Brent clough when a book titled beach crossings by greg dening virtually. Beach crossings pacific footprints is a meditation in words and music on european presence and colonization in the pacific from the first landing of the dolphin at tahiti in 1766 up until the dropping of the atomic bomb in world war two on hiroshima and contemporary indonesian colonization practices. Beach crossings is part memoir, part history, and part imaginative exploration of the symbolic strip of land where ocean meets beach. Join us at the state library of victoria as we celebrate. There is no beach without sea, no sea without sky, no sky without the earths curve.
As dening said in his semiautobiographical beach crossings. Voyaging across times, cultures, and self 9780812238495. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers all about beach crossings. Greg dening 19312008 history workshop journal oxford.
Distinguished historian anthropologist greg dening here revisits the isl. Remembering greg dening, the contemporary pacific deepdyve. I like the title because it resonates with my relationship with john. Gregs last pacific book, the autoethnography beach crossings, is a memorial.
Not a book, scattered notes, unconnected, like dreams, like life, made of bits and pieces. Let me be a storyteller of beach crossings of others and catch the flow of living and telling on the beaches of my own mind. In readingswritings his aim is to cultivate our imaginations so that we might see further. Performances by dening, greg published by university of chicago press hardcover sep 30, 1996. Distinguished historian anthropologist greg dening here revisits the island beaches of oceania in an extended essay on first encounters and the peoples they brought together. In dening s unique parlance, the beach is liminal, a threshold, the place for transformational crossings towards and away from the stranger in the other, towards and away from the stranger in the self. His valedictory book, beach crossings 2004, glows with this spirit. Greg dening 1931 march 2008 was an australian historian of the pacific. Save over 20% credits will not expire, so you can use them at any time. Historians, anthropologists, and humanists alike, curl into your favorite reading position and pick up this engaging, inspiring book. Beach crossings pacific footprints is a meditation in words and. Voyaging across times, cultures, and self oct 1, 2004. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. Dec 04, 2005 historians, anthropologists, and humanists alike, curl into your favorite reading position and pick up this engaging, inspiring book.
Louis school in perth and xavier college in melbourne. Greg dening is adjunct professor at the center for crosscultural research at the australian national universitycanberra and the author of the death of william gooch, island and beaches, mr. He is a fellow of the academy of social sciences of australia. Sep 28, 2004 acclaimed ethnohistorian greg dening revisits the bloody history of the marquesas and other islands in oceania to craft an extended essay on human change and transition. Greg dening in this collection of writingssome new, some previously published greg dening reflects on his experiences both as a historian and a participant in hi. Marquesas 17711880 after a chance meeting with an old marquesas man by the name of teifitu in 1974. Voyaging across times, cultures and self 2004, in life as in work the gamble is being yourself. Writing it, teaching it, reading it fills the days and years of my life. It was not the nature of denings criticism to boundaryride or pointscore. In the view from the beach, the forefront is all detail and movement, all history, one is tempted to say.
Blighs bad language, performances, and readingswritings. Greg dening acclaimed ethnohistorian greg dening revisits the bloody history of the marquesas and other islands in oceania to craft an extended essay on human change and transition. He then went on to the universities of melbourne and harvard. Search the catalogue for collection items held by the national library of australia. Born in boston, massachusetts, greg currently works as a high school social studies teacher at atlanta public schools. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. His readingdances are about the pain of crosscultural encounters, of loomings beyond the horizons of discipline, gender and race, of the pleasures of a hundred texts. Greg had recently had a multiple heart bypass and taken up jogging as a health measure. He returned numerous times over the years, including a. In this reflective and reflexive work he sums up his career on several fronts, using the metaphor of the beach for spaces of contact, negotiation, and transition.
Greg dening historiananthropologist greg dening here revisits the island beaches of oceania in an extended essay on first encounters and the peoples they brought together. Finding a shared knowledge with teifitu and a continued relationship, both dening and teifitu made the effort to cross the beach. Greg s last pacific book, the autoethnography beach crossings, is a memorial to jonathan whose crossing was too brief. To cite this article douglas, bronwen2008 greg dening.
Historical reenactmants on hm bark endeavour and the voyaging canoe hokulea in the sea of islands. Voyaging across times, cultures and self melbourne and philadelphia, 2004 is his latest book. In this broadranging survey of paris, tahiti, indochina, japan, new caledonia, and the south pacific generally, matt matsuda illustrates the fascinating interplay that shaped the imaginations of both colonizer and colonized. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. He returned numer ous times over the years, including a sixmonth visit as the john a burns. It placed, as dening might say, the postcolonial mind on the beach, ready for all manner of encounter with difference. About this title may belong to another edition of this title. Voyaging across times, cultures, and self, ethnographic historian greg dening tells elegant tales of adventure, discovery, and belonging. Voyaging across times, cultures, and self by greg dening. Voyaging across times, cultures, and self, ethnographic historian greg. More than fifty years of denings pacific research, teachings, travels, and reflections have resulted here in an engaging twothousandyear.
He was bemused by the culture of envy in academia and the blood sport of debunking. He also wrote a wonderful book titles mr blighs bad language a meditation on the mutiny on the bounty. His book beach crossings is mainly concerned with the marquesas islands, its inhabitants and some early europeans who chose to live amongst them in the late 18th century. Blighs bad language, dening writes here an intensely personal, compelling reflection upon his crossings, his subjectsand ours. Greg had recently had a multiple heart bypass and taken up jogging as a. Jan 01, 2010 it placed, as dening might say, the postcolonial mind on the beach, ready for all manner of encounter with difference. Beach crossings is for greg dening a summary work, the apex of a fiftyyear career that has taken him across many beaches and oceans. Pdf on dec 1, 2008, bronwen douglas and others published greg dening. Blighs bad language, dening writes here an intensely personal, compelling reflection upon his crossings, his subjectsand oursmore. In beach crossings, moreso than in islands and beaches, dening expresses an awareness of the limitations of the storytelling he has spent his career honing through practice and teaching. Pahupu, hawaiian warriors cutintwo by their tattoos, killed him there. Greg dening news newspapers books scholar jstor may 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message. Voyaging across times, cultures and self 9780522848861 by dening, greg and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices.
Greg beach is an educator, writer, gardener and brewer based in atlanta, georgia. And in part two, romebased musician and writer, mike cooper has created a musical suite informed by some of the ideas of the late australian anthropologist greg dening, who spent a lifetime. He returned numerous times over the years, including a sixmonth visit as the john a burns. He received an ma from the university of melbourne and a phd from harvard university, where his doctoral dissertation was a historical ethnography of the marquesas islands. He would like his stories to represent a way of being there, but acknowledges that they are recreations based on the accounts of outsiders, and that his. Dening, greg 19312008 people and organisations trove.
Follow greg dening and explore their bibliography from s greg dening author page. Australian historiananthropologist greg dening inaugurated a new genre of ethnohistorical writing in his books on early encounters between. But the bits and pieces of his life as he sees it now at the end of it are framed by the before and after of his beach crossings on the margins of the civilised world. Pacific book, the autoethnography beach crossings, is a. Greg dening was inspired to write islands and beaches. He has much to say about his own beach crossings, but skimmingly, with little depth or substance. There is a wonderful book that has just been written called beach crossings, voyaging across times, cultures and self. Type book authors greg dening date 2004 publisher melbourne university publishing pub place carlton, vic isbn10 0522848869. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, matsuda describes the constitution of a french pacific through the eyes of tahitian monarchs, kanak warriors, french politicos and. Perhaps it might seem intrusive to present my believing self in the stories of others crossing. But greg dening uses the incident of his murder as the basis for a penetrating study of historical narrative and meaning. Acclaimed ethnohistorian greg dening revisits the bloody history of the marquesas and other islands in oceania to craft an extended essay on human change and transition. Dening was born in 1931 and attended the jesuitrun schools of st.
Book authors greg dening date 2004 publisher melbourne university publishing pub place carlton, vic. Greg dening and the invigoration of indigenous pacific history. Reading is a dance on the beaches of the mind, writes greg dening. William gooch died at waimea on the island of oahu in the hawaiian chain. Explore books by greg dening with our selection at. More than fifty years of denings pacific research, teachings, travels, and reflections have resulted here in an engaging twothousandyear history of fenuaenata and the diverse people, including dening himself, who have crossed its beaches. Accounts of greg s efforts to teach cultural history in hawaii can be found in his 1997 article, empowering imaginations, for the contemporary pacific and also in his more recent book, beach crossings. To cite this article douglas, bronwen2008greg dening.
Australian historiananthropologist greg dening inaugurated a new genre of ethnohistorical writing in his books on early encounters between westerners and pacific islanders. He believed in the gerund form over the plain noun, for life was in the living of it, not in the word life. In beach crossings, published 24 years after islands and beaches, dening. Greg dening in this collection of writingssome new, some previously publishedgreg dening reflects on his experiences both as a historian and a participant in history.
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