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Mutiny and Aftermath : James Morrison's Account of the Mutiny on the Bounty and the Island of Tahiti / ed. by Vanessa Smith, Maia Nuku, Nicholas Thomas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) : 27 illus., 2 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824836764
  • 9780824839055
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910.91648 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Journal: Mutiny, Mutineers, Islanders -- 1. The Voyage and the Mutiny -- 2. The Occupation of Tubuai -- 3. Return to Tahiti -- 4. From Tahiti to England -- Part II. The Account: The Island of Tahiti -- 5. The Tahitian World -- 6. Tahitian Society, History, and Culture -- 7. Arts, Rites, and Customs -- Appendix I: Morrison's Polynesian Words and Terms -- Appendix II: Morrison's People -- Appendix III: Morrison's Place-names -- Appendix IV: Morrison's Plants -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors
Summary: The mutiny on the Bounty was one of the most controversial events of eighteenth-century maritime history. This book publishes a full and absorbing narrative of the events by one of the participants, the boatswain's mate James Morrison, who tells the story of the mounting tensions over the course of the voyage out to Tahiti, the fascinating encounter with Polynesian culture there, and the shocking drama of the event itself.In the aftermath, Morrison was among those who tried to make a new life on Tahiti. In doing so, he gained a deeper understanding of Polynesian culture than any European who went on to write about the people of the island and their way of life before it was changed forever by Christianity and colonial contact. Morrison was not a professional scientist but a keen observer with a lively sympathy for Islanders. This is the most insightful and wide-ranging of early European accounts of Tahitian life.Mutiny and Aftermath is the first scholarly edition of this classic of Pacific history and anthropology. It is based directly on a close study of Morrison's original manuscript, one of the treasures of the Mitchell Library in Sydney, Australia. The editors assess and explain Morrison's observations of Islander culture and social relations, both on Tubuai in the Austral Islands and on Tahiti itself. The book fully identifies the Tahitian people and places that Morrison refers to and makes this remarkable text accessible for the first time to all those interested in an extraordinary chapter of early Pacific history.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Journal: Mutiny, Mutineers, Islanders -- 1. The Voyage and the Mutiny -- 2. The Occupation of Tubuai -- 3. Return to Tahiti -- 4. From Tahiti to England -- Part II. The Account: The Island of Tahiti -- 5. The Tahitian World -- 6. Tahitian Society, History, and Culture -- 7. Arts, Rites, and Customs -- Appendix I: Morrison's Polynesian Words and Terms -- Appendix II: Morrison's People -- Appendix III: Morrison's Place-names -- Appendix IV: Morrison's Plants -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors

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The mutiny on the Bounty was one of the most controversial events of eighteenth-century maritime history. This book publishes a full and absorbing narrative of the events by one of the participants, the boatswain's mate James Morrison, who tells the story of the mounting tensions over the course of the voyage out to Tahiti, the fascinating encounter with Polynesian culture there, and the shocking drama of the event itself.In the aftermath, Morrison was among those who tried to make a new life on Tahiti. In doing so, he gained a deeper understanding of Polynesian culture than any European who went on to write about the people of the island and their way of life before it was changed forever by Christianity and colonial contact. Morrison was not a professional scientist but a keen observer with a lively sympathy for Islanders. This is the most insightful and wide-ranging of early European accounts of Tahitian life.Mutiny and Aftermath is the first scholarly edition of this classic of Pacific history and anthropology. It is based directly on a close study of Morrison's original manuscript, one of the treasures of the Mitchell Library in Sydney, Australia. The editors assess and explain Morrison's observations of Islander culture and social relations, both on Tubuai in the Austral Islands and on Tahiti itself. The book fully identifies the Tahitian people and places that Morrison refers to and makes this remarkable text accessible for the first time to all those interested in an extraordinary chapter of early Pacific history.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)