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Gauguin, Polynesia

Author : Paul Gauguin
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
ISBN 13 : 9783777442617
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Gauguin, Polynesia written by Paul Gauguin and published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The evolution of this fascinating encounter between European and Polynesian culture also focuses on the larger development of art in the Pacific in the era following its first European contact. Twelve insightful and original essays about Paul Gauguin and Polynesia, written by eminent scholars in the field of art history and ethnology, present the development of Polynesian art before and after Gauguin's stay in Polynesia at the end of the 19th century. The book presents over 60 works by Paul Gauguin, fully revealing the extent of the influence of Polynesian art and culture on his work, while also highlighting more than 60 works from the Pacific that exemplify the dynamic exchanges of Pacific Island peoples with Europeans throughout the 19th century."--Publisher's website.

Gone Native in Polynesia

Author : Ian C. Campbell
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gone Native in Polynesia written by Ian C. Campbell and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-08-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campbell presents a study of the lives and experiences of Europeans and Americans in the age of early industrial overseas expansions, who became detatched from their own societies and lived, sometimes for many years, among Pacific Islanders as integrated members of their communities, often with little hope of returning home and frequently with no wish to do so. As engaging as primitivism was to European philosophers, the realities of contact between seafarers and islanders who faced previously unimagined technological and human marvels were much more pragmatic. Jealousy, ethnocentrism, and violence on both sides competed with humanitarian interests and indigenous hospitality to shape the emerging pattern of relationships. At first, Europeans crossed the oceans only for compelling reasons: the passion for scientific research, the dedication to Christian evangelism, or the uncompromising profit motive. Later, settlers and government officials followed in the wake of these early explorers. Scattered in the interstices of contact relationships were large numbers of men whose interest was not in changing native society or profiting from it, but in experiencing primitive life and simply surviving itself. These men included castaways and deserters, some abandoned by their captains and others kidnapped by the islanders. Their prospects depended on their successful integration into Polynesian society—and in making themselves useful by applying European knowledge and skills to local situations and by mediating between islanders and their insistent visitors.

Tahiti Nui

Author : Colin W. Newbury
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824880323
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Tahiti Nui written by Colin W. Newbury and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tahiti Nui is an account of the survival of a Polynesian society in the face of successive settlements of missionaries, traders, and administrators. Beginning with the first explorers and Captain Cook's scientific observations at Point Venus, Dr. Newbury has separated the various strands interwoven in the fabric of Tahitian society, tracing their development and showing how they interacted at successive stages. Missionaries and foreign traders, administrators and Polynesians, planters and immigrant Chinese have all contributed to the distinctive flavor of French Polynesia, with Tahiti and Tahitians becoming increasingly dominant, not just as the focus of the French administration in Pape'ete, but in the social networks and trading patterns that have evolved.

Unfamiliar Fishes

Author : Sarah Vowell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101486457
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Unfamiliar Fishes written by Sarah Vowell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight. Among the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d'état of the missionaries' sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to whores, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha 'Oe" serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade. With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell lights out to discover the off, emblematic, and exceptional history of the fiftieth state, and in so doing finds America, warts and all.

Vanishing Paradise

Author : Elizabeth C. Childs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271734
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Paradise written by Elizabeth C. Childs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-05-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanishing paradise" offers a fresh take on the modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the exoticism of the American John LaFarge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams. Childs explores how these artists wrestled with the elusiveness of paradise and portrayed colonial Tahiti in ways both mythic and modern.

Polynesian Interconnections

Author : Peter Leiataua Ahching
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411602730
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Polynesian Interconnections written by Peter Leiataua Ahching and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POLYNESIAN INTERCONNECTIONS celebrates the unity of one Polynesian family related to Europeans, Asians and Aborigines Africans through their ancient heritage and genetics. The term Polynesian means 'many islands' or 'many races.' The Polynesians came from an ancient family of intermixed races and today we share our love with all peoples of the world. We are one family, the human family, the Polynesian family. To the world we say 'ALOHA.' And may the love and spirit of family bring happiness and prosperity into our lives.

Tahiti

Author : George Calderon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317856694
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Tahiti written by George Calderon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2008. The people and life of Tahiti had sunk deeply into the heart of Calderon; but when he returned home, he deliberately postponed the book he intended to write, in order that he might recall the memory in due perspective. He left it incomplete, but there is a synopsis which shows how he meant to construct it, with the help of these the book has been brought to the shape in which it is now published. The reader will understand how the book inevitably shows unevenness, save for the chapters which had received the author's finishing touch.

Tahiti Beyond the Postcard

Author : Miriam Kahn
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029599102X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Tahiti Beyond the Postcard written by Miriam Kahn and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tahiti evokes visions of white beaches and beautiful women. This imagined paradise, created by Euro-American romanticism, endures today as the bedrock of Tahiti's tourism industry, while quite a different place is inhabited and experienced by ta'ata ma'ohi, as Tahitians refer to themselves. This book brings into dialogue the perspectives on place of both Tahitians and Europeans. Miriam Kahn is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington and author of Always Hungry, Never Greedy.

Tahiti

Author : George Calderon
Publisher : London : G. Richards
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tahiti written by George Calderon and published by London : G. Richards. This book was released on 1922 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All Good Things

Author : Sarah Turnbull
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592408834
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book All Good Things written by Sarah Turnbull and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lushly written follow-up to Almost French, Sarah Turnbull explores a new paradise: Tahiti. Having shared her story in her bestselling memoir, Almost French, Australian writer Sarah Turnbull seemed to have had more than her fair share of dreams come true. While Sarah went on to carve out an idyllic life in Paris with her husband, Frédéric, there was still one dream she was beginning to fear might be impossible—starting a family. Then out of the blue an opportunity to embark on another adventure offered a new beginning—and new hope. Leaving behind life in the world’s most romantic and beautiful city was never going to be easy. But it helps when your destination is another paradise on earth: Tahiti.

The Word, the Pen, and the Pistol

Author : Robert Nicole
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791447390
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Word, the Pen, and the Pistol written by Robert Nicole and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This postcolonial study explores the Western myth of Tahiti as a paradise, as well as the complex and diverse ways the Maohi people have responded to this myth.

American Cinema of the 1930s

Author : Ina Rae Hark
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813540828
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book American Cinema of the 1930s written by Ina Rae Hark and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract:

Manifestations of Mana

Author : Paul van der Grijp
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643904967
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Manifestations of Mana written by Paul van der Grijp and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of mana in past and present configurations of chiefly power in the Pacific. Chiefs are often seen as transitional figures between traditional (tribal or feudal) and modern forms of leadership, the latter characterized by rationality and the nation-state with its accompanying bureaucracy. Today, the political arena in the Pacific, although occupied by presidents, members of parliament and court justices, is still ruled by chiefs supporting their authority by tradition, including the notion of mana. Mana may be defined as divine inspiration or energy that manifests itself in persons, objects, places and natural phenomena. Polynesian chiefs have mana because of their descent from ancient gods. Other key concepts such as asymmetrical ideology, mythical constructions of social reality, and social drama are elaborated and applied to a wide specter of ethnographic examples. The configuration and reconfiguration of Tongan chieftaincy and kingship in this book are analyzed as an extended case study of the gradual, and sometimes shock-like, integration of a Polynes ian culture into a global structure, a nation-state, partly imposed from the outside (missionarization, colonization) but also generated from within including state formation and the recent quest for democracy. Together with other Polynesian examples, this forms a relevant illustration of both continuity and change in the configuration of mana and chieftaincy in processes of globalization in the Pacific.

The British Missionary Enterprise Since 1700

Author : Jeffrey Cox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134877560
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The British Missionary Enterprise Since 1700 written by Jeffrey Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and much needed overview of the fascinating and controversial subject that is history of the missionary, Jeffrey Cox presents a balanced survey which examines Britain as the home base of missions and the impact of the missions themselves.

God, Gulliver, and Genocide

Author : Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199257508
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book God, Gulliver, and Genocide written by Claude Julien Rawson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are obsessed with 'barbarians'. They are the 'not us', who don't speak our language, or 'any language', whom we depise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or admiration, and an intense sexual interest; whose innocence or vigour we aspire to, and who have an extraordinaryinfluence on the comportment, and even modes of dress, of our civilised metropolitan lives; whom we often outdo in the barbarism we impute to them; and whose suspected resemblance to us haunts our introspections and imaginings. They come in two overlapping categories, ethnic others and home-grownpariahs: conquered infidels and savages, the Irish, the poor, the Jews. This book looks afresh at how we have confronted the idea of 'barbarism', in ourselves and others, from 1492 to 1945, through the voices of many writers, chiefly Montaigne, Swift and, to a lesser extent, Shaw.

What in the World Is God Doing

Author : C. Gordon Olson
Publisher : Global Gospel Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780962485053
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book What in the World Is God Doing written by C. Gordon Olson and published by Global Gospel Publishers. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran missionary and missiologist C. Gordon Olson has distilled his knowledge and experience to produce an introductory text to missions that is marked by its balance between theory and practice.

Absinthe--The Cocaine of the Nineteenth Century

Author : Doris Lanier
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476628254
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Absinthe--The Cocaine of the Nineteenth Century written by Doris Lanier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an alcohol content sometimes as high as 80 percent, absinthe was made by mixing the leaves of wormwood with other plants such as angelica root, fennel, coriander, hyssop, marjoram and anise for flavor. The result was a bitter, potent drink that became a major social, medical and political phenomenon during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; its popularity was mainly in France, but also in other parts of Europe and the United States, particularly in New Orleans. Absinthe produced a sense of euphoria and a heightening of the senses, similar to the effect of cocaine and opium, but was addictive and caused a rapid loss of mental and physical faculties. Despite that, Picasso, Manet, Rimbaud, Van Gogh, Degas and Wilde were among those devoted to its consumption and produced writings and art influenced by the drink. This work provides a history of "the green fairy", a study of its use and abuse, an exploration of the tremendous social problems (not unlike the cocaine problems of this century) it caused, and an examination of the extent to which the lives of talented young writers and artists of the period became caught up in the absinthe craze.