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

Howe, Associate Professor Of History K R

9780824822866: Nature, Culture, and History: The "Knowing" of Oceania

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824822862 ISBN 13: 9780824822866

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 2000

This text places Oceania in a broad global and intellectual context and explores the meeting of two perceived entities - the west and Pacific peoples. It incorporates such diverse topics as notions of paradise, human destiny, technology, knowing, colonialism, racism, gender, and more.

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About the Author:

K. R. Howe is a major and longstanding contributor to Pacific history and historiography. The author of Where the Waves Fall: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century (1984) and coeditor of Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century (UH Press, 1994), Howe has a Personal Chair in History at Massey University's Albany Campus in Auckland, New Zealand.

Review:

"Howe echoes the experiences of many other historians in other fields when he concludes the voyage that Pacific historians embark upon is ultimately a voyage to the self, a self that is a cultural product. He has made his case well for history as culture."

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