Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought 9780824864484

Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents,

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Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought 9780824864484

Table of contents :
Contents
acknowledgments
Note on Texts
Introduction
1 .The Island as Eldorado and the South Sea Bubble
2 .The Noble Savage
3. “Dark Parts of the Earth” Th e Voyage of the Duff , 1796–1798
4. The Island as Crucible From Th e Great Chain of Being to Evolution
5. “How Many Adams Must We Admit?” Th e Varieties of Man
6 .The Island as Colony From Backwater to “Ocean of the Future”
7. Anthropometry, Ethnology, Relativism Th e Island for Anthropologists
8. The Colonial Interregnum and the Second World War
9. Disillusion From Noa Noa to the H-Bomb
Works Cited
index
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