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Voyages and
beaches : Pacific encounters, 1769-1840 [papers presented at the
9th David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, University of Auckland, 1993]
/ ed. by Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb and Bridget Orr. - Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. - VIII-344 p. : ill.,
map ; 24 cm.
ISBN 0-8248-2039-8
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NOTE DE L'ÉDITEUR : 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.
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- Introduction : Postcoloniality and the Pacific
Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb, Bridget Orr
- Nature and history, self and other : european perceptions of world history in the age of encounter
J.G.A. Pocok
- South Pacific mythology
I.F. Helu
- The postmodern legacy of a premodern warrior goddess in modern Samoa
Malama Meleisea
- Myth and history
Okusitino Mahina
- 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, an 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 artist 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 of 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
Contributors
Index |
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| COMPLÉMENT BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE | - Alex
Calder, « The settler's plot : how stories take place in New
Zealand », Auckland : Auckland university press, 2011
- Alex Calder (ed.), « The writing of New Zealand : inventions and identities », Auckland : Reed, 1993
| - Jonathan
Lamb, « Preserving the self in the South Seas,
1680-1840 », Chicago : University of Chicago press, 2001
- Jonathan
Lamb, Vanessa Smith, and Nicholas Thomas (eds.),
« Exploration & exchange : a South Seas anthology,
1680-1900 », Chicago : University of Chicago press, 2000
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| mise-à-jour : 8 janvier 2013 |
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