Description
| Product ID: | 9781032340395 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Studies in Anthropology and History |
| Title: | Across the Great Divide |
| Subtitle: | Journeys in History and Anthropology |
| Authors: | Author: Bronwen Douglas |
| Page Count: | 380 |
| Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, Australasian and Pacific history, History, Society and culture: general, Anthropology, Australasian & Pacific history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Society & culture: general, Anthropology, Australasia, Oceania & other land areas, South Pacific |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-13 |
