In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories

by Nicholas Thomas

Book Overview

In this collection of essays, Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology, explores the historicization of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. Basing his claims on wide-ranging historical and ethnographic research and building on his celebrated studies of exchange and colonialism in the Pacific, Thomas describes how outsiders and islanders alike have constructed indigenous cultures over the last two hundred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822319985
• ISBN13: 9780822319986
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"