Postcards from Oceania
Subtitle: port towns, portraits and the picturesque during the colonial era
By: Max Quanchi, Max Shekleton
Publisher: University of the South Pacific Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Suva, Fiji
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9789820109414
Subjects: Colonies; History; Postcards; Pictorial works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: Seeking the imagined and actual in Oceania postcards; title: Postcard craze; title: Picturesque; title: Portraits: nymphs, types and stereotypes; title: Grass huts, cases, bure and village life; title: Case study: Vanuatu; title: Kastom: culture and tradition; title: Case study: Vanuatu; title: Colonial experience; title: Case study: The French in New Caledonia; title: Appendices; title: Photographers noted on postcards; title: Colonial powers 1898-1930; title: Glossary of indigenous words.