Research Catalog

Title

Dangerous liaisons : essays in honour of Greg Dening / edited by Donna Merwick.

Publication

Parkville, Vic. History Dept., University of Melbourne, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dening, Greg.
• Dening, Donna Merwick, 1932-
• University of Melbourne. History Department.

Description

412 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Melbourne University history monograph ; 19

Uniform Title

Melbourne University history monograph series ; no. 19.

Subject

• Dening, Greg
• University of Melbourne. History Department > Employees > Biography
• Anthropology
• History
• Historiography
• History > Philosophy
• Historians > Australia > Biography
• Islands of the Pacific > Historiography
• Islands of the Pacific > Discovery and exploration

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-412).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

History's poetics: an interview with Greg Dening / Ivan Brady -- Nokwai: sacrifice to empire / Ron Adams -- The discovery of the true savage / Marshall Sahlins -- Explorers and geographers: an uneasy alliance in the eighteenth-century exploration of the Pacific / Glyndwyr Williams -- The work of the trickster in the Dutch possession of New Netherland / Donna Merwick -- Remaking Micronesia: a reflection on the cultural and strategic politics of economic development in American Micronesia 1945-1968 / David Hanlon -- The subjects of law and dialogical narratives: reading Bengali widows' testimonies of suffering / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Towards a polysemic hermeneutics of Tahitian excretory ritual / Douglas Oliver -- Desiring land in gold-rush Victoria / David Goodman -- Tahiti, the Bounty mutiny and the English romantic poets / Alan Frost -- Fashioning new worlds from old fathers: reflections on Saturn, Amerindians and witches in a sixteenth-century print / Charles Zika -- The muses of time past and time passing / James Fernandez -- Power and meaning: event and text: history and anthropology / Rhys Isaac -- Incomplete histories and histories of the incomplete / Robert Borofsky -- The broken lineage of Australian family history / Graeme Davison -- Discourses on death in a Melanesian world / Bronwen Douglas -- Meatworkers' memories: the mnemonics of the nose / Chris Healy -- Customary land holdings in Tonga after the 1875 constitution / Elizabeth Wood Ellem -- On reflective history: Victorian skulduggery, past and present / Tom Griffiths.

ISBN

0732506077

OCLC

• 38332409
• SCSB-12830498

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library