Beach crossings : voyaging across times, cultures, and self
Greg Dening
Bok · Engelsk · 2004
| Utgitt | Philadelphia, Penn. : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2004
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| Omfang | IX, 376 s. : ill., kart
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| Opplysninger | Prologue : a most remarkable voyage ; Beginning ; Writing the beach ; Being there ; By sea to the beach ; Finding the land ; Encompassing the land ; The strangers come ; On the beach ; After beach ; Exiting. - Historian/anthropologist Greg Dening here revisits the island beaches of Oceania in an extended essay on first encounters and the peoples they brought together. An exploration of the symbolic strip where ocean meets island, Dening's meditation reflects upon the bloody history of the Marquesas in the South Pacific: its inhabitants and its combatants, the author's own time spent there and in study of his subject." "Dening reconstructs the first interactions between explorers, missionaries, and natives - mostly in the Marquesas, the primary focus of his scholarly work. He examines fictional accounts of these encounters as well as the written record, revisiting the experiences of Captain Bligh and Gauguin, Melville's seafarers as well as some famous castaways. Each featured beach crossing is prefaced with an introduction placing the encounter in its historical context
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| Emner | Crook, William Pascoe
Robarts, Edward Ethnohistory Ethnology - French Polynesia - Marquesas Islands Vis mer... oppdagelsesreiser antropologi lapita historie reiser
Marquesasøyene Stillehavet Oseania reiselitteratur |
| ISBN | 0-8122-3849-4
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