Watriama and Co : further Pacific islands portraits / Hugh Laracy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laracy, Hugh, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Watriama, William Jacob, 1880?-1925.

Pacific Islanders--Biography.

Pacific Islanders.

Islands of the Pacific--History.

Islands of the Pacific.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press, [2013].

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Watriama and Co (the title echoes Kipling's Stalky and Co!) is a collection of biographical essays about people associated with the Pacific Islands. It covers a period of almost a century and a half. However, the individual stories of first-hand experience converge to some extent in various ways so as to present a broadly coherent picture of 'Pacific History'. In this, politics, economics and religion overlap. So, too, do indigenous cultures and concerns; together with the activities and interests of the Europeans who ventured into the Pacific and who had a profound, widespread and enduring impact there from the nineteenth century, and who also prompted reactions from the Island peoples. Not least significant in this process is the fact that the Europeans generated a 'paper trail' through which their stories and those of the Islanders (who also contributed to their written record) can be known. Thus, not only are the subjects of the essays to be encountered personally, and within a contextual kinship, but the way in which the past has shaped the future is clearly discernible. Watriama himself features in various historical narratives. So, too, certain of his confrères in this collection, which is the product of several decades of exploring the Pacific past in archives, by sea, and on foot through most of Oceania.

Contents:

Preliminary pages; Preface; 1. Pierre Chanel of Futuna (1803-1841): The making of a saint; 2. The Sinclairs Of Pigeon Bay, or 'The 'The Prehistory of the Robinsons of Ni'ihau': An essay in historiography, or 'tales their mother told them'; 3. Insular Eminence: Cardinal Moran (1830-1911) and the Pacific islands; 4. Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming (1837-1924): Traveller, author, painter; 5. Niels Peter Sorensen (1848-1935): The story of a criminal adventurer; 6. John Strasburg (1856-1924): A plain sailor; 7. Ernest Frederick Hughes Allen (1867-1924): South Seas trader

8. Beatrice Grimshaw (1870-1953): Pride and prejudice in Papua9. W.J. Watriama (c. 1880-1925): Pretender and patriot, (or 'a blackman's defence of White Australia'); 10. Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (1881-1969): Traveller, writer, scientist; 11. Donald Gilbert Kennedy (1898-1967): An outsider in the Colonial Service; 12. George Bogese (1904-1959): 'Just a bloody traitor'?; 13. Hector MacQuarrie (1889-1973): Traveller, writer, friend of Vouza; 14. Patrick O'Reilly (1900-1988): Bibliographer of the Pacific; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781921666339

9781921666322

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459999