Europeans' romanticist imaginings of people from the South Pacific have been around since the Enlightenment and have been significantly informed by the accounts of voyages to Tahiti by people such as Louis Bougainville. This book shows that the overtly promiscuous behavior that …
Europeans' romanticist imaginings of people from the South Pacific have been around since the Enlightenment and have been significantly informed by the accounts of voyages to Tahiti by people such as Louis Bougainville. This book shows that the overtly promiscuous behavior that …
Celebrates the richness of Pacific Island cultures in the initial years of European contact as well as the collections' contemporary relevance to historians and the Indigenous communities who produced them. The essays in this book explore the history of the collections, their di…
Introduction. Exploding historyThe seasonality of lifeThe Mo'orean iconoclasmPomare's iconoclasm as seasonal sacrificeMore distant emulationsRe-consecrating the worldRe-binding societiesNew tabus and ancient pleasuresHistory, habitus and seasonality.