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