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Pacific Romanticism - Tahiti and the European Imagination (Hardcover, New)
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Pacific Romanticism - Tahiti and the European Imagination (Hardcover, New)
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Europeans' romanticist imaginings of people from the South Pacific
have been around since the Enlightenment and have been
significantly informed by the accounts of voyages to Tahiti by
people such as Louis Bougainville. This book shows that the overtly
promiscuous behavior that the French perceived as hospitality on
the part of the Tahitians in 1768 was actually a defensive ploy,
and that our contemporary image of sex and sexuality in Pacific
Island societies is influenced by a fantasy based on this French
misperception. This volume takes a very detailed look at
traditional Tahitian culture and society and provides a realistic
description of what happened on Tahiti when Europeans encountered
the people who lived there. Bolyanatz provides a very readable
history of South Pacific exploration and Enlightenment thinking.
Anyone interested in the development of Enlightenment thought and
the way it has developed since the 18th century will enjoy this
book.
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