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Across the great divide : journeys in history and anthropology
- Title
- Across the great divide : journeys in history and anthropology / Bronwen Douglas.
- Author
- Douglas, Bronwen.
- Publication
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Harwood Academic, 1998.
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 358 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Studies in anthropology and history, 1055-2464 ; v. 24
- Uniform Title
- Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 24.
- Subject
- Christianity > Melanesia
- Ethnology > Melanesia
- Ethnology > New Caledonia
- 15.90 history of Australia and Oceania
- Ethnology
- Christianity
- Colonial influence
- Manners and customs
- Politics and government
- Leiderschap
- Geweld
- Christendom
- Iwi taketake
- New Caledonia > History
- New Caledonia > Politics and government
- New Caledonia > Social life and customs
- Melanesia > Colonial influence
- Melanesia > History
- Melanesia
- New Caledonia
- Océanie > Civilisation
- Genre/Form
- History
- History (form)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-350) and index.
- Contents
- Now into then: disciplined encounters -- Pt.1. Leadership. Rank, power, authority: a reassessment of traditional leadership in south Pacific societies. Ritual and politics: the inaugural meeting of high chiefs in New Caledonia -- Pt.2. Fighting. Apologia on gender. Almost constantly at war?: ethnographic perspectives on indigenous fighting in New Caledonia. Reading indigenous pasts: the Wagap Affair of 1862. Winning and losing?: reflections on the war of 1878-79 in New Caledonia -- Pt.3. Encountering Christianity. Autonomous and controlled spirits: indigenous rituals and encounters with Christianity in Melanesia. Dealing (with) death in a Melanesian world: indigenous aetiologies and the 'sickness of the Christians'. Power, ritual and the appropriation of God: Christianity and subversion in Melanesia. Whig in the closet: past continuous, future perfect?
- Maori leadership. In: Rank, power, authority: a reassessment of traditional leadership in South Pacific societies.
- ISBN
- 9057023067
- 9789057023064
- OCLC
- ocm41208469
- 41208469
- SCSB-570834
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library