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Gone Native in Polynesia - Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific (Hardcover, New)
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Gone Native in Polynesia - Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific (Hardcover, New)
Series: Contributions to the Study of World History
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Campbell presents a study of the lives and experiences of Europeans
and Americans in the age of early industrial overseas expansions,
who became detatched from their own societies and lived, sometimes
for many years, among Pacific Islanders as integrated members of
their communities, often with little hope of returning home and
frequently with no wish to do so. As engaging as primitivism was to
European philosophers, the realities of contact between seafarers
and islanders who faced previously unimagined technological and
human marvels were much more pragmatic. Jealousy, ethnocentrism,
and violence on both sides competed with humanitarian interests and
indigenous hospitality to shape the emerging pattern of
relationships. At first, Europeans crossed the oceans only for
compelling reasons: the passion for scientific research, the
dedication to Christian evangelism, or the uncompromising profit
motive. Later, settlers and government officials followed in the
wake of these early explorers. Scattered in the interstices of
contact relationships were large numbers of men whose interest was
not in changing native society or profiting from it, but in
experiencing primitive life and simply surviving itself. These men
included castaways and deserters, some abandoned by their captains
and others kidnapped by the islanders. Their prospects depended on
their successful integration into Polynesian society--and in making
themselves useful by applying European knowledge and skills to
local situations and by mediating between islanders and their
insistent visitors.
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