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Nicholas Jeremy Thomas FBA FAHA (born 1960) is an Australian-born anthropologist, Professor of Historical Anthropology, and Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge since 2006, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2007.
Nicholas Thomas is the Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University. He is a renowned scholar of art, culture and history in Oceania, Europe and beyond, and has curated several exhibitions at MAA and other venues.
Nicholas Thomas is a professor of anthropology and the director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University. He specializes in Pacific cultures, material culture, colonialism and art history.
His first chapter focuses on this ascendency, characterising the shift as “a kind of belated adolescence”: a period during which museums have grown “suddenly in fits and starts, assuming new attitudes and responsibilities, demanding and obtaining attention and money”.
Jun 15, 2021 · Nicholas Thomas. 3.55. 353 ratings40 reviews. An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street Journal.
Oct 11, 1991 · Nicholas Thomas. Harvard University Press, Oct 11, 1991 - Social Science - 259 pages. Entangled Objects threatens to dislodge the cornerstone of Western anthropology by rendering permanently...
In this collection of essays, Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology, explores the historicization of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania.
