Among the Savages of the South Seas
Title | Among the Savages of the South Seas PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Tetens |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Micronesia |
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Among the Savages of the South Seas. Memoirs of Micronesia, 1862-1868
Title | Among the Savages of the South Seas. Memoirs of Micronesia, 1862-1868 PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Tetens |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Micronesia |
ISBN |
Among the Savages of the South Seas
Title | Among the Savages of the South Seas PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Tetens |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 107 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780758134387 |
Strangers in the South Seas
Title | Strangers in the South Seas PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lansdown |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0824829026 |
Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth-such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another powerful myth was added to this collection: the noble savage. For the first time Westerners were confronted by a people who seemed happier than themselves. This revolution in the human sciences was accompanied by one in the natural sciences after Darwin's momentous visit to the Galapagos Islands. The Pacific produced other challenges for nineteenth-century researchers on race and culture, and for those intent on exporting their religions to this immense quarter of the globe. As the century wore on, the region presented opportunities and dilemmas for the imperial powers, a process was accelerated by the Pacific War between 1941 and 1945. Strangers in the South Seas recounts and illustrates this story using a wealth of primary texts. It includes generous excerpts from the work of explorers, soldiers, naturalists, anthropologists, artists, and writers--some famous, some obscure. It shows how "the Great South Sea" has been an irreplaceable "distant mirror" of the West and its intellectual obsessions since the Renaissance.
The Archaeology of Micronesia
Title | The Archaeology of Micronesia PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Rainbird |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2004-06-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521656306 |
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Historical Dictionary of Guam and Micronesia
Title | Historical Dictionary of Guam and Micronesia PDF eBook |
Author | William L. Wuerch |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780810828582 |
Provides basic reference material on Micronesia, a region encompassing a vast area of the tropical western Pacific Ocean. Includes the Mariana, Caroline, Marshall, and Gilbert islands and the island nation of Nauru.
An Otago Storeman in Solomon Islands
Title | An Otago Storeman in Solomon Islands PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Bayliss-Smith |
Publisher | ANU E Press |
Total Pages | 106 |
Release | 2012-10-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1922144215 |
An Otago Storeman in Solomon Islands reaches from inland South Island of New Zealand across to the Solomon Islands during the 1880s. William Crossan’s Otago experience as a versatile storeman with a solid work ethic helped him survive on the Melanesian frontier where he encountered conflicting clans, cannibalism, cheating traders, and co-operative entrepreneurial big men. His diary provides many glimpses into Makiran society as it encountered new ideas, new employment, and western technology. It is a welcome addition to the sparse record of these cryptic copra traders seeking fortunes on the cusp of indigenous tradition and incoming colonialism.