Front Cover
“A watery shot of the island of Ambae under cloud and sunburst.” Photograph by John Patrick Taylor. Reproduced with kind permission of the photographer.
Figures
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Figure 1.1 |
Map of Terra Australis Incognita (Polus Antarcticus). Amsterdam: De Wit, 1666 |
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Figure 1.2 |
Man of the Island of Mallicollo by William Hodges, first version |
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Figure 1.3 |
Man of the Island of Mallicollo, final version, engraving by J. Caldwall after William Hodges |
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Figure 1.4 |
Map of Océanie by Levasseur after d’Urville’s ethnic divisions. Océanie, map attribution to Emile Levasseur, from Atlas universel de géographie physique (Paris: 1854) |
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Figure 2.1 |
Australia and the Pacific, showing conventional contemporary divisions of Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia |
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Figure 2.2 |
Recorded South Pacific voyages 1788–1840 |
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Figure 2.3 |
Languages of the Eastern Outer Islands |
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Figure 2.4 |
Trade networks in the Santa Cruz Island group |
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Figure 3.1 |
Map of Vanuatu |
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Figure 3.2 |
Detail from “New Hebrides, Banks and Duff Groups, showing Discoveries of Quiros in 1606” |
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Figure 3.3 |
The Site of La Nueba Hierusalem and the Bay of San Felipe y Santiago. Detail from “Planos de las Bahías descubiertas el año de 1606, en las islas del Espíritu Santo y de Nueva Guinea y Dibujadas por D. Diego de Prado y Tovar en Igual Fecha” (Soc. Georgr. De Madrid, 1878) |
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Figure 3.4 |
“Modern time/space: distancing” – Fabian’s Plotting of the Other in the Pre-Modern and Modern Periods |
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Figure 3.5 |
Bougainville’s Tracks in 1768 |
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Figure 3.6 |
Pandanus red textile from Ambae, plaited and dyed by women but worn by men (“Men’s mat singo tuvegi, Ambae, Vanuatu”) |
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Figure 3.7 |
The tracks of the Resolution and Adventure on Cook’s Second Voyage, 1774 (“Vanuatu/New Hebrides Islands, showing Cook’s track in 1774”) |
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Figure 3.8 |
“Woman of the Island of Tanna, drawn from Nature by William Hodges, engraved by James Basire” (likely William Blake in Basire's studio). |
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Figure 3.9 |
“Omai. Drawn from Nature by William Hodges, engraved by James Caldwall”. London: Wm. Strahan & Thos. Cadell, 1777 |
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Figure 3.10 |
The late Bong or Bumangari Kaon of Bunlap in the 1970s |
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Figure 6.1 |
Map of d’Entrecasteaux’s voyage, 1791–4 |
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Figure 6.2 |
“Sauvage des îles de l’Amirauté” (engraving) |
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Figure 6.3 |
“Homme du Cap de Diemen; Finau, chef des guerriers de Tongatabu” (engraving) |
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Figure 6.4 |
“Sauvage de la Nouvelle-Calédonie lançant une zagaie” (engraving) |
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Figure 8.1 |
Map of Papua or New Guinea |
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Figure 8.2 |
Detail from “Sketch Map of a Journey across the Island of Papua by J.A. Lawson” |
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Figure 8.3 |
“Mount Hercules” |
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Figure 10.1 |
The Anga groups in Papua New Guinea |
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Figure 10.2 |
The Ankave country |
Tables
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Table 2.1 |
Oceanic indigenous languages |
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Table 2.2 |
Eleven languages of the Santa Cruz Group |
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Table 2.3 |
Example possessive noun classes for “Papuan” languages Nendö and Äiwoo |
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Table 2.4 |
Sample of Polynesian borrowings into the non-Polynesian languages of the Santa Cruz Group |
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Table 2.5 |
Queensland plantation labour 1863–1906 |
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Table 10.1 |
Administrative patrols in or around Ankave country (1929–1972) |