Steven Hooper’s Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific is a magnificent, museum‑scale exploration of Fiji’s artistic heritage, created to accompany the major Sainsbury Centre exhibition. Hooper—one of the world’s leading scholars of Pacific arts—presents Fiji not just as a place of beautiful objects, but as a vibrant cultural world shaped by ceremony, craftsmanship, voyaging, and ancestral knowledge. The book showcases weapons, barkcloth, carving, ritual regalia, architecture, and contemporary art, placing each piece within its social and spiritual context. It’s visually rich, deeply researched, and designed to illuminate how art expresses identity, hierarchy, and connection across Fijian history.