Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth: Cloth, Collections, Communities
- Submitting institution
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University of Glasgow
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-12840
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Sidestone Press
- ISBN
- 9789088909726
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book (342 pages) was a core outcome of a large-scale three-year research project, and a further two-year period of commissioning and editing contributions. It has contributions from 23 authors, ranging from project researchers to colleagues in the wider field carrying out complementary research. It is written from many perspectives, deriving from object-based and archival research, barkcloth-making, Pacific fieldwork, and engagement with makers and practitioners.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This edited collection is an output of the AHRC-funded research project, ‘Situating Pacific Barkcloth in Time and Place’ (2016-19) of which Lennard was PI. The project website https://tapa.gla.ac.uk forms contextual material, presenting key research outcomes of the project to a wider audience, plus key resources for the study of barkcloth, and detailed information on the barkcloth artefacts in the collections at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (the basis for the project). Lennard set the project goals, in collaboration with Co-Investigators Nesbitt and Kaeppler, and oversaw the project, the progress of the research, and the development of the website.
The volume reports on research carried out by the three investigators, the researchers (including Mills), advisory panel members and project collaborators, as well as a small amount of wider research by respected Pacific art historians and ethnographers which contributes to project goals. In addition to her written components, Lennard played the major role in bringing together, shaping and editing the individual contributions.
The project was interdisciplinary, involving Pacific art history, botany, materials science and conservation. The volume (the output) focuses on art history and botany, with research on materials science and conservation published elsewhere (eg Smith, M.J., S. Holmes-Smith and F. Lennard. 2019. “Development of methodology using ATR-FTIR with PCA to determine the species’ groups used in the making of historical Pacific barkcloth.” Journal of Cultural Heritage 39: 32-41; Tamura, M., Ridley, C. and Lennard, F., eds. Recent Advances in Barkcloth Conservation and Technical Analysis: Postprints of the Symposium held at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, December 7, 2018. London: Icon Ethnography Group, 2021 forthcoming). Key project findings were also briefly reported in a public-facing exhibition at the Hunterian Museum, Barkcloth: Revealing Pacific Craft, from 29 August to 29 November 2019.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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