Stealing with the Eyes

Imaginings and Incantations in Indonesia

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As a young trainee anthropologist in the 1990s, Will Buckingham travelled to the remote Tanimbar Islands in Indonesia. Looking back two decades later, he recalls his friendship with three sculptors, and how their art embodied the islanders’ history, philosophy and myth. His experiences of magic and sickness would lead him to question, and eventually abandon, his anthropological studies.

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