Alex Calder
Biographic Data
| ID | 3870751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Calder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Calder |
| SIGNATURE | CALDER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3259-298X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Voyages and Beaches
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literar…
Reenactment and the Natural History of Settlement
Henry Thoreau, digging one day for fish-worms, happened to uproot a groundnut. This small edible tuber had been a staple in pre-contact times but had long since dwindled into obscurity, becoming unnoticeable among the sundry vines and creepers of the forest. Unearthing “the potato of the aborigines” seemed to Thoreau “like a faint promise of Nature to rear her own children and feed them simply here at some future period”. He seems to have found t…
The Thrice Mysterious Taboo
Research Article| July 01 1999 "The Thrice Mysterious Taboo": Melville's Typee and the Perception of Culture Alex Calder Alex Calder Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1999) 67: 27–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902885 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
The temptations of William Pascoe Crook
The missionary William Pascoe Crook was the first European to make an extended residence in the Marquesas. He failed to make a single convert in the two years he was there but instead risked a ‘conversion’ of sorts in everyday compromises between fitting in with, and preserving his independence from, a way of life he found to be abhorrent. This paper reconstructs the quality of Crook's experience during his sojourn in the Marquesas and reflects o…
Voyages and Beaches
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literar…
The Thrice Mysterious Taboo
Research Article| July 01 1999 "The Thrice Mysterious Taboo": Melville's Typee and the Perception of Culture Alex Calder Alex Calder Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1999) 67: 27–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902885 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
The temptations of William Pascoe Crook
The missionary William Pascoe Crook was the first European to make an extended residence in the Marquesas. He failed to make a single convert in the two years he was there but instead risked a ‘conversion’ of sorts in everyday compromises between fitting in with, and preserving his independence from, a way of life he found to be abhorrent. This paper reconstructs the quality of Crook's experience during his sojourn in the Marquesas and reflects o…
The temptations of William Pascoe Crook
The missionary William Pascoe Crook was the first European to make an extended residence in the Marquesas. He failed to make a single convert in the two years he was there but instead risked a ‘conversion’ of sorts in everyday compromises between fitting in with, and preserving his independence from, a way of life he found to be abhorrent. This paper reconstructs the quality of Crook's experience during his sojourn in the Marquesas and reflects o…
The Thrice Mysterious Taboo
Research Article| July 01 1999 "The Thrice Mysterious Taboo": Melville's Typee and the Perception of Culture Alex Calder Alex Calder Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1999) 67: 27–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902885 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Reenactment and the Natural History of Settlement
Henry Thoreau, digging one day for fish-worms, happened to uproot a groundnut. This small edible tuber had been a staple in pre-contact times but had long since dwindled into obscurity, becoming unnoticeable among the sundry vines and creepers of the forest. Unearthing “the potato of the aborigines” seemed to Thoreau “like a faint promise of Nature to rear her own children and feed them simply here at some future period”. He seems to have found t…
Voyages and Beaches
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literar…
History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)