Sujet
Ethnology -- Melanesia. , Indigenous peoples -- Melanesia., Ethnology -- New Caledonia., Melanesia -- History., New Caledonia -- History., New Caledonia -- Social conditions., New Caledonia -- Politics and government.

Domaines
Anthropologie, Histoire

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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Langue
English (en-GB)

Auteurs
Douglas, Bronwen

Contributeurs

Sources
Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 24., ISBN: 90-5702-306-7

Relation
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2849546

Couverture
OCEANIE

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