Artifacts of encounter : contested geographies in Polynesia and the American Pacific
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Since American ships began to enter the Pacific Ocean frontier at the turn of the nineteenth century, Pacific Islanders and voyagers from the West have engaged in increasingly complex forms of cross-cultural contact and exchange. The artifacts from these encounters exist in many forms: travelogues, maps, ethnographic accounts, works of popular literature, embodied practices such as tattooing, as well as a wide range of material culture, examples of which have entered museums around the world. In "Artifacts of Encounter, " I examine this circulation and exchange of people, ideas, and things—all of which take on multiple lives as they become embedded in the transnational circuits that link the Pacific with a modernizing world. The world of the Pacific becomes a constant site of negotiation, where indigenous and foreign conceptions of place and geography intersect and come into conflict as the scope of these encounters stretches across the last two centuries. The disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, history, and literature are brought to the fore to understand the complexity of these "Artifacts of Encounter." The dissertation's chapters are organized around four kinds of mapping that interweave indigenous and Western perspectives: early nineteenth-century American military exploits (1813); American "cultural" mapping of the Pacific by popular authors (1840-1851); the professionalization of anthropological accounts from the nineteenth into the early twentieth century; and finally, geographies of indigenous protest in the contemporary Pacific.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Johnson, Corey Masao |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Moya, Paula M. L |
| Thesis advisor | Moya, Paula M. L |
| Thesis advisor | Jones, Gavin Roger, 1968- |
| Thesis advisor | Melillo, Edward D |
| Degree committee member | Jones, Gavin Roger, 1968- |
| Degree committee member | Melillo, Edward D |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Program in Modern Thought and Literature. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Corey Masao Johnson. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Program in Modern Thought and Literature. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Corey Masao Johnson
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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