Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875-1935 9780824874612

The subject of colonialism encompasses a multitude of analytic concerns about the nature and extent of political control

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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
A Note on Vocabulary
Introduction
1. Dispersions, 1875–1881
2. Accommodations and Refractions, 1901–1912
3. Mimetic Others, 1919–1921
4. Moral Neurasthenia or Functioning Tribal Society, 1929–1935
5. Gifts and Curios
6. Islander Responses: From Objects to Subjects
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875-1935
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