Across the Great Divide: Journeys in History and Anthropology

Across the Great Divide: Journeys in History and Anthropology
ISBN-10
9057023067
ISBN-13
9789057023064
Series
Across the Great Divide
Category
Social Science
Pages
382
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Author
Bronwen Douglas

Description

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.

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