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Book Synopsis Wrecked Among Cannibals in the Fijis by : William Endicott
Download or read book Wrecked Among Cannibals in the Fijis written by William Endicott and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Abridgment by : United States. President
Download or read book The Abridgment written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty by : Ralph Thomas Kam
Download or read book Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty written by Ralph Thomas Kam and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bones of Hawaii's King Kamehameha the Great were hidden at night in a secret location. In contrast, his successor Kamehameha III had a half-mile-long funeral procession to the Royal Tomb watched by thousands. Drawing on missionary journals, government publications and Hawaiian and English language newspapers, this book describes changes in funerary practices for Hawaiian royalty and details the observance of each royal death beginning with that of Kamehameha in 1819. Funeral observances of Western royalty provided an extravagant model for their Hawaiian counterparts yet many indigenous practices endured. Mourners no longer knocked out their teeth or tattooed their tongues but mass wailing, feather standards and funeral dirges continued well into the 20th century. Dozens of historic drawings and photographs provide rare glimpses of the obsequies of the Kamehameha and Kalakaua dynasties. Descriptions of the burial sites provide locations of the final resting places of Hawaii's royalty.
Book Synopsis Cannibal Talk by : Gananath Obeyesekere
Download or read book Cannibal Talk written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-06-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this radical reexamination of the notion of cannibalism, Gananath Obeyesekere offers a fascinating and convincing argument that cannibalism is mostly "cannibal talk," a discourse on the Other engaged in by both indigenous peoples and colonial intruders that results in sometimes funny and sometimes deadly cultural misunderstandings. Turning his keen intelligence to Polynesian societies in the early periods of European contact and colonization, Obeyesekere deconstructs Western eyewitness accounts, carefully examining their origins and treating them as a species of fiction writing and seamen's yarns. Cannibalism is less a social or cultural fact than a mythic representation of European writing that reflects much more the realities of European societies and their fascination with the practice of cannibalism, he argues. And while very limited forms of cannibalism might have occurred in Polynesian societies, they were largely in connection with human sacrifice and carried out by a select community in well-defined sacramental rituals. Cannibal Talk considers how the colonial intrusion produced a complex self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the fantasy of cannibalism became a reality as natives on occasion began to eat both Europeans and their own enemies in acts of "conspicuous anthropophagy."
Book Synopsis Eastward of Good Hope by : Dane A. Morrison
Download or read book Eastward of Good Hope written by Dane A. Morrison and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did news from the East—carried in ship logs and mariners' reports, journals, and correspondence—shape early Americans' understanding of the world as a map of dangerous and incoherent sites? Winner of the John Lyman Book Award by the North American Society for Oceanic History Freed from restrictions of British mercantilism in the years following the War of Independence, Yankee merchants embarked on numerous voyages of commerce and discovery into distant seas. Through the news from the East, carried in mariners' reports, ship logs, journals, and correspondence, Americans at home imagined the world as a map of dangerous and deranged places. This was a world that was profoundly disordered, hobbled by tyranny and oppression or steeped in chaos and anarchy, often deadly, always uncertain, unpredictable, and unstable, yet amenable to American influence. Focusing on four representative arenas—the Ottoman Empire, China, India, and the Great South Sea (collectively, the East Indies, Oceana, and the American continent's Northwest coast)—Eastward of Good Hope recasts the relationship between America and the world by examining the early years of the republic, when its national character was particularly pliable and its foundational posture in the world was forming. Drawing on recent scholarship in global ethnohistory, Dane A. Morrison recounts how reports of cannibal encounters, shipboard massacres, shipwrecks, tropical fever, and other tragedies in distant seas led Americans to imagine each region as a distinct set of threats to their republic. He also demonstrates how the concept of justification through self-doubt allowed for aggressive expansionism and for the foundations of imperialism to develop. Morrison reconsiders American ideas about the world through three questions: How did British Americans imagine the world before independence allowed them to travel "Eastward of Good Hope"? What were the signal encounters that filled the public sphere in their early years of global encounter? And finally, how did Americans' contacts with other peoples inflect their ideas about the world and their place in it? Written in a lively, engaging style, Eastward of Good Hope will appeal to scholars and the general public alike.
Book Synopsis Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion by :
Download or read book Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles by : Nancy Shoemaker
Download or read book Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles written by Nancy Shoemaker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's founding. Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the "cannibal isles" of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self. Prior to British colonization in 1874, extraterritorial Americans had, she argues, as much impact on Fiji as did the British. While the American economy invested in the extraction of sandalwood and sea slugs as resources to sell in China, individuals who went to Fiji had more complicated, personal objectives. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles considers these motivations through the lives of the three Americans who left the deepest imprint on Fiji: a runaway whaleman who settled in the islands, a sea captain's wife, and a merchant. Shoemaker's book shows how ordinary Americans living or working overseas found unusual venues where they could show themselves worthy of others' respect—others' approval, admiration, or deference.
Book Synopsis The Sailor's Magazine, and Naval Journal by :
Download or read book The Sailor's Magazine, and Naval Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Etnologiska Studier by : Göteborgs etnografiska museum
Download or read book Etnologiska Studier written by Göteborgs etnografiska museum and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New York State Library [annual Report] by : New York State Library
Download or read book New York State Library [annual Report] written by New York State Library and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1889 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
Book Synopsis Historical Collections of the Danvers Historical Society by : Danvers Historical Society
Download or read book Historical Collections of the Danvers Historical Society written by Danvers Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "Necrology."
Download or read book Anonyms written by William Cushing and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Reports of the War Department by : United States. War Department
Download or read book Annual Reports of the War Department written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army by : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Download or read book Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 .
Book Synopsis Annual Reports of the Secretary of War by : United States. War Department
Download or read book Annual Reports of the Secretary of War written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report by : United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers
Download or read book Report written by United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Chief of Engineers by : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Download or read book Report of the Chief of Engineers written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: