Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. 1. Introduction: Postcoloniality and the Pacific 1
5. 2. Nature and History, Self and Other: European Perceptions of World History in the Age of Encounter 25
6. 3. South Pacific Mythology 45
7. 4. The Postmodern Legacy of a Premodern Warrior Goddess in Modern Samoa 55
8. 5. Myth and History 61
9. 6. A History Lesson: Captain Cook Finds Himself in the State of Nature 89
10. 7. Myth, Science, and Experience in the British Construction of the Pacific 100
11. 8. A Tribal Encounter: The Presence and Properties of Common-Law Language in the Discourse of Colonization in the Early Modern Period 114
12. 9. Liberty and License: The Forsters’ Accounts of New Zealand Sociality 132
13. 10. Early Contact Ethnography and Understanding: An Evaluation of the Cook Expeditionary Accounts of the Grass Cove Conflict 156
14. 11. My Musket, My Missionary, and My Mana 180
15. 12. Enlightenment Anthropology and the Ancestral Remains of Australian Aboriginal People 202
16. 13. Missionaries on Tahiti, 1797–1840 226
17. 14. Augustus Earle’s The Meeting of the Artist and the Wounded Chief Hongi, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 1827 and His Depictions of Other New Zealand Encounters: Contexts and Connections 241
18. 15. Categorical Weavings: European Representations of the Architecture of Hakari 265
19. 16. Pacific Colonialism and the Formation of Literary Culture 285
20. 17. The Canon on the Beach: H. T. Kemp Translating Robinson Crusoe and The Pilgrim’s Progress 304
21. 18. Tuku Whenua and Land Sale in New Zealand in the Nineteenth Century 317
22. Contributors 329
23. Index 333