In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories

By Nicholas Thomas

Book Overview

Australian scholar Nicholas Thomas documents and analyzes "rhetorical artifacts" of explorers, missionaries, fiction and travel writers, and the people of the Pacific themselves to demonstrate how Oceanic identities have been represented over time. The picture Thomas paints of Oceania shows that interactions between indigenous cultures and European influences created entirely new Oceanic identities. 62 illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822320029
• ISBN13: 9780822320029
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"