Nature, Culture, and History : : The 'Knowing' of Oceania / / K. R. Howe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Howe, K. R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (136 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Nature as Culture --; Chapter 2. Culture as Nature --; Chapter 3. History as Culture --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824863722; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824863722
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: K. R. Howe.

Explores the changing ways in which Pacific Islanders have been seen and represented by outsiders over the last 200 years. The Pacific Islands has been a testing ground for various Western ideas and ideologies and the author looks at this long intellectual history as an artifact of the Western imagination. Of particular concern is to see how concepts of nature, culture and history have defined Western perceptions of Pacific Islanders.