This is an important book that deserves a wide readership. It combines the excellent production values of an art book ‒ there are 306 exquisitely reproduced images ‒ with incisive analysis and very collaborative research practices.
Melanesia: Art and Encounter. Edited by Lissant Bolton, Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek, Julie Adams and Ben Burt. London, British Museum Press, 2013. 384 pp., illus., maps, bibliog., index. ISBN 9780714125961 (hbk).