Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that explores the historicisation of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. It describes how outsiders and islanders alike have constructed indigenous cultures over the last two hundred years.
Trade Review"Nicholas Thomas can always be depended upon for lucid arguments that range over an impressive array of materials and engage current debates within and across the fields of anthropology, history, and cultural studies."—Robert J. Foster, University of Rochester
"Thomas makes a statement of major importance on the deep political and intellectual complexities involved in visually and verbally constructing histories and cultures. . . . Sophisticated, original, and compelling."—Don Brenneis, University of California at Santa Cruz
“These essays exemplify the very diversity of approaches to historical and contemporary Oceania that Thomas advocates. They are full of the level-headed insights that one has come to expect of Thomas, insights that are grounded in historical scholarship and that hone the cutting edge of current anthropology.” -- Margaret Rodman * American Ethnologist *
