In Oceania : visions, artifacts, histories /
"In Oceania" documents and analyses the "rhetorical artifacts" of explorers, missionaries, fiction and travel writers, and the people of the Pacific themselves to illustrate how Oceanic identities have been represented over time. The author shows how cultures of the Pacific Islan...
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Tupaia's Map
- pt. I.
- Visions of History and Anthropology.
- 1.
- Partial Texts: Representation, Colonialism, and Agency in Pacific History.
- 2.
- Alejandro Mayta in Fiji: Narratives about Millenarianism, Colonialism, Postcolonial Politics, and Custom
- pt. II.
- Colonial Images and Narratives.
- 3.
- Liberty and Licence: New Zealand Societies in Cook Voyage Anthropology.
- 4.
- Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings.
- 5.
- Melanesians and Polynesians: Ethnic Typifications inside and outside Anthropology.
- 6.
- Fear and Loathing in the South Pacific: Colonial and Postcolonial History in Popular Fiction
- pt. III.
- Beyond the Invention of Tradition.
- 7.
- Tin and Thatch.
- 8.
- The Inversion of Tradition.