South seas encounters : nineteenth-century Oceania, Britain, and America
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South seas encounters : nineteenth-century Oceania, Britain, and America
(Nineteenth century series)
Routledge, 2018
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South seas encounters : 19th-century Oceania, Britain, and America
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers on the cultures of the Pacific, but the effect of those cultures on the Western cultural perceptions of themselves and the wider world, including understanding encounters and exchanges in ways which do not underemphasize the agency and consequences for all participating parties. The essays also provide insights into the causes, unfolding, and consequences for both sides of a series of significant ethnographic, political, cultural, scientific, educational, and social encounters.
This volume makes a significant contribution to increasing scholarly interest in Oceania's place in British and American nineteenth-century cultural experiences. South Seas Encounters investigates these significant interactions and how they changed the ways that Oceanic, British, and American cultures reflected on themselves and their place in the wider world.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
List of Illustrations
Part One: Ethnographic Encounters
Chapter One: "The Natives Have a Decided Feeling for Form:" A. C. Haddon, the Torres Strait(s) Expedition, and the Question of Primitive Art
Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Chapter Two: Macabre Encounters: Poisoned Arrows and Poisoned Ethnographies from Victorian Melanesia
Jane Samson, University of Alberta
Part Two: Hawai`i and the British Empire
Chapter Three: A Meeting of "Sister Sovereigns:" Hawaiian Royalty at Victoria's Golden Jubilee
Lindsay Puawehiwa Wilhelm, University of California, Los Angeles
Chapter Four: At Home with the Victorians? The Kingdom of Hawai`i at the London Fisheries Exhibition, 1883
Peter H. Hoffenberg, University of Hawai`i, Manoa
Chapter Five: Robert Louis Stevenson's Grass Hut in Hawai`i
Richard J. Hill, Chaminade University
Chapter Six: Lad O' Pairts in Paradise: A Scottish Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom of Hawai`i
Bud (Duane) Clark, University of Hawai`i, Maui College
Part Three: Hawai`i and the American Republic
Chapter Seven: Ernest Hogan's Colored All-Stars Minstrel Show: A case of racial discrimination in the Republic of Hawai`i
Allison Paynter, Chaminade University
Chapter Eight: Emancipation, Education and Hampton's Southern Workman: Hawai'i, the Reconstruction South and Indian Territory
Teresa Zackodnik, University of Alberta
Part Four: Science Encounters
Chapter Nine: The Malay Archipelago and the Poetics of Nature
Alexis Harley, La Trobe University
Chapter Ten: Constance Gordon-Cumming and the Boring Volcano: Victorian Conceptions of Kilauea
Kent Linthicum, Oklahoma State University
Chapter Eleven: Nineteenth-Century Cultural and Geohistorical Interpretations of Kilauea
Philip K. Wilson, Retired History Department Chair, Current Bookstore Proprietor
Brief Biographies of Contributors
Index
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