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Cook & Omai : the cult of the South Seas / [curated by Michelle Hetherington].
- Title
- Cook & Omai : the cult of the South Seas / [curated by Michelle Hetherington].
- Publication
- Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2001.
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- Description
- v, 66 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- In 1774, the first Polynesian to visit London travelled to England with the crew of Captain Cook's second Pacific voyage and became an overnight sensation. Seen as a living example of the 'Noble Savage', Omai as he was known, was discussed by scientists and philosophers, celebrated in all the best circles and written about in everything from poetry to pornography. He proved a lightning rod for European anxieties regarding imperialism, civilisation and the true nature of mankind. The artistic and literary legacy of Omai's encounter with Europe provides a fascinating insight into European culture in a moment of transition, when old certainties were collapsing and new ones were yet to form. Cook & Omai: The Cult of the South Seas has been developed by the National Library of Australia in association with the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University.
- Alternative Title
- Cook and Omai
- Subject
- Omai > Travel > England > Exhibitions
- Omai
- Cook, James, 1728-1779
- Omai, 18e E
- Omai > Voyages > Catalogues d'exposition
- Cook, James, (1728-1779) > Voyages > Catalogues d'exposition
- National Library of Australia > Exhibitions
- National Library of Australia
- Pacific Islanders > First contact with other peoples > Exhibitions
- Pacific Islanders > Cultural assimilation > Exhibitions
- Pacific Islanders in art > Exhibitions
- Océaniens > Acculturation > Expositions
- 15.90 history of Australia and Oceania
- 73.57 cult, rites (ethnology)
- Manners and customs
- Pacific Islanders > First contact with other peoples
- Pacific Islanders in art
- Travel
- Kunst
- Edler Wilder
- Literatur
- Expedities
- Cultus
- Voyages autour du monde > 18e siècle > Catalogues d'exposition
- Autochtones > Premiers contacts avec les Occidentaux > Catalogues d'exposition. > Pacifique (région)
- Iwi taketake
- England > Description and travel > Exhibitions
- Oceania > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
- Angleterre > Descriptions et voyages > Expositions
- Océanie > Mœurs et coutumes > Expositions
- England
- Oceania
- Pacifique (région) > Dans l'art > Catalogues d'exposition
- Ozeanien <Motiv>
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Note
- This book presents a collection of essays and catalogue of the exhibition Cook & Omai: the cult of the South Seas, by the National Library of Australia in association with the Humanities Research Centre, the Australian National University.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The cult of the south seas / Michelle Hetherington -- Spectacles of knowledge: OMAI as ethnographic travelogue / Iain McCalman -- Comedy in the OMAI pantomime / Christa Knellwolf -- Images of Mai / Caroline Turner -- Omai's things / Harriet Guest -- The art of ventriloquism: European imagination and the Pacific / Alexander Cook -- Mai, the other beyond the exotic stranger / Paul Turnbull -- O Mai! This is Mai: a masque of a sort / Greg Dening.
- ISBN
- 0642107319
- 9780642107312
- LCCN
- 2001430903
- OCLC
- 47198399
- SCSB-12182952
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library