Voyages and beaches : Pacific encounters, 1769-1840
From an interdisciplinary standpoint, this book shows how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by such homogenizing metropolitan myths as the ruin of indigenous cultures or the mimicry of European models by an abject population
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, ©1999
Conference papers and proceedings
viii, 344 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9780824820398, 0824820398
39812109
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
Papers presented at the 9th David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, University of Auckland, 1993
Alex Calder is a New Zealand author, Jonathan Lamb and Bridget Orr taught at the University of Auckland