Nature, Culture, and History: The "Knowing" of Oceania

Explores the changing ways in which Pacific Islanders have been seen and represented by outsiders over the last 200 years. The Pacific Islands has been a testing ground for various Western ideas and ideologies and the author looks at this long intellectual history as an artifact of the Western imagination. Of particular concern is to see how concepts of nature, culture and history have defined Western perceptions of Pacific Islanders.

History

Howe, Professor K. R.

Australia & Oceania

University of Hawaii Press

Did they come from space, from Egypt, from the Americas? From other ancient civilizations? These are some of today's most fanciful claims about the first settlers of the islands of the Pacific. But none of them correctly answer the question: Where did the Polynesians come from? This book is a thoughtful and devastating critique of such "new" learning, and a careful and accessible survey of modern archaeological, anthropological, genetic, and linguistics findings about the origins of Pacific Islanders. Professor Howe also examines the two-hundred-year-old history of Western ideas about Polynesian origins in the context of ever-changing fads and intellectual fashions.

The Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled the Pacific Islands?

Ancient Civilizations

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Nature, Culture, and History: The "Knowing" of Oceania

The Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled the Pacific Islands?