Roderick Ewins, PhD. PUBLICATIONS.
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A. Art and Art Education publications
1981 Vanishing Landscape (Penny
Smith Ceramics). Adelaide,Festival Centre Gallery
1987 “Centre for the Arts”, Pottery
in Australia. Aug:60-61 (5 col.illustr.)
1988 Benjamin Sheppard [biography]
in Australian Dictionary of Biography v.11.
1991 (with E.Colless)
Igor Podolchak: Ukrainian Printmaker. Hobart,
Tasmanian School of Art (12p,6ill)
1993 “Establishing credibility for art research
within ‘old’ university communities and funding bodies”, Seni
3(3):50-55. Yogyakarta (Indonesia).
1994 “Art and the ARC: Surviving the flood,
and flowing round the obstacle”, Papers and Proceedings of Third National
Art Research Conference, Wollongong (http://www.justpacific.com/art/articles/arc~flow.pdf)
1994 “The pursuit of culture and other
forlorn endeavours” Online article (http://www.justpacific.com/art/articles/culture.pdf)
1998 “Social stress, art and community” in IMPRINT,
The Quarterly Journal of the Print Council of Australia, 33
(Summer):2-4 (http://www.justpacific.com/art/articles/art&community.pdf)
B. Anthropology publications
(a) Books/videos on Fijian art
1982a Fijian Artefacts:
the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery Collection. Hobart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.
2nd edtion, Extensively revised and expanded, due for publication in 2013, to be jointly published by the TMAG and the University of the South Pacific, Suva.
1982b Mat-weaving
in Gau, Fiji. Suva, Fiji Museum
1989 Kuro: Amele Nacewa, master potter
of Fiji (Video & DVD, co-production with Leigh Hobba).University of Tasmania*, Hobart,
1999 Ethnic Art and Ritual in the
Negotiation of Identity: the Social Role of Bark-cloth in Vatulele Island,
Fiji. Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of
Sociology & Social Work, University of Tasmania
2009 Staying
Fijian: Vatulele Island barkcloth and social identity. Adelaide (S.A.),
Crawford House Publishing Australia & Honolulu (HI), University of Hawaii
Press.
2014 (scheduled) [Working title-ms. in preparation] The material world of Old Fiji:
objects in Australian & New Zealand Collections.
(b) Book chapters and papers on the
anthropology of art
1980 "Traditional
Craft in Developing Countries: Living Fossil or Living Art?" Keynote
Address in First South Pacific Arts Conference Report. Suva, Fiji
Ministry of Education. pp.42-56
1987a "Lali: the
Drums of Fiji", Domodomo:
Fiji Museum Quarterly 4(4):42-169 (see also 1999, below)
1987b "Bark-cloth and the Origins
of Paper " in Conference Papers,1st
National Paper Conference. Hobart, Papermakers of Australia.pp.11-15
1987c Fijian Pottery [Exhibition cat.,
text, photography, design, 8 p.,9 b&w
illustrations, map) Hobart, University of Tasmania
1987d "A Fijian Potter at the University of
Tasmania" in Pottery in Australia. Aug. p.66-67 (1 col. illustration)
1995 "Proto-Polynesian art? The
Cliff Paintings of Vatulele, Fiji" in Journal of the
Polynesian Society 103(1): 23-74 [map, 14 figs, 17 photos]
1999 "The Acoustic
Properties of Fijian 'Slit-gongs'" in Art and Performance in
Oceania, Eds Barry Craig, Bernie Kernot and
Christopher Anderson. Bathurst (NSW): Crawford House Press, Chapter 17, pp.173-178 (see also 1987a,
above)
2000 "All Things
Bright and Beautiful, Or All Things Wise And Wonderful? Objects From Island
Oceania in The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery" in Pacific
Arts 15 & 16: 71-87
2001 “Fiji’s New
Western Confederacy” In Lal, Brij
Vatulele and Michael Pretes (eds):
Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji. Canberra, Pandanus
Press (Australian National University), Ch.19, pp.107-112 (originally published on JustPacific.com as an
online article). (Whole book available as free pdf download from http://epress.anu.edu.au/coup_citation.html)
2004 "Symmetry and semiotics: the case of Fijian
bark-cloth figuration" Chapter 9, Embedded symmetries, natural
and cultural (Amerind New World Studies Series). D.Washburn
(ed). Albuquerque (NM), University of New Mexico
Press. pp.161-183. Publisher's note.
2007 "The perils of
ethnographic provenance; the documentation of the Johnson Fiji collection in
the South Australian Museum." Chapter 3 IN Hunting the collectors;
Pacific collections in Australian museums, art galleries and archives,
Susan Cochrane and Max Quanchi (eds).
Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 33-67.
2010 "Dard Hunter and the 'bark-paper' of the Pacific: insights
into technical, technological, and cultural affinities." Chapter 4 IN Speaking
of paper…The Anita Lynn Forgach keynote speakers,
edited by Whitney S. Baker. Chillicothe (OH): Friends of Dard
Hunter, Inc. pp.39-57
2010 "Fijian Dress and Body Modifications," IN Vol.7,
Part 11, "Polynesia". Berg
Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Oxford (U.K.), Berg Fashion
Library, Ltd. pp.435-43
(c) Book reviews
1983 "Future
Directions in the Study of the Arts of Oceania" Judith Huntsman (ed). Mankind 4(2):141-2
1999 "The
Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of
Locality" James J.Fox. The Australian
Journal of Anthropology 10(1):104-5
2001a "The Maori and the Crown: An
indigenous people's struggle for self-determination" By Dora Alves.
Pacific Affairs 74(2): 292-293
2001b "Fiji before the storm:
elections and the politics of development" Brij
Lal (ed) Pacific Affairs
74(2): 298-299
2001c "Confronting Fiji futures"
Akram-Lodhi (ed) Pacific
Affairs 74(2): 300-302
2001d "Kie hingoa 'named
mats', 'Ie toga 'fine mats' and other treasured textiles of Samoa and
Tonga" (JPS Special Issue) Pacific Arts 23-24: 123-6
2002a "Living on the
fringe: Melanesians in Fiji." Winston Halapua.
Pacific Affairs 75(3): 501-2 Fall 2002
2002b. “The traditional
pottery of Papua New Guinea” May & Tuckson. Pacific
Arts 23-24: 129-31
2003 "Represented
communities: Fiji and world decolonization." John D. Kelly and Martha
Kaplan. Pacific Affairs 75(4): 654-5 January 2003
2004 “Samoan art &
artists: O Measina a Samoa." Sean
Mallon. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 2002. Pacific Affairs
77(2):384-5 July.
2005 “The method of hope:
anthropology, philosophy and Fijian knowledge." Hirozaku
Miyazaki. Stanford (CA): Stanford University Press. 2004. Pacific Affairs
78(2):336-7 July
2006 "After the Rush.
Regulation, Participation, and Chinese Communities in Australia
1860-1940." Edited by Sophie Couchman, John
Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor. Victoria (Australia): Otherland
Literary Journal (Special Issue No 9). 2004. Pacific Affairs 79(2)
July
2009 “Pacific Pattern” by Susanne Küchler & Graeme Were. London. Thames & Hudson,
2005. Museum Anthropology Review 3(2).
2010 "OCEANIA: Art
of the Pacific Islands in The Metropolitan Museum of Art." By Eric Kjellgren. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New
Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2007. Pacific Affairs. 83(1):
220-221 Spring, March 2010
2010 July "Collective creativity: Art
and society in the South Pacific," by Katherine Giuffre.
Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific Series, Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington,
2009. Anthropological Forum 20(2):176–178
2011 (900 word review)
"Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook’s Third Voyage", by
Eleanor C. Nordyke and James A. Mattison
Jr. Privately published, Distributed by University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu.
Second Edition, 2008. Museum Anthropology Review 5(1-2): 76-79.
(d) Consultancies
1999 Oct. FHWilliams Museum
of Papermaking (Atlanta GA, USA). Survey, photographing and cataloguing of Dard Hunter collection of Pacific bark-cloth.
2001 Sept-Oct. South Australian Museum, Adelaide.
Survey, photographing and detailed comment on collection of some 900 Fiji
items. http://www.justpacific.com/fiji/sam/index.html
2005 May-Sept. UNESCO: Evaluation of submission
to UNESCO by Uganda, for possible proclamation of Uganda traditional
barkcloth as a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of
Humanity”. R.Ewins produced 7,000 word report
recommending proclamation under specified conditions. Recommendation accepted
by UNESCO and proclamation duly made in Dec. 2005 .
2007 February. Victoria Museum, Melbourne. Survey,
Survey and detailed comment on collection of some 1,000 Fiji items.
2009 May. Australian Museum, Sydney. Survey. Survey
and detailed comment (in database form) on collection of Fiji material.
2009 September. Queensland Art Gallery. Consultation
on catalogue and didactic leaflet preparation for exhibition "Paperskin: Barkcloth across the Pacific", 31 Oct.09 —14 Feb.10 http://qag.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/80948/Paperskin_online_11.11.pdf
2011 May-June. Survey and detailed comment (in
database form) on collections of Fiji material in: Grassi
Museum, Leipzig; University Ethnology Museum, Göttingen;
Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Köln; Saffron Walden
Museum, Essex; National Museum of
Scotland, Edinburgh.
(e) Book Citations of published material of
R.Ewins (in Author alphabetical order)
Boissevain, J. ed. Coping with tourists: European
reactions to mass tourism. Providence RI: Berghahn
Books. 1996.
Bolton, Lissant. Unfolding
the moon: enacting women's kastom in Vanuatu.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 2003.
Carlier, Jean-Edouard. Archipels
Fidji-Tonga-Samoa: la Polynésie Occidentale.
Paris: Galerie Voyageurs & Curieux.
2005.
Clark, Kevin. Handcraft trade in the South Pacific:
A case study [Fiji and Samoa]. NZCTD Pacific
Handcraft Research Project,Report No.2.
Wellington: New Zealand Coalition for Trade and Development. 1984
Clunie, F. Yalo i Viti: a Fiji Museum Catalogue. Suva,
Fiji Museum, 1986
Crowe, D. & D.Nagy,
"Cakaudrove patterns". Colloquia Mathematica
Societatis János Bolyai, Szeged (Hungary) 63 (Intuitive Geometry):78-84, 1991
Crowe, D. & D.Nagy,
"Cakaudrove-style Masi Kesa of Fiji" in Ars Textrina 18
:119-155, 1992
Crowe, D.Symmetries
of culture. Online article http://members.tripod.com/vismath6/crowe1/
accessed March 20th 2002
Edmundson, Anna, and Chris Boylan Adorned: traditional jewellery
and body decoration from Australia and the Pacific [exhibition catalogue].
Sydney: Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. 1999
Femenías, Blenda. “In cloth we trust.” Reviews in Anthropology 39(4): 258-287. 2010
Franklin, Adrian. Tourism: an introduction.
London: Sage. 2003
Goldson, Barry,
Michael Lavalette, and Jim McKechnie.
Children, welfare and the state. London, Sage. 2003
Hooper, Steven. "Gatu vakaviti, the great barkcloths of Southern Lau, Fiji." IN D. Smidt, P. ter Keurs
and A. Trouwborst (eds). Pacific
material culture: essays in honour of Dr Simon Kooijman on the occasion of his 80th birthday
(Bulletin #28). Leiden, National Museum of Ethnography. 1995
Jewell, R. & J. Lloyd. Pacific designs.
London: British Museum. 1998
Kaeppler, Adrienne L.
Animal designs on Samoan siapo and other thoughts on West Polynesian barkcloth
designs. Journal of the Polynesian Society 114 (3):197-226. 2005.
Kjellgren, Eric. Oceania:
art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art & New Haven & London, Yale University Press.
2007.
McInnes, L. Water on
Vatulele. University of Sydney, BSc.thesis,1986
Mallon, Sean. Samoan art & artists: O Measina a Samoa. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
2002
Manansala, Paul Kekai. Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan. Lulu.com.
2006
Nainoca, Winifereti U. The
influence of the Fijian way of life (bula vakavanua) on community-based marine
conservation (CBMC) in Fiji, with a focus on social
capital and traditionaecological knowledge (TEK) PhD
thesis, Massey University 2011
Necker, L. Étoffes
Cosmiques; les Anciens Tapas
d'Océanie. Geneva, Museum of
Ethnography, 1987
Neich, R. & M.
Prendergast. Traditional tapa textiles of the Pacific. London: Thames
& Hudson.1997.
Phillips, L. et al. Art of the Pacific Islands
(CDRom). Honolulu: Pacific Resources for Education and Learning. 1999
Poole, M. and G.Swafford,
"Bitter sweet: the broad context of research and music education in
Australia" in Research
Studies in Music Education 1(1):2-12, 1993
Spenneman, D. Saulaca: Fijian sail needles in Domodomo:
Fiji Museum Quarterly 4(2):82-97 Suva, Fiji Museum, 1987
Spicer, Catherine & Rondo Me. Fiji masi, an
ancient art in the new millenium. Gold Coast (Qld) 2004
Stephenson, Elsie. Fiji’s past on
picture postcards. Suva, Caines Jannif Group. 1997.
Thode-Arora, Hilke. Tapa und tiki:
die polynesian-Sammlung des Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums.(Bestandskatalog,
Ethnologica Neue Folge Band 23). Köln [Cologne]: Gesselschaft
für Völkerkunde, Verein zur Förderung
des R-J-M der Stadt Köln [Anthropological
Association, Society for the Promotion of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums of the City of Cologne]. 2001.
Tomlinson, Matt. 2012. “Passports to eternity: whales’ teeth and transcendence in Fijian Methodism” in Flows of Faith 215-231
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Plus a number of reviews of R.Ewins's
books and articles in journals.
UPDATED February 2013
