Andy Mills
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andy Mills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andy |
| FAMILY NAME | Mills |
| SIGNATURE | MILLS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1739-1349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Engaging aesthetically with tapa barkcloth in the museum
Tapa barkcloth was a fabric replete with materialities of cultural and aesthetic values in 18th- and 19th-century Oceania. In the modern ethnographic museum, remote in time (and frequently space) from its origin, what remains to be appreciated cross-culturally? I think through a tripartite model here, in which certain aesthetic responses are taken as universal, others as shaped by cross-cultural materialities, and yet others as dependent upon the…
What's in a name: Reconstructing nomenclature of prestige and persuasion in late 18th-century Tongan material culture
This paper is a study in the productivity of working across the disciplinary boundaries of material culture studies, historical linguistics and museology to restore the significance of historic names and terminological classifications for prestigious Tongan objects within the wider context of Western Polynesia. The authors trace the nomenclature of radial feather headdresses (palā tavake) both within Tonga as well as through linguistic cognates f…
Bodies Permeable and Divine: Tapu, Mana and the Embodiment of Hegemony in Pre‐Christian Tonga
What's in a name: Reconstructing nomenclature of prestige and persuasion in late 18th-century Tongan material culture
This paper is a study in the productivity of working across the disciplinary boundaries of material culture studies, historical linguistics and museology to restore the significance of historic names and terminological classifications for prestigious Tongan objects within the wider context of Western Polynesia. The authors trace the nomenclature of radial feather headdresses (palā tavake) both within Tonga as well as through linguistic cognates f…
Bodies Permeable and Divine: Tapu, Mana and the Embodiment of Hegemony in Pre‐Christian Tonga
What's in a name: Reconstructing nomenclature of prestige and persuasion in late 18th-century Tongan material culture
This paper is a study in the productivity of working across the disciplinary boundaries of material culture studies, historical linguistics and museology to restore the significance of historic names and terminological classifications for prestigious Tongan objects within the wider context of Western Polynesia. The authors trace the nomenclature of radial feather headdresses (palā tavake) both within Tonga as well as through linguistic cognates f…
Engaging aesthetically with tapa barkcloth in the museum
Tapa barkcloth was a fabric replete with materialities of cultural and aesthetic values in 18th- and 19th-century Oceania. In the modern ethnographic museum, remote in time (and frequently space) from its origin, what remains to be appreciated cross-culturally? I think through a tripartite model here, in which certain aesthetic responses are taken as universal, others as shaped by cross-cultural materialities, and yet others as dependent upon the…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Context (archaeology) (1 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (1 works)