Pacific

Racism. There, we said it. You can let your shoulders drop now that you know we will say the word and not sidestep it to protect people' s comfort. Or, you can raise your shoulders in preparation for tension as you realise that this book will not talk about unconscious bias or other terms that enable us to excuse ourselves from our own complicity in, inaction on, or upholding of racist structures

"This book hopes to present the readers more than just an account of how Masi is made, though this will of course be a large component of the book

Patterns of the Past traces the history and practice of tattooing through the ancient oral traditions of the Cook Island people, as well as from reports of early Western visitors and rich archival material

In the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature

The small, scattered islands of the Cook group - in the Pacific - had a rich artistic tradition and a remarkable level of craftsmanship in a variety of materials