Introduction: The Protean Savage
1. Island Stories of the Cannibal Kind
2. Missionary Martyrs of Melanesia
3. Indentured Labor and the White Savage
4. The Twilight of Headhunting
5. Among "Stone-Age" Savages
Conclusion: Savage Inversions
George K. Behlmer is Professor of History at the University of Washington.
"George Behlmer has produced a formidable work of scholarship, drawing on a daunting array of sources and a career's worth of writing on British social and intellectual history. In sparkling, seamless prose, Risky Shores offers fresh insights into the cultural encounters between the British and the Melanesians, and the layered meanings these encounters accrued in the British, and more broadly Western, imagination."—Dane Kennedy, George Washington University "Risky Shores is a wonderful book: beautifully researched, compellingly written, and vitally important to debates about race relations and agency in the Pacific world. Focusing on southwestern Melanesia, Behlmer analyzes a dazzling array of primary source material, enhancing more conventional explorers' journals and missionary reports with his impressive command of ballads, artwork, films, sideshow acts, and literature. The result is an intellectual feast."—Jane Samson, University of Alberta "George Behlmer's expansive Risky Shores addresses fascinating issues and raises many important questions, both directly and indirectly....For its extraordinary wealth of research, for the deftly chosen examples and the effective interpretation of those within a larger historical framework, this is essential reading for those interested in this part of the world or in the power structures and mechanisms of imperialism."—Amy Woodson-Boulton, The Pacific Circle
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