Texts and Contexts: Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2006

Texts and Contexts

Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography

Edited by: Doug Munro and Brij V. Lal

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824842918

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About this book

Texts and Contexts is concerned with the development of Pacific Islands history as a specialization in its own right. Specifically, this volume examines the foundational texts that pioneered and consolidated the new subdiscipline and served as the building blocks and stepping stone for further developments in the field. Thirty-five texts, all of which represent defining points in the development of Pacific Islands historiography, are examined.

Much more than retrospective appraisals of the foundational texts, the individual chapters consider a text or complimentary texts within the context of the time of writing and gauge what ongoing influence they exerted. In some cases they suggest how a particular text has been superseded by subsequent work that breaks new conceptual ground in the ongoing process of revisionism.

Contributors: Chris Ballard on Gavin Souter; Ivan Brady on Greg Dening; I. C. Campbell on Norma McArthur; Bronwen Douglas and Doug Munro on H. E. Maude and Dorothy Shineberg; Michael Goldsmith on Marshall Sahlins; David Hanlon on Francis X. Hezel; K. R. Howe on Andrew Sharp and David Lewis; Brij V.Lal on K. L. Gillion and Peter Corris; Hugh Laracy on Niel Gunson and Ta‘unga; Lamont Lindstrom on Peter Worsley and Peter Lawrence; Doug Munro on Douglas L. Oliver, R. P. Gilson, J. W. Davidson, and K. R. Howe; Vincent O’Malley on Keith Sinclair and Alan Ward; Jon Osorio on Ralph Kuykendall and Gavan Daws; Tom Ryan on Bernard Smith; Jane Samson on W. P. Morrell and Deryck Scarr; Francis West on Francis West and Gavan Daws; Glyndwr Williams on O. H. K. Spate.

Author / Editor information

Munro Doug :

Doug Munro is an adjunct professor at the University of Queensland and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.Lal Brij V. :

Brij Vilash Lal was professor emeritus of Pacific and Asian history at the Australian National University and adjunct professor of the University of Queensland, Australia.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
The Text in Its Context: An Introduction Brij V. Lal and Doug Munro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. General Regional
1. Fatal Choices? Morrell’s and Scarr’s Imperial Histories Jane Samson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. On Douglas Oliver’s The Pacific Islands Doug Munro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. Oskar Spate’s Trilogy Glyndwr Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
4. Where theWaves Fall—or, Playing the Generalist Game Doug Munro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Part II. Methodologies
5. Voyagers and Navigators: The Sharp-Lewis Debate K. R. Howe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
6. The Evolution of Marshall Sahlins Michael Goldsmith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
7. Revisioning the Pacific: Bernard Smith in the South Seas Tom Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
8. More Celebrated than Read: TheWork of Norma McArthur I. C. Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
9. Two Pacific Biographies: Hubert Murray and Father Damien Francis West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Part III. Activities
10. The Missionary Position: Messengers of Grace and TheWorks of Ta’unga Hugh Laracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
11. Of Islands and Sandalwood: Shineberg, Maude, and the Hidden History of Trade Bronwen Douglas and Doug Munro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
12. Unsettling New Zealand History: The Revisionism of Sinclair and Ward Vincent O’Malley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
13. Passage across the Sea: Indentured Labor to Fiji and from the Solomons Brij V. Lal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
14. Trumpet and Road: Two Classic Cargo Texts Lamont Lindstrom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Part IV. Island Groups
15. Living in Archives and Dreams: The Histories of Kuykendall and Daws Jonathan K. Osorio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
16. On Hezel’s The First Taint of Civilization David Hanlon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
17. On Greg Dening’s Islands and Beaches Ivan Brady Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
18. Disentangling Samoan History: The Contributions of Gilson and Davidson Doug Munro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
19. The Last Unknown: Gavin Souter and the Historiography of New Guinea Chris Ballard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272

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Published: November 30, 2005
ISBN: 9780824842918