TITLE: |
Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific / George K. Behlmer |
AUTHOR: |
Behlmer, George K |
PUBLISHED: |
Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2018. |
DESCRIPTION: |
338 p.; 28 cm. |
NOTES: |
Includes index. |
NOTES: |
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Protean Savage -- 1. Island Stories of the Cannibal Kind -- 2. Missionary Martyrs of Melanesia -- 3. Indentured Labor and the White Savage -- 4. The Twilight of Headhunting -- 5. Among "Stone-Age" Savages -- Conclusion: Savage Inversions -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- |
SUBJECT: |
Melanesia---Social life and customs. |
SUBJECT: |
Melanesia--Foreign public opinion, British. |
SUBJECT: |
Great Britain--Colonies--Oceania--History. |
SUBJECT: |
Primitive societies--Melanesia. |