Nature, Culture, and History: The "knowing" of OceaniaThis text places Oceania in a broad global and intellectual context and explores the meeting of two perceived entities - the west and Pacific peoples. It incorporates such diverse topics as notions of paradise, human destiny, technology, knowing, colonialism, racism, gender, and more. |
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anthropology argued assumptions Australian National University biological British Bronislaw Malinowski Cambridge University Press chapter civilization climate colonial commonly Contemporary Pacific Cook voyages degenerate Denoon depopulation Derek Freeman early twentieth early-twentieth-century Empire Enlightenment environment environmental European evolutionary example explanation extinction extinctionism Fafa Fiji Forster Gender geography George Hawai'i Press Hawaiian Henry Plotkin historians human Ibid idea images imperial history indigenous culture influenced island populations island societies John Macmillan Brown Journal of Pacific land Landscape London Louis Becke Macmillan Brown Malinowski Melanesia ment modern moral native nature and culture nial Nicholas Thomas nineteenth century notions Obeyesekere Ocean Oceania Oxford Pacific history Pacific islands Pacific societies Pacific Studies physical political Polynesian postcolonial postcolonial history postcolonial Pacific history race racial Robert Hoskins Routledge Sahlins savage sense social South Pacific South Seas theory thought tion tourist tradition tropical twentieth century University of Hawai'i W. H. R. Rivers women Zealand