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Revenge is an important motivation in human affairs relating to conflict and violence, and it is a notable feature in many societies within Oceania, where revenge is traditionally a sacred duty to the dead whose spirits demand it. Revenge instantiates a norm of reciprocity in the cosmos, ensuring a balance between violent and peaceful sequences of ritual action. Revenge further remains an important hidden factor in processes of violence beyond Oceania, revealing deep human propensities for retaliatory acts and the tendency to elevate these into principles of legitimacy. Sacred revenge may also be transcended through practices of wealth exchange.

Retribution --- Religious aspects. --- Oceania --- Moana Nui, Te --- Moana Oceania --- Oceanica --- South Pacific --- South Pacific Ocean Region --- South Pacific Region --- South Sea Islands --- South Seas --- Southwest Pacific Region --- Te Moana Nui --- Islands of the Pacific --- Religion.

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English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Islands of the Pacific --- Polynesia --- Oceania --- Intellectual life --- In literature. --- Oceanica --- South Pacific --- South Pacific Ocean Region --- South Pacific Region --- South Sea Islands --- South Seas --- Southwest Pacific Region --- Pacific Islands --- Pacific Ocean Islands --- Moana Nui, Te --- Moana Oceania --- Te Moana Nui --- littérature polynésienne --- roman

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Ethnology --- Migration, Internal --- Congresses. --- Oceania --- Social conditions --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Moana Nui, Te --- Moana Oceania --- Oceanica --- South Pacific --- South Pacific Ocean Region --- South Pacific Region --- South Sea Islands --- South Seas --- Southwest Pacific Region --- Te Moana Nui --- Islands of the Pacific

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Island Melanesia is a remarkable region in many respects, from its great ecological and linguistic diversity, to the complex histories of settlement and interaction spanning from the Pleistocene to the present. Archaeological research in Island Melanesia is currently going through a vibrant phase of exciting new discoveries and challenging debates about questions that apply far beyond the region. This volume draws together a variety of current perspectives in regional archaeology for Island Melanesia, focusing on Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea. It features both high-level theoretical approaches and rigorous data-driven case studies covering recent research in landscape archaeology, exchange and material culture, and cultural practices.

Archaeology --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- archaeology --- Melanesia --- archaeological theory --- archaeological practice --- cultural practices --- Oceania --- Civilization. --- Antiquities. --- Moana Nui, Te --- Moana Oceania --- Oceanica --- South Pacific --- South Pacific Ocean Region --- South Pacific Region --- South Sea Islands --- South Seas --- Southwest Pacific Region --- Te Moana Nui --- Islands of the Pacific

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This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists between 1767 and 1914 by drawing on history, literature, art history, and anthropology. Edmond engages with colonial texts and postcolonial theory, criticising both for their failure to acknowledge the historical specificity of colonial discourses and cultural encounters, and for continuing to see indigenous cultures in essentially passive or reactive terms. The book offers a detailed and grounded 'reading back' of these colonial discourses into the metropolitan centres which gave rise to them, while resisting the idea that all representations of other cultures are merely self-representations. Among its themes are the persistent myth-making around the figure of Cook, the western obsession with Polynesian sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism, and leprosy, and the Pacific as a theatre for adventure and as a setting for Europe's displaced fears of its own cultural extinction.

Oceania --- Europe --- Moana Nui, Te --- Moana Oceania --- Oceanica --- South Pacific --- South Pacific Ocean Region --- South Pacific Region --- South Sea Islands --- South Seas --- Southwest Pacific Region --- Te Moana Nui --- Islands of the Pacific --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Relations --- Colonization. --- Colonization --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature