| Description |
xviii, 358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 24 |
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Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 24
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| Contents |
Prelude: Now Into Then: Disciplined Encounters -- 1. Rank, Power, Authority: A Reassessment of Traditional Leadership in South Pacific Societies -- 2. Ritual and Politics: The Inaugural Meeting of High Chiefs in New Caledonia -- Foreword: Apologia on Gender -- 3. 'Almost Constantly at War'? Ethnographic Perspectives on Indigenous Fighting in New Caledonia -- 4. Reading Indigenous Pasts: The 'Wagap Affair' of 1862 -- 5. Winning and Losing? Reflections on the War of 1878-79 in New Caledonia -- 6. Autonomous and Controlled Spirits: Indigenous Rituals and Encounters with Christianity in Melanesia -- 7. Dealing (With) Death in a Melanesian World: Indigenous Aetiologies and the 'Sickness of the Christians' -- 8. Power, Ritual and the Appropriation of God: Christianity and Subversion in Melanesia -- Finale: Whig in the Closet: Past Continuous, Future Perfect? |
| Summary |
Across the Great Divide tracks a Pacific historian's fruitful, ambivalent engagements with History and Anthropology, anticipating experiments in each discipline with the other's theories, and praxis. The revised and new essays comprising this collection provide systematic critiques of aspects of received scholarly wisdom about Oceania and are linked by reflexive commentaries addressing recent postcolonial concerns. A varied but coherent set of ethnographic and historical narratives about colonial encounters in Island Melanesia is informed by particular critical focus on the paradoxes and politics of knowing indigenous pasts through colonial texts |
| Notes |
CIP shows second subtitle as "selected essays, 1979-1994"--verso of t.p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-350) and index |
| Notes |
Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library |
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Signed by author 1 copy. ANU |
| Subject |
Christianity -- Melanesia.
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Ethnology -- Melanesia.
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Ethnology -- New Caledonia.
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Indigenous peoples -- Islands of the Pacific.
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Indigenous peoples -- Melanesia.
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| SUBJECT |
Melanesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083370 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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New Caledonia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035871 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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New Caledonia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91004771
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New Caledonia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035871 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
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| ISSN |
1055-2464 |
| ISBN |
9057023067 |
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