{"product_id":"9781877372452-vastly-ingenious","title":"Vastly Ingenious: The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBringing together a group of scholars of Pacific archaeology, this work is designed as both an up-to-date and wide-ranging survey and as a festschrift for museum archaeologist Janet Davidson, until recently based at The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.\u003cbr\u003eReflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vastly ingenious.' Hence the title of this book on Pacific material culture, past and present, with broad themes of origins, the movement of peoples and the development of their technologies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41084555755617,"sku":"9781877372452","price":32.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28710633.jpg?v=1722845478","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781877372452-vastly-ingenious","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}