In Oceania : visions, artifacts, histories / Nicholas Thomas.
Material type: TextPublisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1997Description: xvi, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0822320029
- 9780822320029
- 0822319985
- 9780822319986
- In Oceania : Visions, artefacts, histories
- 306.0995 21
- GN662 .T6 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-259) and index.
List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- 9. Contrasts: Marriage and Identity in Western Fiji -- Epilogue: From Contrast to Relation -- App. The Bula Tale Movement -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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