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Nature, Culture, and History : The 'Knowing' of Oceania / K. R. Howe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (136 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824822866
  • 9780824863722
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 995 21
LOC classification:
  • DU17
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Nature as Culture -- Chapter 2. Culture as Nature -- Chapter 3. History as Culture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: Explores the changing ways in which Pacific Islanders have been seen and represented by outsiders over the last 200 years. The Pacific Islands has been a testing ground for various Western ideas and ideologies and the author looks at this long intellectual history as an artifact of the Western imagination. Of particular concern is to see how concepts of nature, culture and history have defined Western perceptions of Pacific Islanders.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780824863722

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Nature as Culture -- Chapter 2. Culture as Nature -- Chapter 3. History as Culture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

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Explores the changing ways in which Pacific Islanders have been seen and represented by outsiders over the last 200 years. The Pacific Islands has been a testing ground for various Western ideas and ideologies and the author looks at this long intellectual history as an artifact of the Western imagination. Of particular concern is to see how concepts of nature, culture and history have defined Western perceptions of Pacific Islanders.

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)