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Nature, culture, and history : the "knowing" of Oceania /
Explores the changing ways in which Pacific Islanders have been seen and represented by outsiders over the last 200 years. The Pacific Islands has been a testing ground for various Western ideas and ideologies and the author looks at this long intellectual history as an artifact of the Western imagi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaií Press,
[2000]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Explores the changing ways in which Pacific Islanders have been seen and represented by outsiders over the last 200 years. The Pacific Islands has been a testing ground for various Western ideas and ideologies and the author looks at this long intellectual history as an artifact of the Western imagination. Of particular concern is to see how concepts of nature, culture and history have defined Western perceptions of Pacific Islanders. |
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| Notas: | Rev. and extended versions of the three lectures presented at Massey University, Palmerston North and Albany campuses, in 1997, as the "Macmillan Brown lectures," organized by the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 120 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780824863722 0824863720 |