Nicholas Thomas, Richard Eves

Bad Colonists

The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke

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Produktbeschreibung

"The presentation of these two sets of letters is first-rate. Nothing less would be expected of a project in which Nicholas Thomas--a leading figure in the fields of anthropology and history--is involved."--George E. Marcus, Rice University

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780822322573
• ISBN-10: 0822322579
• Artikelnr.: 42990281

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Thomas is Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. His books include In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories, also published by Duke University Press. Richard Eves is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, also at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Magical Body: Power, Fame, and Meaning in a Melanesian Society.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations xix
Preface xxi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction: Letter Writing and Colonial Selfhood 1
1. " An Awfully bad Hand at Letter Writing": Vernon Lee Walker and Colonial
History 9
2. The Letters of Vernon Lee Walker, 1878-1887 19
3. Self-Fashioning and Savagery: Louis Becke's Pacific Letters 77
4. The Letters of Louis Becke, 188-1882 91
5. The Apotheosis of Savagery: Louis Becke's Pacific Tales 129
Epilogue: Figures in History 146
Notes 149
Bibliography 155
Index 161