Honour, Mana, and Agency in Polynesian-European Conflict

ISBN-13: 9780367026226 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 252 str.

Annette Wilkes

Opis

Focusing on the era of ‘first encounters’ in Polynesia, this book provides a fresh look at some of the early contacts between indigenous people and the captains and crew of European ships.

Spis treści

Series Editors' Foreword  Preface 1. Theory and the History-Anthropology Frontier  2. Approaches to the Anthropology of Violence  3. Conflicting Ontological Worlds  4. Encounters in Two Worlds  5. The Eclipse of Captain M-J Marion du Fresne  6. John Rowe's death at Grass Cove 1773  7. Cook's death at Kealakekua, Hawaii, 1779  8. Violence between Broughton and Moriori 1791  9. Honour, Status, and Agency

O autorze

Annette Wilkes has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.