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Author : William Endicott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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:
Author : William Endicott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
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 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Endicott was shipwrecked while on a trading voyage, and was rescued by the whaler Braganza. Includes a brief mention of whaling' -- Supplier's catalogue.
Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520938311
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (383 download)
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."
Author : Andrew Thornley
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820203747
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book A Shaking of the Land written by Andrew Thornley and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2005 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521629089
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Cannibalism and the Colonial World written by Francis Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cannibalism and the Colonial World, published in 1998, an international team of specialists from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, literature, art history - discusses the historical and cultural significance of western fascination with the topic of cannibalism. Addressing the image as it appears in a series of texts - popular culture, film, literature, travel writing and anthropology - the essays range from classical times to contemporary critical discourse. Cannibalism and the Colonial World examines western fascination with the figure of the cannibal and how this has impacted on the representation of the non-western world. This group of literary and anthropological scholars analyses the way cannibalism continues to exist as a term within colonial discourse and places the discussion of cannibalism in the context of postcolonial and cultural studies.
Author : Thomas Williams
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382174235
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Fiji and the Fijians; Missionary Labours Among the Cannibals written by Thomas Williams and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-09 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Essex Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Essex Institute written by Essex Institute and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Shoemaker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501740369
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
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.
Author : Minneapolis Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Community Bookshelf written by Minneapolis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mariam Pirbhai
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802099645
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture written by Mariam Pirbhai and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirbhai uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the development of novel-length fiction by writers of the South Asian diaspora in national contexts as diverse as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, and Fiji.
Author : Jason W. Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469640457
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book To Master the Boundless Sea written by Jason W. Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context. By recasting and deepening our understanding of the U.S. Navy and the United States at sea, Smith brings to the fore the overlooked work of naval hydrographers, surveyors, and cartographers. In the nautical chart's soundings, names, symbols, and embedded narratives, Smith recounts the largely untold story of a young nation looking to extend its power over the boundless sea.
Author : AnaMaria d’Aubert; Patrick D. Nunn
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469170094
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Furious Winds and Parched Islands written by AnaMaria d’Aubert; Patrick D. Nunn and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern understanding of climate extremes in the vast Pacific Ocean has been hampered by an incomplete picture of the incidence of such extremes in the past. For the first time in this book is given a largely complete account of extreme events – tropical cyclones (hurricanes) and droughts – culled from a myriad of sources, ranging from whalers’ logs to missionary diaries, as far back in time as written records extend. This book is an essential reference for anyone interested in the nature and recurrence times of climate extremes in the Pacific Ocean. It also provides fascinating insights into the historical impacts of extreme events on often highly vulnerable island populations and livelihoods and, in doing so, underscores their continuing vulnerability as they confront 21st-century climate change.
Author : Albion W. Small
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The American Journal of Sociology written by Albion W. Small and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Lyons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134264143
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book American Pacificism written by Paul Lyons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians from the nineteenth century to the present, argues that imperial fantasies have glossed over a complex, violent history. It introduces the concept of ‘American Pacificism’, a theoretical framework that draws on contemporary theories of friendship, hospitality and tourism to refigure established debates around ‘orientalism’ for an Oceanian context. Paul Lyons explores American-Islander relations and traces the ways in which two fundamental conceptions of Oceania have been entwined in the American imagination. On the one hand, the Pacific islands are seen as economic and geopolitical ‘stepping stones’, rather than ends in themselves, whilst on the other they are viewed as ends of the earth or ‘cultural limits’, unencumbered by notions of sin, antitheses to the industrial worlds of economic and political modernity. However, both conceptions obscure not only Islander cultures, but also innovative responses to incursion. The islands instead emerge in relation to American national identity, as places for scientific discovery, soul-saving and civilizing missions, manhood-testing adventure, nuclear testing and eroticized furloughs between maritime work and warfare. Ranging from first contact and the colonial archive through to postcolonialism and global tourism, this thought-provoking volume draws upon a wide, rewarding collection of literary works, historical and cultural scholarship, government documents and tourist literature.
Author : New Rochelle Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the New Rochelle Public Library written by New Rochelle Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Salem Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by Salem Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California State Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book News Notes of California Libraries written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
