PACIFIC 308
Special Topic: Topics in Pacific Arts
Please note: this is archived course information from 2024 for PACIFIC 308.
Description
A survey of traditional Pacific art forms focusing specifically on their histories, significance and sociocultural functioning within contemporary Pacific diasporas.
Art forms covered in this course include Pacific architecture, body adornment, tapa (barkcloth), tivaevae (quilt-making), tatau (tattoo) and weaponry. This course will look at these art forms as part of dynamic living cultures within an ever changing, ever global Pacific.
Issues addressed in this course include gender, power, ritual and the impact of new technologies on notions of tradition.
Availability 2024
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Julia Gray
Points
PACIFIC 308: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points at Stage II
Restrictions
PACIFIC 207