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Gone Native in Polynesia

Hardcover • 1998 • English

Gone Native in Polynesia

By Ian Christopher Campbell

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About the book

Campbell presents a study of the lives and experiences of Europeans and Americans in the age of early industrial overseas expansions, who became detatched from their own societies and lived, sometimes for many years, among Pacific Islanders as integrated members of their communities, often with little hope of returning home and frequently with no wish to do so. As engaging as primitivism was to European philosophers, the realities of contact between seafarers and islanders who faced previously u...Show more

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ISBN

9780313307874

Publisher

Greenwood Press

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

Gone Native in Polynesia

Format

Hardcover

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