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Pac.DU490.B44 2018
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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.
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