Greg Dening
Biographic Data
| ID | 78621 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Dening |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Dening |
| SIGNATURE | DENING G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Afterword 1
'An island always pleases my imagination; even the smallest, as a small continent and integral part of the globe', Henry David Thoreau once wrote. For more than fifty years, I too have had my imagination filled with islands. And for much the same reasons as Thoreau. Islands are 'small continents', manageable totalities in themselves. And 'integral parts of the globe'; cut off but playing variations on the same humankind themes
Endeavour and Hokule’a: The Theatre of Re-enactment Histories
Respectfulness as a performance art: Way-Finding
I am standing on the 100,000 years old beaches of Lake Mungo and hearing our Muthi Muthi and Barkindji mentors speak of those 100,000 years as if they were yesterday. I hear the metaphor—way-finding—of present day Sea Peoples as they re-enact the voyagings of their ancestors to encompass the vast spaces of their Sea of Islands as my own metaphor of intellectual discovery. To listen you must be silent. To enter otherness you must be respectful
Sea People of the West
Two thousand years ago, or thereabouts, a double canoe sailed on a northeast tack (or maybe a southeast tack) from a Homeland (Hawaiki) among the islands of Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji. After a voyage of 7,000 kilometers, which bypassed the many as yet uninhabited islands of the central Pacific (such as Tahiti) and the stretch of the seventy atolls of the Tuamotu that spread umbrellalike across the eastern entry of the Pacific, the canoe landed on isl…
Living In and With Deep Time: Public Lecture XII David Nichol Smith Conference July 19, 2004
Hans Turley — Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality and Masculine Identity
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Afterword
Performing on the Beaches of the Mind: An Essay
History-the past transformed into words or paint or dance or play-is always a performance. An everyday performance as we present our selective narratives about what has happened at the kitchen table, to the courts, to the taxman, at the graveside. A quite staged performance when we present it to our examiners, to the collegiality of our disciplines, whenever we play the role of "historian." History is theater, a place of thea (in the Greek, a pla…
Enigma Variations on History in Three Keys: A Conversational Essay
Book reviewed in this article: History In Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth by Paul A. Cohen
Richard Price (1998), The Convict and the Colonel: A Story of Colonialism and Resistance in the Caribbean
Between worlds∗
Eulogy for Paul Bourke: Newman college chapel, Friday, 11 June 1999
IT WAS ON MY WATCH as chair of the board, and by my invitation, that Paul Bourke took up the editorship of Historical Studies. We were co‐conspirators, successful (we told one another) in breaking the hold of Melbourne over the journal; less successful (we also told one another) in broadening the concerns of the journal towards historical writing in Australia away from writing Australian history. This eulogy is more epitaph to a personal friendsh…
Writing, Rewriting the Beach: An Essay
Calcutta 1811. The rich travelled on the shoulders of the poor in Calcutta in 1811. Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, in his palanquin, bobbed along above the heads of the coolies and beggars in Tank Square. He did not see the short man with a sailor's gait and a scarred, near-toothless face. But Edward Robarts saw him. Seeing Raffles gave Robarts hope. For ten months on this, the harshest of his beaches, Robarts had been on the slide. Calcutta was a …
The Death of William Gooch: A History's Anthropology
Performances
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
Performances
Performances
Journal Article Performances. By Greg Dening. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xvi, 296 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-226-14297-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-226-14298-1.) Get access Craig Calhoun Craig Calhoun New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1096–1097, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953177 Published:…
Captain James Cook
Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature
Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature, David Philip Miller and Peter Harms Reill. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 370 pp
Essay review
The Theatricality of History Making and the Paradoxes of Acting
Mr Bligh's bad language: Passion, power, and theatre on the Bounty
"Captain Bligh and the voyage of the Bounty are the starting point of this new study of the famous mutiny in history, literature and film. By juxtaposing an account of the mutiny with an analysis of its evolving place in history and culture, Mr. Bligh's Bad Language offers a new interpretation of the mutiny in the context of its historical and cultural representations." "Beginning with an analysis of naval life and ritual aboard the Bounty, Greg …
History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch
Journal Article History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch. By Greg Dening. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1988. xx + 122 pp. Cloth, $25.25; paper, $9.75.) Get access David Goodman David Goodman University of Melbourne, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078137 Published: 01 June 1991
History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch
History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch
Journal Article History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch. By Greg Dening. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1988. xx + 122 pp. Cloth, $25.25; paper, $9.75.) Get access David Goodman David Goodman University of Melbourne, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078137 Published: 01 June 1991
The Theatricality of History Making and the Paradoxes of Acting
The Marquesan Journal of Edward Robarts 1797-1824
Sea People of the West
Two thousand years ago, or thereabouts, a double canoe sailed on a northeast tack (or maybe a southeast tack) from a Homeland (Hawaiki) among the islands of Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji. After a voyage of 7,000 kilometers, which bypassed the many as yet uninhabited islands of the central Pacific (such as Tahiti) and the stretch of the seventy atolls of the Tuamotu that spread umbrellalike across the eastern entry of the Pacific, the canoe landed on isl…
Writing, Rewriting the Beach: An Essay
Calcutta 1811. The rich travelled on the shoulders of the poor in Calcutta in 1811. Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, in his palanquin, bobbed along above the heads of the coolies and beggars in Tank Square. He did not see the short man with a sailor's gait and a scarred, near-toothless face. But Edward Robarts saw him. Seeing Raffles gave Robarts hope. For ten months on this, the harshest of his beaches, Robarts had been on the slide. Calcutta was a …
Possessing Tahiti
Performing on the Beaches of the Mind: An Essay
History-the past transformed into words or paint or dance or play-is always a performance. An everyday performance as we present our selective narratives about what has happened at the kitchen table, to the courts, to the taxman, at the graveside. A quite staged performance when we present it to our examiners, to the collegiality of our disciplines, whenever we play the role of "historian." History is theater, a place of thea (in the Greek, a pla…
Mr Bligh's bad language: Passion, power, and theatre on the Bounty
"Captain Bligh and the voyage of the Bounty are the starting point of this new study of the famous mutiny in history, literature and film. By juxtaposing an account of the mutiny with an analysis of its evolving place in history and culture, Mr. Bligh's Bad Language offers a new interpretation of the mutiny in the context of its historical and cultural representations." "Beginning with an analysis of naval life and ritual aboard the Bounty, Greg …
Respectfulness as a performance art: Way-Finding
I am standing on the 100,000 years old beaches of Lake Mungo and hearing our Muthi Muthi and Barkindji mentors speak of those 100,000 years as if they were yesterday. I hear the metaphor—way-finding—of present day Sea Peoples as they re-enact the voyagings of their ancestors to encompass the vast spaces of their Sea of Islands as my own metaphor of intellectual discovery. To listen you must be silent. To enter otherness you must be respectful
Living In and With Deep Time: Public Lecture XII David Nichol Smith Conference July 19, 2004
History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch
Richard Price (1998), The Convict and the Colonel: A Story of Colonialism and Resistance in the Caribbean
The Marquesan Journal of Edward Robarts 1797-1824
Islands and Beaches
The Face of Battle: Valparaiso, 1814
Islands and Beaches, Discourses on a Silent Land: Marquesas, 1774-1880
Possessing Tahiti
Islands and beaches: Discourse on a silent land : Marquesas, 1774-1880
History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch
Journal Article History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch. By Greg Dening. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1988. xx + 122 pp. Cloth, $25.25; paper, $9.75.) Get access David Goodman David Goodman University of Melbourne, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078137 Published: 01 June 1991
History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch
Mr Bligh's bad language: Passion, power, and theatre on the Bounty
"Captain Bligh and the voyage of the Bounty are the starting point of this new study of the famous mutiny in history, literature and film. By juxtaposing an account of the mutiny with an analysis of its evolving place in history and culture, Mr. Bligh's Bad Language offers a new interpretation of the mutiny in the context of its historical and cultural representations." "Beginning with an analysis of naval life and ritual aboard the Bounty, Greg …
The Theatricality of History Making and the Paradoxes of Acting
Essay review
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
Performances
Performances
Journal Article Performances. By Greg Dening. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xvi, 296 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-226-14297-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-226-14298-1.) Get access Craig Calhoun Craig Calhoun New York University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1096–1097, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953177 Published:…
Captain James Cook
Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature
Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature, David Philip Miller and Peter Harms Reill. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 370 pp
Writing, Rewriting the Beach: An Essay
Calcutta 1811. The rich travelled on the shoulders of the poor in Calcutta in 1811. Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, in his palanquin, bobbed along above the heads of the coolies and beggars in Tank Square. He did not see the short man with a sailor's gait and a scarred, near-toothless face. But Edward Robarts saw him. Seeing Raffles gave Robarts hope. For ten months on this, the harshest of his beaches, Robarts had been on the slide. Calcutta was a …
The Death of William Gooch: A History's Anthropology
Performances
Between worlds∗
Eulogy for Paul Bourke: Newman college chapel, Friday, 11 June 1999
IT WAS ON MY WATCH as chair of the board, and by my invitation, that Paul Bourke took up the editorship of Historical Studies. We were co‐conspirators, successful (we told one another) in breaking the hold of Melbourne over the journal; less successful (we also told one another) in broadening the concerns of the journal towards historical writing in Australia away from writing Australian history. This eulogy is more epitaph to a personal friendsh…
Enigma Variations on History in Three Keys: A Conversational Essay
Book reviewed in this article: History In Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth by Paul A. Cohen
Richard Price (1998), The Convict and the Colonel: A Story of Colonialism and Resistance in the Caribbean
Hans Turley — Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality and Masculine Identity
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Afterword
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