Voyages and Beaches : : Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840 / / ed. by Alex Calder, Bridget Orr, Jonathan Lamb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Barber, Ian G.,; Bell, Leonard,; Calder, Alex,; During, Simon,; Edmond, Rod,; Helu, ‘I. F.,; Hohepa, Pat,; Houlahan, Mark,; Lamb, Jonathan,; Mackay, David,; McHugh, P. G.,; Meleisea, Malama,; Mutu, Margaret,; Māhina, Okusitino,; Orr, Bridget,; Pocock, J.G.A.,; Thomas, Nicholas,; Treadwell, Sarah,; Turnbull, Paul,; Turner, Stephen,
• HerausgeberIn: Calder, Alex,; Lamb, Jonathan,; Orr, Bridget,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; 1. Introduction: Postcoloniality and the Pacific --; 2. Nature and History, Self and Other: European Perceptions of World History in the Age of Encounter --; 3. South Pacific Mythology --; 4. The Postmodern Legacy of a Premodern Warrior Goddess in Modern Samoa --; 5. Myth and History --; 6. A History Lesson: Captain Cook Finds Himself in the State of Nature --; 7. Myth, Science, and Experience in the British Construction of the Pacific --; 8. A Tribal Encounter: The Presence and Properties of Common-Law Language in the Discourse of Colonization in the Early Modern Period --; 9. Liberty and License: The Forsters’ Accounts of New Zealand Sociality --; 10. Early Contact Ethnography and Understanding: An Evaluation of the Cook Expeditionary Accounts of the Grass Cove Conflict --; 11. My Musket, My Missionary, and My Mana --; 12. Enlightenment Anthropology and the Ancestral Remains of Australian Aboriginal People --; 13. Missionaries on Tahiti, 1797–1840 --; 14. Augustus Earle’s The Meeting of the Artist and the Wounded Chief Hongi, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 1827 and His Depictions of Other New Zealand Encounters: Contexts and Connections --; 15. Categorical Weavings: European Representations of the Architecture of Hakari --; 16. Pacific Colonialism and the Formation of Literary Culture --; 17. The Canon on the Beach: H. T. Kemp Translating Robinson Crusoe and The Pilgrim’s Progress --; 18. Tuku Whenua and Land Sale in New Zealand in the Nineteenth Century --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824865511; 9783110564150
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824865511
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Alex Calder, Bridget Orr, Jonathan Lamb.

What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literary criticism, law, cultural studies, art history, Pacific Studies), they show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by such homogenizing metropolitan myths as the introduction of civilization to savage peoples, the general ruin of indigenous cultures by an imperial juggernaut, or the mimicry of European models by an abject population. They examine contact from both sides of beaches throughout Polynesia, exposing the many inconsistencies from which Pacific history is made. Some of the essays consider the extent to which traditional European ideas about organizing and legitimizing claims to territory and power were invoked and problematized in the South Pacific; some consider the violence endemic in such scenes; others examine the aesthetic discourses with which early travelers and settlers attempted to make sense of the Pacific in the aftermath of "discovery." But rather than reiterate the myths and anti-myths of conquest, these essays show how local differences have made and do make a difference. They emphasize the Pacific's capacity to absorb and transform the impact of Europe, an impact that has been as notable for its ambivalence and confusion as for its single-minded pursuit of hegemony. The editors develop these themes in a wide-ranging introduction that relates Pacific concerns to a more global set of theoretical and methodological problems, including current work in post-colonial and subaltern studies.