Unwrapping gods: encounters with gods and missionaries in Tahiti and the Austral Islands 1797-1830
The notion of tapu in eighteenth century Polynesia was all-pervasive: a system of fluid boundaries and thresholds in the landscape pertaining to islands, bodies and objects. The thesis aims to isolate a body of Austral god images from within the London Missionary Society collection and think through...
Main Author: | Jessop, Maia Kerr |
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University of East Anglia
2007
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490367 |
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