Voyages and beaches : Pacific encounters, 1769-1840 /
Calder, Alex.
Lamb, Jonathan,1945-
Orr, Bridget.
David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar(9th :1993 :University of Auckland)
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press,
c1999.
Papers presented at the 9th David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, University of Auckland, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : postcoloniality and the Pacific / Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb and Bridget Orr -- Nature and history, self and other : European perceptions of world history in the age of encounter / J.G.A. Pocock -- South Pacific mythology / 'I.F. Helu -- The postmodern legacy of a premodern warrior goddess in modern Samoa / Malama Meleisea -- Myth and history / 'Okusitino Māhina -- A history lesson : Captain Cook finds himself in the state of nature / Stephen Turner -- Myth, science and experience in the British construction of the Pacific / David Mackay -- A tribal encounter : the presence and properties of common-law language in the discourse of colonization in the early modern period / P.G. McHugh -- Liberty and license : the Forsters' accounts of New Zealand sociality / Nicholas Thomas -- Early contact ethnography and understanding : an evaluation of the Cook expeditionary accounts of the Grass Cove conflict / Ian G. Barber -- My musket, my missionary and my Mana / Pat Hohepa -- Englightenment anthropology and the ancestral remains of Australian aboriginal people / Paul Turnbull -- Missionaries on Tahiti, 1797-1840 / Rod Edmond -- Augustus Earle's The meeting of the artiest and the wounded Chief Hongi, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 1827 and his depictions of other New Zealand encounters : contexts and connections / Leonard Bell -- Categorical weavings : European representations of the architecture of Hakari / Sarah Treadwell -- Pacific colonialism and the formation of literary culture / Simon During -- The canon on the beach : H. T. Kemp translating Robinson Crusoe and The pilgrim's progress / Mark Houlahan -- Tuku Whenua and land sale in New Zealand in the nineteenth century / Margaret Mutu.