Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti Book

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Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti
Written by author Anne Salmond
Published by University of California Press, January 2010
"This book offers a fresh history of early Tahiti, considerably richer than any published before, imaginative in its speculations around local cosmology and local meanings, but also precise in its reconstruction of the political relationships that evolved

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Introduction Aphrodite's Island

Chapter 1 Thunder in 'Opoa Chapter 2 The Glorious Children of Tetumu Chapter 3 Purea, 'Queen' of Tahiti Chapter 4 Happy Island of Cythera Chapter 5 Ahutoru at the Opéra Chapter 6 A Polynesian Venus Chapter 7 Captain Cook in Arcadia Chapter 8 The Transit of Venus Chapter 9 Circling the Land Chapter 10 Tupaia's Ship Chapter 11 The Viceroy of Peru Chapter 12 Tute 's Return Chapter 13 Hitihiti's Odyssey Chapter 14 The Red Feathers of 'Oro Chapter 15 Three Tahitians in Lima Chapter 16 Boenechea's Burial Chapter 17 Matimo and the Friars Chapter 18 Ma'i on Ice Skates Chapter 19 A Bare-chested Captain Chapter 20 Tute 's Portrait Conclusion The Angel of History Appendix I The Seasons in Tahiti Appendix II Islands Named by Island Navigators

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Title: Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti

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Item Number: 9780520261143

Publication Date: January 2010

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reviewed Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti on November 07, 2017

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Amazing descriptions of the tragic (and sometimes comic) events that occurred when Europeans made first contact with Tahiti. The English expeditions were quasi-scientific ones, though with secret diplomatic/imperialist missions, too, so we have a much better and more detailed understanding of what happened. Anne Salmond does a good job of interpreting and giving context to the first person accounts of Captain Cook and the scientists who traveled with him, and the way the Europeans placed Tahiti, and Polynesians in general, into a Greco/Roman-mythological narrative, linked to a shift in cultural and sexual mores that was occurring in Europe at the time as the result of the Enlightenment.

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