Nature, culture, and history
Subtitle: the "knowing" of Oceania
By: K.R. Howe.
Publisher: University of Hawaií Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Oceania.
Description: This text places Oceania in a broad global and intellectual context and explores the meeting of two perceived entities - the west and Pacific peoples. It incorporates such diverse topics as notions of paradise, human destiny, technology, "knowing", colonialism, racism, gender, and more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-115) and index.
Rev. and extended versions of the three lectures presented at Massey University, Palmerston North and Albany campuses, in 1997, as the "Macmillan Brown lectures," organized by the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Nature as culture; title: Culture as nature; title: History as culture.