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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.
In the end, The Return of Curiosity might have been either a more effective shorter essay, or a more convincing (if bulkier) monograph. But these were not the works that Thomas set out to write, and I for one have nevertheless been considerably enlightened by the book that he has written.
Jun 15, 2021 · Nicholas Thomas. 3.55. 355 ratings41 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.
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.
Jun 15, 2021 · In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward.
