Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875-1935 9780824874612

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Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875-1935
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Brenda Johnson Clay

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
A Note on Vocabulary
Introduction
1. Dispersions, 1875–1881
2. Accommodations and Refractions, 1901–1912
3. Mimetic Others, 1919–1921
4. Moral Neurasthenia or Functioning Tribal Society, 1929–1935
5. Gifts and Curios
6. Islander Responses: From Objects to Subjects
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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