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008			180205s2018 cauab ob 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781503605954 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	1	0	_aDU490 _b.R575 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aBehlmer, George K., _e1
245	1	0	_aRisky shores : _bsavagery and colonialism in the western Pacific / _cGeorge K. Behlmer.
260			_aStanford, California : _bStanford University Press, _c(c)2018..
300			_a1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages) : _billustrations, maps
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction : the protean savage -- _tIsland stories of the cannibal kind -- _tMissionary martyrs of Melanesia -- _tIndentured labor and the white savage -- _tThe twilight of headhunting -- _tAmong "stone-age" savages -- _tConclusion : savage inversions.
520	0		_aWhy did the so-called "Cannibal Isles" of the Western Pacific fascinate Europeans for so long? Spanning three centuries--from Captain James Cook's death on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 to the end of World War II in 1945--this book considers the category of "the savage" in the context of British Empire in the Western Pacific, reassessing the conduct of Islanders and the English-speaking strangers who encountered them. Sensationalized depictions of Melanesian "savages" as cannibals and headhunters created a unifying sense of Britishness during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These exotic people inhabited the edges of empire--and precisely because they did, Britons who never had and never would leave the home islands could imagine their nation's imperial reach.George Behlmer argues that Britain's early visitors to the Pacific--mainly cartographers and missionaries--wielded the notion of savagery to justify their own interests. But savage talk was not simply a way to objectify and marginalize native populations: it would later serve also to emphasize the fragility of indigenous cultures. Behlmer by turns considers cannibalism, headhunting, missionary activity, the labor trade, and Westerners' preoccupation with the perceived "primitiveness" of indigenous cultures, arguing that British representations of savagery were not merely straightforward expressions of colonial power, but also belied home-grown fears of social disorder.
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650		0	_aAnthropology _zMelanesia.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1815187&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell