The South Seas in the Modern World
Author : Felix Maxwell Keesing
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Felix Maxwell Keesing
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : A. J. A. Douglas
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 1926
Category :
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Author : Mel Kernahan
Publisher : Verso
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 1995-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781859849781
"Before getting tickets for that Tahitian holiday you've dreamed about, read this book." Publishers Weekly
Author : Richard Parkinson
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1920899634
Richard Parkinson's Thirty Years in the South Seas was first published in 1907. In this 900-page work, Parkinson drew together and expanded on the scientific and popular papers he had been publishing since 1887, creating in the process a landmark ethnography of the Bismarck Archipelago. Parkinson moved to New Britain in 1879, only seven years after the first trader had established himself in the area. Over the next thirty years, he employed many local people on the family's expanding plantations, and travelled widely in the area, trading for produce (especially coconuts), observing traditional life, and buying artefacts for museums in Europe, USA and Australia. His travels covered the islands now known as New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, Manus, Buka and Bougainville, but he also collected information about the mainland of New Guinea (Kaiser Wilhelmsland). His observations covered a wide range of topics, from religious life and ceremonies to artefacts and language. It is clear he talked extensively with people - though mostly with a translator - and compared accounts. He also took many photographs, some 200 of which were included in the volume. Given the period, all his human subjects had to be posed, but the range of associated detail, probably unconsciously included, is substantial. What is particularly important about this work is the period in which it was written. While Parkinson may never have been the first contact of any local people, he was clearly among the first, and observed many societies before they were extensively incorporated into the Western economy, or missionised. Thirty Years in the South Seas is unparalleled in the literature of the Bismarck Archipelago. It is an incomparable picture of a time and place now long past.
Author : Brian C. Bernards
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 029580615X
Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling with native cultures. Writing the South Seas explains why Nanyang encounters, neglected by most literary histories, should be considered crucial to the national literatures of China and Southeast Asia.
Author : Darlene Geis
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Islands of the Pacific
ISBN :
Describes the islands' history, customs, business and religion.
Author : Lowell Don Holmes
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574091304
Not only the British writer himself, already famous for novels and poems, but his family with him took to the sea between 1888 and 1890 to search Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia for Robert's health and adventure. Writer and film maker Holmes (emeritus anthropology, Wichita State U. Kansas) has
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Lamb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226468496
The violence, wonder, and nostalgia of voyaging are nowhere more vivid than in the literature of South Seas exploration. Preserving the Self in the South Seas charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed. Lamb contends that European exploration of the South Seas was less confident and mindful than we have assumed. It was, instead, conducted in moods of distraction and infatuation that were hard to make sense of and difficult to narrate, and it prompted reactions among indigenous peoples that were equally passionate and irregular. Preserving the Self in the South Seas also examines these common crises of exploration in the context of a metropolitan audience that eagerly consumed narratives of the Pacific while doubting their truth. Lamb considers why these halting and incredible journals were so popular with the reading public, and suggests that they dramatized anxieties and bafflements rankling at the heart of commercial society.
Author : Beatrice Grimshaw
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Islands of the Pacific
ISBN :