Nicholas Thomas
Nicholas Thomas is the director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and professor of historical anthropology at the University of Cambridge. His research is focused primarily on art, colonial encounters, and material culture in Oceania. In addition to curating exhibits on these matters, Thomas has written about the shifting meanings of objects as they traveled between the social and exchange spheres of both colonizers and colonized and how material culture was used to articulate identity.
Selected Publications:
Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific (1991)
Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture (1999)
Sources:
<http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2006052502>
<http://museum.archanth.cam.ac.uk/home/museum/staff/index.htm>
Selected Publications:
Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific (1991)
Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture (1999)
Sources:
<http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2006052502>
<http://museum.archanth.cam.ac.uk/home/museum/staff/index.htm>
