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Author Dening, Greg.

Title Beach crossings : voyaging across times, cultures and self / Greg Dening
Published Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2004

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 W'PONDS  910.9164 Den/Bcv  DUE 16-12-23
Description ix, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Series Miegunyah volumes second series ; 53
Miegunyah Press series. Series 2 ; no. 53
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations ix -- Prologue: A Most Remarkable Voyage I -- Beginning II -- 1 Writing the Beach 23 -- Crossings: Voyaging into Deep Time 44 -- 2 Being There 55 -- Crossings: An Archaeology of Believing 99 -- 3 By Sea to the Beach 113 -- Crossings: An Archaeology of Learning 136 -- 4 Finding the Land 149 -- Crossings: Way-finding 167 -- 5 Encompassing the Land 185 -- Crossings: 'Ethnogging' 224 -- 6 The Strangers Come 235 -- Crossings: 'Remember me?' 258 -- 7 On the Beach 269 -- Crossings: Performing 316 -- -- After Beach 331 -- Exiting 345 -- Notes on Selected Issues 347 -- Acknowledgements 359 -- Glossary 363 -- Conversions 364 -- Index of Places 365 -- Index of Persons and Peoples 368 -- Index of Subjects 373
Summary Acclaimed ethnohistorian Greg Dening revisits the bloody history of the Marquesas and other Islands in Oceania to craft an extended essay on human change and transition. Beach Crossings is part memoir, part history, and part imaginative exploration of the symbolic strip of land where ocean meets beach
Notes Includes index
"The Miegunyah Press"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Signed by author 1 copy. ANU
Subject Crook, William Pascoe, 1775-1846.
Robarts, Edward.
Navigation -- Oceania.
Indigenous peoples -- Oceania.
Ethnology -- French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands.
Ethnohistory -- French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands.
SUBJECT Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96047454 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278
Oceania -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116418
Oceania -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093911
Oceania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116422
Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96047454 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96047454 -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002238
Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96047454 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
Genre/Form History.
LC no. 2004463542
ISBN 0522848869 :