Author: Arthur Bache WalkomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Report of the Twenty-first Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: Arthur Bache WalkomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Report of the Twenty-first Meeting Ot the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Sydney Meeting, August 1932
Author: ANZAAS. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Reinvention of Australasian Biogeography
Author: Malte C. EbachPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486304842
Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The story of the evolution of biogeographical practice in Australasia
Risky Shores
Author: George BehlmerPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503605957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
“In sparkling, seamless prose, Risky Shores offers fresh insights into the cultural encounters between the British and the Melanesians.” —Dane Kennedy, author of Decolonization Why did the so-called “Cannibal Isles” of the Western Pacific fascinate Europeans for so long? Spanning three centuries—from Captain James Cook’s death on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 to the end of World War II in 1945—this book considers the category of “the savage” in the context of British Empire in the Western Pacific, reassessing the conduct of Islanders and the English-speaking strangers who encountered them. Sensationalized depictions of Melanesian “savages” as cannibals and headhunters created a unifying sense of Britishness during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These exotic people inhabited the edges of empire—and precisely because they did, Britons who never had and never would leave the home islands could imagine their nation’s imperial reach. George Behlmer argues that Britain’s early visitors to the Pacific—mainly cartographers and missionaries—wielded the notion of savagery to justify their own interests. But savage talk was not simply a way to objectify and marginalize native populations: it would later serve also to emphasize the fragility of indigenous cultures. Behlmer by turns considers cannibalism, headhunting, missionary activity, the labor trade, and Westerners’ preoccupation with the perceived “primitiveness” of indigenous cultures, arguing that British representations of savagery were not merely straightforward expressions of colonial power, but also belied home-grown fears of social disorder. “A wonderful book: beautifully researched, compellingly written, and vitally important to debates about race relations and agency in the Pacific world . . . The result is an intellectual feast.” —Jane Samson, author of Race and Redemption
Anthropology in Use
Author: John Van WilligenPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780913178669
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Transpacific Visions
Author: Yasuko Hassall KobayashiPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793621330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book argues that transpacific history cannot be comprehended without including “vertical” connections; namely, those between the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere. It explores such connections by uncovering small histories of ordinary people’s attempts at événements which they undertake by means of uneven, unlevel, and multidirectional mobilities. In this way, this book goes beyond the usual notion of transpacific history as a matter of Northern Hemisphere-centric connections between the United States and Asian countries, and enables us to imagine a transpacific space as a more dynamic and multi-faceted world of human mobilities and connections. In this book, both eminent and burgeoning historians uncover the stories of little-known, myriad encounters in various parts of the Asia-Pacific region. By exploring cases whose actors include soldiers, missionaries, colonial administrators, journalists, essayists, and artists, the book highlights the significance of "vertical" perspectives in understanding complex histories of the region.
Prosthetic Gods
Author: Robert DixonPublisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702232701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Entomology Current Literature
Author: Report of the ... Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: ANZAAS (Association). MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Bunyips
Author: Robert HoldenPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642107329
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Robert Holden enters the bunyips lair to reveal the fascinating literature, folklore and superstitions that have immortalised Australia's most enigmatic creature. Bunyips includes extracts from Australian stories about bunyips, featuring work by Edel Wignell, Rosa Campbell Praed, Catherine Stow, Dal Stivens and others.