Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History [Paperback]

Robert Borofsky (Editor)

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"A very impressive and important work." -- Claude Levi-Strauss, College de France, Paris

"An impressive array of contributors and a brilliantly innovative format." -- Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University

"Brimming over with new ideas about how history can be found, rethought, understood, and told." -- Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Robert Borofsky is professor of anthropology at Hawaii Pacific University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 574 pages
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press (May 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 082482301X
• ISBN-13: 978-0824823016
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,604,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid and innovative collection ranging from ethnography, March 16, 2004

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This review is from: Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History (Paperback)

to cultural poetics in timely, disjunctive, and importan ways from the interviews with Clifford and Said to the poems and stories and essays by indigenous peoples, settlers, interlopers, disciplinarians and a cast of thousands. I have used this text in a postcolonial writing course at Santa Cruz and it worked quite well to prod theory reflection and to thicken Pacific dimensionality. It is a well wrought text, finely made by editor and UH Press deserving broad circulation and use