed”, as Ganifiri puts it. Insofar as the ghosts assisted and even ...
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Chiefs' Country: Leadership and Politics in Honiara, Soloman Islands
In this autobiographical account of life in Honiara, capital of Solomon Islands, Michael Kwa'ioloa reflects on the challenges of raising a family in town, managing marriage exchanges, and sustaining ties with a distant rural homeland in ...
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Living Tradition: A Changing Life in Solomon Islands
Living Tradition is the story of how his life changed as he came to terms with a world of contrasting cultures and values, combining family instruction and school, ancestral ghosts and born-again Christianity, shell money exchanges and work ...