South Seas Encounters (eBook)

Table of Contents

Introduction

List of Illustrations

Part One: Ethnographic Encounters

Chapter One: "The Natives Have a Decided Feeling for Form:" A. C. Haddon, the Torres Strait(s) Expedition, and the Question of Primitive Art

Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

Chapter Two: Macabre Encounters: Poisoned Arrows and Poisoned Ethnographies from Victorian Melanesia

Jane Samson, University of Alberta

Part Two: Hawai`i and the British Empire

Chapter Three: A Meeting of "Sister Sovereigns:" Hawaiian Royalty at Victoria's Golden Jubilee

Lindsay Puawehiwa Wilhelm, University of California, Los Angeles

Chapter Four: At Home with the Victorians? The Kingdom of Hawai`i at the London Fisheries Exhibition, 1883

Peter H. Hoffenberg, University of Hawai`i, Manoa

Chapter Five: Robert Louis Stevenson's Grass Hut in Hawai`i

Richard J. Hill, Chaminade University

Chapter Six: Lad O' Pairts in Paradise: A Scottish Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom of Hawai`i

Bud (Duane) Clark, University of Hawai`i, Maui College

Part Three: Hawai`i and the American Republic

Chapter Seven: Ernest Hogan's Colored All-Stars Minstrel Show: A case of racial discrimination in the Republic of Hawai`i

Allison Paynter, Chaminade University

Chapter Eight: Emancipation, Education and Hampton's Southern Workman: Hawai'i, the Reconstruction South and Indian Territory

Teresa Zackodnik, University of Alberta

Part Four: Science Encounters

Chapter Nine: The Malay Archipelago and the Poetics of Nature

Alexis Harley, La Trobe University

Chapter Ten: Constance Gordon-Cumming and the Boring Volcano: Victorian Conceptions of Kilauea

Kent Linthicum, Oklahoma State University

Chapter Eleven: Nineteenth-Century Cultural and Geohistorical Interpretations of Kilauea

Philip K. Wilson, Retired History Department Chair, Current Bookstore Proprietor

Brief Biographies of Contributors

Index