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Voyages and beaches : Pacific encounters, 1769-1840 /

What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Sett...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar
Otros Autores: Calder, Alex (Editor ), Lamb, Jonathan, 1945- (Editor ), Orr, Bridget (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : postcoloniality and the Pacific / Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb and Bridget Orr
  • Nature and history, self and other : European perceptions of world history in the age of encounter / J.G.A. Pocock
  • South Pacific mythology / 'I.F. Helu
  • The postmodern legacy of a premodern warrior goddess in modern Samoa / Malama Meleisea
  • Myth and history / 'Okusitino Māhina
  • A history lesson : Captain Cook finds himself in the state of nature / Stephen Turner
  • Myth, science and experience in the British construction of the Pacific / David Mackay
  • A tribal encounter : the presence and properties of common-law language in the discourse of colonization in the early modern period / P.G. McHugh
  • Liberty and license : the Forsters' accounts of New Zealand sociality / Nicholas Thomas
  • Early contact ethnography and understanding : an evaluation of the Cook expeditionary accounts of the Grass Cove conflict / Ian G. Barber
  • My musket, my missionary and my Mana / Pat Hohepa
  • Enlightenment anthropology and the ancestral remains of Australian aboriginal people / Paul Turnbull
  • Missionaries on Tahiti, 1797-1840 / Rod Edmond
  • Augustus Earle's The meeting of the artiest and the wounded Chief Hongi, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 1827 and his depictions of other New Zealand encounters : contexts and connections / Leonard Bell
  • Categorical weavings : European representations of the architecture of Hakari / Sarah Treadwell
  • Pacific colonialism and the formation of literary culture / Simon During
  • The canon on the beach : H.T. Kemp translating Robinson Crusoe and The pilgrim's progress / Mark Houlahan
  • Tuku Whenua and land sale in New Zealand in the nineteenth century / Margaret Mutu.