1997, ISBN: 9780822319986

New York: Century Co., [c. 1919 (ca. 1930)]. Thick 8vo. xii, [2], 450 pp. Photo frntsp., numerous photo plates, illusts. Red cloth, blue lettering on front cover & spine (slight shelfwea… More...

New York: Century Co., [c. 1919 (ca. 1930)]. Thick 8vo. xii, [2], 450 pp. Photo frntsp., numerous photo plates, illusts. Red cloth, blue lettering on front cover & spine (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of canoe in lagoon (minor edgewear, slight wear to corners), NF/VG copy. Popular edition, 54th Thousand of the authors famed travelogue through Polynesia, focusing on his year living in the Marquesas. Made into the 1928 Silent Film starring Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, and Robert Anderson, produced by Irving Thalberg, Hunt Stromberg, and William Randolph Hearst., Century Co., 0, United Kingdom.: Duke University Press.. 1997.. Map, 62 black and white illustrations, index, references, appendix, notes, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, slightly sunned spine, a touch of rubbing corner extremities, good paperback copy. "In this collection of essays, Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology, explores the historicization of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. Basing his claims on wide-ranging historical and ethnographic research and building on his celebrated studies of exchange and colonialism in the Pacific, Thomas describes how outsiders and islanders alike have constructed indigenous cultures over the last two hundred years. In Oceania documents and analyzes the "rhetorical artifacts" of explorers, missionaries, fiction and travel writers, and the people of the Pacific themselves to illustrate how Oceanic identities have been represented over time. Not content with conventional methods of anthropology or history, Thomas draws on postcolonial theory and literary analysis in extraordinarily wide-ranging analyses of texts, visual images, and historical processes. He demonstrates how cultures of the Pacific Islands have dealt with colonialist ventures, modernity, and the debate about the recuperation of histories and traditions. The picture Thomas paints of Oceania, however, is not one of a group of societies stripped of meaning, but one that shows how the interactions between indigenous cultures and European influences have created entirely new identities." - Publisher's description. ., Duke University Press., 1997., 0<

1997, ISBN: 0822319985

[EAN: 9780822319986], [SC: 20.11], [PU: Duke University Press., United Kingdom.], PACIFIC - GENERAL, Map, 62 black and white illustrations, index, references, appendix, notes, prior owner… More...

[EAN: 9780822319986], [SC: 20.11], [PU: Duke University Press., United Kingdom.], PACIFIC - GENERAL, Map, 62 black and white illustrations, index, references, appendix, notes, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, slightly sunned spine, a touch of rubbing corner extremities, good paperback copy. "In this collection of essays, Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology, explores the historicization of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. Basing his claims on wide-ranging historical and ethnographic research and building on his celebrated studies of exchange and colonialism in the Pacific, Thomas describes how outsiders and islanders alike have constructed indigenous cultures over the last two hundred years. In Oceania documents and analyzes the "rhetorical artifacts" of explorers, missionaries, fiction and travel writers, and the people of the Pacific themselves to illustrate how Oceanic identities have been represented over time. Not content with conventional methods of anthropology or history, Thomas draws on postcolonial theory and literary analysis in extraordinarily wide-ranging analyses of texts, visual images, and historical processes. He demonstrates how cultures of the Pacific Islands have dealt with colonialist ventures, modernity, and the debate about the recuperation of histories and traditions. The picture Thomas paints of Oceania, however, is not one of a group of societies stripped of meaning, but one that shows how the interactions between indigenous cultures and European influences have created entirely new identities." - Publisher's description., Books<

1997, ISBN: 9780822319986

United Kingdom.: Duke University Press.. 1997.. Map, 62 black and white illustrations, index, references, appendix, notes, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, slightly sunned spi… More...

United Kingdom.: Duke University Press.. 1997.. Map, 62 black and white illustrations, index, references, appendix, notes, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, slightly sunned spine, a touch of rubbing corner extremities, good paperback copy. "In this collection of essays, Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology, explores the historicization of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. Basing his claims on wide-ranging historical and ethnographic research and building on his celebrated studies of exchange and colonialism in the Pacific, Thomas describes how outsiders and islanders alike have constructed indigenous cultures over the last two hundred years. In Oceania documents and analyzes the "rhetorical artifacts" of explorers, missionaries, fiction and travel writers, and the people of the Pacific themselves to illustrate how Oceanic identities have been represented over time. Not content with conventional methods of anthropology or history, Thomas draws on postcolonial theory and literary analysis in extraordinarily wide-ranging analyses of texts, visual images, and historical processes. He demonstrates how cultures of the Pacific Islands have dealt with colonialist ventures, modernity, and the debate about the recuperation of histories and traditions. The picture Thomas paints of Oceania, however, is not one of a group of societies stripped of meaning, but one that shows how the interactions between indigenous cultures and European influences have created entirely new identities." - Publisher's description. ., Duke University Press., 1997., 0<

ISBN: 9780822319986

"Nicholas Thomas can always be depended upon for lucid arguments that range over an impressive array of materials and engage current debates within and across the fields of anthropology, … More...

"Nicholas Thomas can always be depended upon for lucid arguments that range over an impressive array of materials and engage current debates within and across the fields of anthropology, history, and cultural studies."--Robert J. Foster, University of Rochester Media > Book, [PU: Duke University Press]<