Author: Pacific Science CongressPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Proceedings of the Sixth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association
Author: Pacific Science CongressPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Proceedings of the Eighth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association
Author: Proceedings of the Eighth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association
Author: Pacific Science CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Proceedings of the 8th Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association Held at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, 16th to 28th November 1953
Author: Proceedings of the ... Pacific Science Congress
Author: Proceedings of the Seventh Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific Science Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies
Author: Yuan ShuPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 988845577X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The field of transnational American studies is going through a paradigm shift from the transatlantic to the transpacific. This volume demonstrates a critical method of engaging the Asian Pacific: the chapters present alternative narratives that negotiate American dominance and exceptionalism by analyzing the experiences of Asians and Pacific Islanders from the vast region, including those from the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Hawaii, Guam, and other archipelagos. Contributors make use of materials from “oceanic archives,” retrieving what has seemingly been lost, forgotten, or downplayed inside and outside state-bound archives, state legal preoccupations, and state prioritized projects. The result is the recovery of indigenous epistemologies, which enables scholars to go beyond US-based sources and legitimates third-world knowledge production and dissemination. Surprising findings and unexpected perspectives abound in this work. Minnan traders from southern China are identified as the agents who connected the Indian Ocean with the Pacific, making the Manila Galleon trade in the sixteenth century the first completely global commercial enterprise. The Chamorro poetry of Guam gives a view of America from beyond its national borders and articulates the cultural pride of the Chamorro against US colonialism and imperialism. The continuing distortion of indigenous claims to the sovereignty of Hawaii is analyzed through a reading of the most widely circulated English translation of the creation myth, Kumulipo. There is also a critique of the Korean involvement in the American War in Vietnam, which was informed and shaped by Korean economy and politics in a global context. By investigating the transpacific as moments of military, cultural, and geopolitical contentions, this timely collection charts the reach and possibilities of the latest developments in the most dynamic form of transnational American studies. “This collection offers a well-organized and intellectually coherent series of essays addressing issues of American imperialism in Oceania and the Pacific region. Covering history, politics, and literary culture in equal measure, the essays are theoretically well-informed, and their focus on Indigenous cultures speaks to the current scholarly interest in the ways in which Indigenous communities can be understood within a global context.” —Paul Giles, University of Sydney “This terrific volume offers the latest mapping of that complex terrain known as the ‘transpacific.’ Timely and capacious, the essays here from an all-star cast of international scholars offer the latest thinking on the ‘oceanic’ dimensions of global modernity. Essential reading for anyone interested in the current ‘Asian’ turn in American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Transpacific Studies.” —Steven Yao, Hamilton College
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
Across Cultural Borders
Author: Eckhardt FuchsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742517684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This innovative work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess, but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis. Moving beyond the traditional national focus of historiography, the book offers a genuinely comparative consideration of the commonalities and differences in writing history. Distinguishing among distinct cultural identities, the contributors consider the ways and means of intellectual transfers and assess the strength of local historiographical traditions as they are challenged from outside. The essays explore the question of the utility and the limits of conceptions of modernism that apply Western theories of development to non-Western cultures. Warning against the dominant tendency in recent historiographies of non-Western societies to define these predominantly in relation to Western thought, the authors show the extent to which indigenous traditions have been overlooked. The key question is how the triad of industrialization, modernization, and the historicization process, which was decisive in the development of modern academic historiography, also is valid beyond Europe. Illustrating just how deeply suffused history writing is with European models, the book offers a broad theoretical platform for exploring the value and necessity of a world historiography beyond Eurocentrism.