Books in the Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology - Cultural Forms series

This is an investigation of the current expansion of Christmas at a time of decline in other festivals. It compares the Christmas phenomenon to other celebrations and includes discussion of Christmas and materialism, Christmas and the family, and Christmas in the context of various cultures.

Wrapping in Images is a comparative analysis of tattooing in Polynesia in its original setting. It shows how tattooing played a key role in the social construction of the person in the main Polynesian societies, and provides a new perspective on Polynesian comparative sociology.

Seeing the Inside is the first detailed study of one of the world's great visual art traditions, the bark painting of Aboriginal artists in western Arnhem Land, Australia. Luke Taylor explains how their unique tradition has developed, and examines the cultural meaning of this art and its role in the society which produces it.