Pacific Missionary George Brown 1835-1917
Pacific Missionary George Brown 1835-1917

Author: Margaret Reeson

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 192186298X

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George Brown (1835-1917) was many things during his long life; leader in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Australasia, explorer, linguist, political activist, apologist for the missionary enterprise, amateur anthropologist, writer, constant traveller, collector of artefacts, photographer and stirrer. He saw himself, at heart, as a missionary. The islands of the Pacific Ocean were the scene of his endeavours, with extended periods lived in Samoa and the New Britain region of todays Papua New Guinea, followed by repeated visits to Tonga, Fiji, the Milne Bay region of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It could be argued that while he was a missionary in the Pacific region he was not a pacific missionary. Brown gained unwanted notoriety for involvement in a violent confrontation at one point in his career, and lived through conflict in many contexts but he also frequently worked as a peace maker. Policies he helped shape on issues such as church union, indigenous leadership, representation by lay people and a wider role for women continue to influence Uniting Church in Australia and churches in the Pacific region. His name is still remembered with honour in several parts of the Pacific. Browns marriage to Sarah Lydia Wallis, daughter of pioneer missionaries to New Zealand, was long and rich. Each strengthened the other and they stand side by side in this account.

Missionary Studies
Missionary Studies

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Published: 2019

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This collection contains the personal papers and manuscripts of the Reverend George Brown (1825-1917), a missionary and ethnographer who travelled around the Pacific Islands and recorded the cultures of Polynesian and Oceanic indigenous peoples. Material ranges from his personal journals and letter books to photographs that Brown took of those who lived on the islands of New Guinea, New Britain, Fiji, Solomons, Tonga and Samoa from the years c.1890-1905.

Foreign Bodies
Foreign Bodies

Author: Bronwen Douglas

Publisher: Anu Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 376

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"The collection investigates the reciprocal significance of Oceania for the science of race, and of racial thinking for Oceania, during the two centuries after 1750, giving 'Oceania' a broad definition that encompasses the Pacific Islands, Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, and the Malay Archipelago. We aim to denaturalize the modernist scientific concept of race by means of a dual historical strategy: tracking the emergence of the concept in western Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, its subsequent normalization, and its practical deployment in Oceanic contexts; and exposing the tensions, inconsistencies, and instability of rival discourses. Under the broad rubrics of dereifying race and decentring Europe, these essays make several distinctive and innovative contributions. First, they locate the formulation of particular racial theories and the science of race generally at the intersections of metropolitan biology or anthropology and encounters in the field a relatively recent strategy in the history of ideas. We neither dematerialize ideas as purely abstract and discursive nor reduce them to social relations and politics, but ground them personally and circumstantially in embodied human interactions."--Provided by publisher.

Grass Huts and Warehouses
Grass Huts and Warehouses

Author: Caroline Ralston

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1921902329

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A pioneering study of early trade and beach communities in the Pacific Islands and first published in 1977, this book provides historians with an ambitious survey of early European-Polynesian contact, an analysis of how early trade developed along with the beachcomber community, and a detailed reconstruction of development of the early Pacific port towns. Set mainly in the first half of the 19th century, continuing in some cases for a few decades more, the book covers five ports: Kororareka (now Russell, in New Zealand), Levuka (Fiji), Apia (Samoa), Papeete (Tahiti) and Honolulu (Hawai'i). The role of beachcombers, the earliest European inhabitants, as well as the later consuls or commercial agents, and the development of plantation economies is explored. The book is a tour de force, the first detailed comparative academic study of these early precolonial trading towns and their race relations. It argues that the predominantly egalitarian towns where Islanders, beachcombers, traders, and missionaries mixed were largely harmonious, but this was undermined by later arrivals and larger populations.

Pacific Islands Portraits
Pacific Islands Portraits

Author: James Wightman Davidson

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Published: 2013

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The influence of explorers, missionaries, beachcombers, labour traders and colonial administrators upon the culture of the Pacific Islands' peoples.