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Pacific Encounters

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Author : Steven Hooper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Pacific Encounters written by Steven Hooper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.

"Pacific Encounters brings together for the first time many stunning Polynesian objects collected by voyagers and missionaries during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." "Illustrated are over 270 items gathered from the major regions of Polynesia. Many are from the British Museum, which houses fine and rare material from the expeditions of Captain Cook, Captain Vancouver and members of the London Missionary Society. Ranging from massive images of gods to small fish hooks, they are discussed in the contexts of their local use and meanings, and their journeys to museums all over the world. These pieces have remarkable stories to tell of encounters between humans and their gods, between Polynesians and Europeans, their respective chiefs and priests, beliefs and technologies."--BOOK JACKET.

Voyages And Beaches

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Author : Alex Calder
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1999-04-01

Voyages And Beaches written by Alex Calder and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-01 with History categories.

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 Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literary criticism, law, cultural studies, art history, Pacific Studies), they show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by such homogenizing metropolitan myths as the introduction of civilization to savage peoples, the general ruin of indigenous cultures by an imperial juggernaut, or the mimicry of European models by an abject population. They examine contact from both sides of beaches throughout Polynesia, exposing the many inconsistencies from which Pacific history is made. Some of the essays consider the extent to which traditional European ideas about organizing and legitimizing claims to territory and power were invoked and problematized in the South Pacific; some consider the violence endemic in such scenes; others examine the aesthetic discourses with which early travelers and settlers attempted to make sense of the Pacific in the aftermath of "discovery." But rather than reiterate the myths and anti-myths of conquest, these essays show how local differences have made and do make a difference. They emphasize the Pacific's capacity to absorb and transform the impact of Europe, an impact that has been as notable for its ambivalence and confusion as for its single-minded pursuit of hegemony. The editors develop these themes in a wide-ranging introduction that relates Pacific concerns to a more global set of theoretical and methodological problems, including current work in post-colonial and subaltern studies.

Intimate Strangers

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Author : Vanessa Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-28

Intimate Strangers written by Vanessa Smith and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-28 with Family & Relationships categories.

A fascinating study of the importance of ideas of friendship in late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific.

Pacific Encounters

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Author : Steven Hooper
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006-06-30

Pacific Encounters written by Steven Hooper and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-30 with Art categories.

Pacific Encounters brings together for the first time many stunning Polynesian objects collected by voyagers and missionaries during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Illustrated are over 270 items gathered from the major regions of Polynesia. Many are from the British Museum, which houses fine and rare material from the expeditions of Captain Cook, Captain Vancouver, and members of the London Missionary Society. Ranging from massive images of gods to small fish hooks, they are discussed in the contexts of their local use and meanings, and their journeys to museums all over the world. These pieces have remarkable stories to tell of encounters between humans and their gods, between Polynesians and Europeans, their respective chiefs and priests, beliefs, and technologies. Pacific Encounters is a groundbreaking book that conveys the wonder and excitement not only of the objects themselves, but of the fascinating Polynesian cultures that produced them.

The Pacific Theater

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Author : Geoffrey Miles White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

The Pacific Theater written by Geoffrey Miles White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.

Contributions from anthropologists participating in a symposium of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, New Harmony, Indiana, 1986, examine the experiences of Pacific Islanders in the war and their remembrances of it as observers, laborers, on patrol, under bombardment. The studies de

Pacific History

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Author : Pacific History Association. Conference
language : en
Publisher: Hachette Digital
Release Date : 1992

Pacific History written by Pacific History Association. Conference and has been published by Hachette Digital this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.

Pacific Studies

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Pacific Studies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Oceania categories.

The Story Of The House Of Lancaster

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Author : Henry Hartwright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897

The Story Of The House Of Lancaster written by Henry Hartwright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Great Britain categories.

History Of The Northern Pacific Railroad

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Author : Eugene Virgil Smalley
language : en
Publisher: New York : Putnam
Release Date : 1883

History Of The Northern Pacific Railroad written by Eugene Virgil Smalley and has been published by New York : Putnam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Northwest, Pacific categories.

Pacific Arts

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990

Pacific Arts written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Arts categories.