Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literary criticism, law, cultural studies, art history, Pacific Studies), scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds 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.
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Titolo: Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840
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Editore: University of Hawaii Press
Data di Pubblicazione: 1999
Pagine: 00344
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ISBN: 9780824820398