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Author Behlmer, George K., author.

Title Risky shores : savagery and colonialism in the western Pacific / George K. Behlmer.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the protean savage -- Island stories of the cannibal kind -- Missionary martyrs of Melanesia -- Indentured labor and the white savage -- The twilight of headhunting -- Among "stone-age" savages -- Conclusion : savage inversions.
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Subject Melanesia -- Social life and customs.
Melanesia.
Manners and customs.
Melanesia -- Foreign public opinion, British.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Oceania -- History.
Great Britain.
Colonies.
Oceania.
History.
Prehistoric peoples -- Melanesia.
Anthropology -- Melanesia.
Prehistoric peoples.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Behlmer, George K. Risky shores. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 9781503604926 (DLC) 2018004274
ISBN 9781503605954 (electronic book)
1503605957 (electronic book)
9781503604926