Texts and Contexts: Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography 9780824842918
Texts and Contexts is concerned with the development of Pacific Islands history as a specialization in its own right. Sp
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
The Text in Its Context: An Introduction
Part I. General Regional
1. Fatal Choices? Morrell’s and Scarr’s Imperial Histories
2. On Douglas Oliver’s The Pacific Islands
3. Oskar Spate’s Trilogy
4. Where theWaves Fall—or, Playing the Generalist Game
Part II. Methodologies
5. Voyagers and Navigators: The Sharp-Lewis Debate
6. The Evolution of Marshall Sahlins
7. Revisioning the Pacific: Bernard Smith in the South Seas
8. More Celebrated than Read: TheWork of Norma McArthur
9. Two Pacific Biographies: Hubert Murray and Father Damien
Part III. Activities
10. The Missionary Position: Messengers of Grace and TheWorks of Ta’unga
11. Of Islands and Sandalwood: Shineberg, Maude, and the Hidden History of Trade
12. Unsettling New Zealand History: The Revisionism of Sinclair and Ward
13. Passage across the Sea: Indentured Labor to Fiji and from the Solomons
14. Trumpet and Road: Two Classic Cargo Texts
Part IV. Island Groups
15. Living in Archives and Dreams: The Histories of Kuykendall and Daws
16. On Hezel’s The First Taint of Civilization
17. On Greg Dening’s Islands and Beaches
18. Disentangling Samoan History: The Contributions of Gilson and Davidson
19. The Last Unknown: Gavin Souter and the Historiography of New Guinea
Contributors
Index
