Voyages and Beaches : Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840

by Calder, Alex; Lamb, Jonathan; Orr, Bridget; David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar 1993 (University of Auckland)

• ISBN13: 9780824820398
• ISBN10: 0824820398
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Author Biography

Alex Calder is senior lecturer in the English Department of the University of Auckland. He is the editor of a non-fiction anthology, The Writing of New Zealand: Inventions and Identities, and has published many essays on American, New Zealand, and Pacific literature. Jonathan Lamb taught for many years at the University of Auckland and is now professor of eighteenth-century literature at Princeton University. He is the author of Sterne's Fiction and the Double Principle and The Rhetoric of Suffering and the editor of European Voyages in the South Pacific, a special volume of Eighteenth-Century Life. Bridget Orr taught in the English Department of the University of Auckland and is now assistant professor of English at Fordham University. She has published essays on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and edited The Pacific Eighteenth Century, a special issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Postcoloniality and the Pacific	1	(24)
Alex Calder
Jonathan Lamb
Bridget Orr
Nature and History, Self and Other: European Perceptions of World History in the Age of Encounter	25	(20)
J.G.A. Pocock
South Pacific Mythology	45	(10)
`I.F. Helu
The Postmodern Legacy of a Premodern Warrior Goddess in Modern Samoa	55	(6)
Malama Meleisea
Myth and History	61	(28)
`Okusitino Mahina
A History Lesson: Captain Cook Finds Himself in the State of Nature	89	(11)
Stephen Turner
Myth, Science, and Experience in the British Construction of the Pacific	100	(14)
David Mackay
A Tribal Encounter: The Presence and Properties of Common-Law Language in the Discourse of Colonization in the Early Modern Period	114	(18)
P. G. McHugh
Liberty and License: The Forster's Accounts of New Zealand Sociality	132	(24)
Nicholas Thomas
Early Contact Ethnography and Understanding: An Evaluation of the Cook Expeditionary Accounts of the Grass Cove Conflict	156	(24)
Ian G. Barber
My Musket, My Missionary, and My Mana	180	(22)
Pat Hohepa
Enlightenment Anthropology and the Ancestral Remains of Australian Aboriginal People	202	(24)
Paul Turnbull
Missionaries on Tahiti, 1797-1840	226	(15)
Rod Edmond
Augustus Earle's The Meeting of the Artist and the Wounded Chief Hongi, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 1827 and His Depictions of Other New Zealand Encounters: Contexts and Connections	241	(24)
Leonard Bell
Categorical Weavings: European Representations of the Architecture of Hakari	265	(20)
Sarah Treadwell
Pacific Colonialism and the Formation of Literary Culture	285	(19)
Simon During
The Canon on the Beach: H. T. Kemp Translating Robinson Crusoe and The Pilgrim's Progress	304	(13)
Mark Houlahan
Tuku Whenua and Land Sale in New Zealand in the Nineteenth Century	317	(12)
Margaret Mutu
Contributors	329	(4)
Index	333