An Otago Storeman in Solomon Islands

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

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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.

The Ethnographic Experiment

The Ethnographic Experiment
Title The Ethnographic Experiment PDF eBook
Author Edvard Hviding
Publisher Berghahn Books
Total Pages 336
Release 2014-06-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1782383433

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In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. This would have implications for Rivers' later work in psychiatry and psychology, and Hocart's work as a comparativist, for which both would largely be remembered despite the novelty of that independent fieldwork on remote Pacific islands in the early years of the 20th Century. Contributors to this volume-who have all carried out fieldwork in those Melanesian locations where Hocart and Rivers worked-give a critical examination of the research that took place in 1908, situating those efforts in the broadest possible contexts of colonial history, imperialism, the history of ideas and scholarly practice within and beyond anthropology.

The Hidden Affliction

The Hidden Affliction
Title The Hidden Affliction PDF eBook
Author Simon Szreter
Publisher Rochester Studies in Medical H
Total Pages 452
Release 2019
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 1580469612

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Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the "historic" STIS--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across the globe and spanning millennia.

Tautai

Tautai
Title Tautai PDF eBook
Author Patricia O'Brien
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages 433
Release 2017-05-31
Genre History
ISBN 0824872398

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Tautai is the story of a man who came from the edge of a mighty empire and then challenged it at its very heart. This biography of Ta’isi O. F. Nelson chronicles the life of a man described as the “archenemy” of New Zealand and its greater whole, the British Empire. He was Sāmoa’s richest man who used his wealth and unique international access to further the Sāmoan cause and was financially ruined in the process. In the aftermath of the hyper-violence of the First World War, Ta’isi embraced nonviolent resistance as a means to combat a colonial surge in the Pacific that gripped his country for nearly two decades. This surge was manned by heroes of New Zealand’s war campaign, who attempted to hold the line against the groundswell of challenges to the imperial order in the former German colony of Sāmoa that became a League of Nations mandate in 1921. Stillborn Sāmoan hopes for greater freedoms under this system precipitated a crisis of empire. It led Ta’isi on global journeys in search of justice taking him to Geneva, the League of Nations headquarters, and into courtrooms in Sāmoa, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Ta’isi ran a global campaign of letter writing, petitions, and a newspaper to get his people’s plight heard. For his efforts he was imprisoned and exiled not once but twice from his homeland of Sāmoa. Using private papers and interviews, O’Brien tells a deeply compelling account of Ta’isi’s life lived through turbulent decades. By following Ta’isi’s story readers also learn a history of Sāmoa’s Mau movement that attracted international attention. The author’s care for detail provides a nuanced interpretation of its history and Ta’isi’s role in the broader context of world history. The first biography of Ta’isi O. F. Nelson, Tautai is a powerful and passionate story that is both personal and one that encircles the globe. It touches on shared histories and causes that have animated and enraged populations across the world throughout the twentieth century to the present day.

Who's who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific

Who's who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific
Title Who's who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific PDF eBook
Author
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Total Pages 302
Release 1924
Genre New Zealand
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Who's who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific, 1925

Who's who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific, 1925
Title Who's who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific, 1925 PDF eBook
Author
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Total Pages 304
Release 1924
Genre New Zealand
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Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns

Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns
Title Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns PDF eBook
Author Judith A. Bennett
Publisher
Total Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre Group identity
ISBN 9781877578885

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Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns focuses on how Pacific Island peoples--Oceanians--think about a range of journeys near and far: their meanings, motives, and implications. In addition to addressing human mobility in various island locales, these essays deal with the interconnections of culture, identity, and academic research among indigenous Pacific peoples that have emerged from the contributors' personal observations and fieldwork encounters. Firmly grounded in the human experience, this edited work offers insights into the development of new knowledge in and of the Pacific. More than half the authors are themselves Oceanians and five of twelve essays are by island women.