Unstable Images : Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875-1935 / Brenda Johnson Clay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clay, Brenda Johnson, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Papua New Guinea.

Ethnology.

Papua New Guinea--Colonial influence.

Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea--Relations.

Papua New Guinea--Ethnic relations.

Papua New Guinea--Race relations.

Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs.

Papua New Guinea--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 324 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2005]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The subject of colonialism encompasses a multitude of analytic concerns about the nature and extent of political controls, economic inequalities, and social hierarchies. Underlying the varied conditions of power and subordination are the diverse, sometimes contested representations of human difference that motivate, support, or question colonial practices and projects. Unstable Images concentrates a critical gaze on this discursive side of colonialism through close readings of a series of Western texts on the people of New Ireland from the 1870s to the 1930s--when the status of the New Ireland-New Britain region changed from precolonial to German control and finally to a League of Nations mandated Australian administration.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

A Note on Vocabulary

Introduction

1. Dispersions, 1875-1881

2. Accommodations and Refractions, 1901-1912

3. Mimetic Others, 1919-1921

4. Moral Neurasthenia or Functioning Tribal Society, 1929-1935

5. Gifts and Curios

6. Islander Responses: From Objects to Subjects

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824874612

0824874617

OCLC:

1024061777