Across the Great Divide - Journeys in History and Anthropology

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.

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Across the Great Divide: Journeys in History and Anthropology

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Bronwen Douglas

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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.

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• Autori: Bronwen Douglas, Douglas Bronwen
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 16.09.1998
• EAN: 9789057023064
• ISBN: 978-90-5702-306-4
• Pagine: 376
• Peso: 860 g
• Serie: Studies in Anthropology and History
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Anthropology, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, General and world history