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Risky shores : savagery and colonialism in the Western Pacific / George K. Behlmer.
LIBRA DU490 .B44 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Behlmer, George K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Primitive societies.
- Colonies.
- History.
- Manners and customs.
- Melanesia--Social life and customs.
- Melanesia.
- Melanesia--Foreign public opinion, British.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Oceania--History.
- Great Britain.
- Oceania.
- Primitive societies--Melanesia.
- British colonies.
- Public opinion, British.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 338 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Introduction : the protean savage
- Island stories of the cannibal kind
- Missionary martyrs of Melanesia
- Indentured labor and the white savage
- The twilight of headhunting
- Among "stone-age" savages
- Conclusion : savage inversions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Behlmer, George K. Risky shores.
- ISBN:
- 9781503604926
- 1503604926
- 9781503605947
- 1503605949
- OCLC:
- 999545674
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