Nature, culture, and history : the "knowing" of Oceania / K.R. Howe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howe, K. R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oceania.

Oceania Region.

Physical Description:

x, 120 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaií Press, 2000.

Summary:

Explores the changing ways in which Pacific Islanders have been seen and represented by outsiders over the last 200 years. The Pacific Islands has been a testing ground for various Western ideas and ideologies and the author looks at this long intellectual history as an artifact of the Western imagination. Of particular concern is to see how concepts of nature, culture and history have defined Western perceptions of Pacific Islanders.

Contents:

Introduction

Nature as culture

Culture as nature

History as culture.

Notes:

Rev. and extended versions of the three lectures presented at Massey University, Palmerston North and Albany campuses, in 1997, as the "Macmillan Brown lectures," organized by the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-115) and index.

ISBN:

0824822862

082482329X

OCLC:

43114288