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. Pacific book, the autoethnography beach crossings, is a. Greg had recently had a multiple heart bypass and taken up jogging as a health measure. In beach crossings, published 24 years after islands and beaches, dening includes even more autobiography in order to draw parallels between his crossings from priesthood to career as a scholareducator and the crossings of his subjects polynesian voyagers and the european beachcombers, artists, and writers.
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. William gooch died at waimea on the island of oahu in the hawaiian chain. He was bemused by the culture of envy in academia and the blood sport of debunking. Beach crossings i have always admired the work of greg dening and i particularly like the title of his 2004 book beach crossings, contemplating fi ft y years of writing about oceania. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Performances by dening, greg published by university of chicago press hardcover sep 30, 1996. Blighs bad language, performances, and readingswritings. 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. Save over 20% credits will not expire, so you can use them at any time. More than fifty years of denings pacific research, teachings, travels, and reflections have resulted here in an engaging twothousandyear. In the view from the beach, the forefront is all detail and movement, all history, one is tempted to say. Greg dening 1931 march 2008 was an australian historian of the pacific. Join us at the state library of victoria as we celebrate. 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.
It was not the nature of denings criticism to boundaryride or pointscore. Louis school in perth and xavier college in melbourne. Pdf on dec 1, 2008, bronwen douglas and others published greg dening. As dening said in his semiautobiographical beach crossings. To cite this article douglas, bronwen2008 greg dening. Gregs last pacific book, the autoethnography beach crossings, is a memorial. Voyaging across times, cultures, and self, ethnographic historian greg dening tells elegant tales of adventure, discovery, and belonging. Australian historiananthropologist greg dening inaugurated a new genre of ethnohistorical writing in his books on early encounters between. Goochs is a short life indeed on which to base a book. Greg had recently had a multiple heart bypass and taken up jogging as a. Pahupu, hawaiian warriors cutintwo by their tattoos, killed him there. Marquesas 17711880 after a chance meeting with an old marquesas man by the name of teifitu in 1974. Voyaging across times, cultures, and self, ethnographic historian greg dening tells elegant tales of adventure, discovery, and belonging that take place in and around fenuaenata, more commonly known as the marquesas.
Looking across the beach both ways national museum of. 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. Voyaging across times, cultures, and self 9780812238495. Brent clough when a book titled beach crossings by greg dening virtually. Search the catalogue for collection items held by the national library of australia.
Dening, an exjesuit, also writes extensively, but not in sharp detail, about his own life and his intellectual and emotional engagement with the subject of his research and writing, so that the book emerges primarily as a personal memoir. Distinguished historian anthropologist greg dening here revisits the isl. Type book authors greg dening date 2004 publisher melbourne university publishing pub place carlton, vic isbn10 0522848869. Beach crossings is part memoir, part history, and part imaginative exploration of the symbolic strip of land where ocean meets beach. Blighs bad language, dening writes here an intensely personal, compelling reflection upon his crossings, his subjectsand ours. 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. Remembering greg dening, the contemporary pacific deepdyve. He also wrote a wonderful book titles mr blighs bad language a meditation on the mutiny on the bounty. Voyaging across times, cultures, and self by greg dening. Greg s last pacific book, the autoethnography beach crossings, is a memorial to jonathan whose crossing was too brief.
But greg dening uses the incident of his murder as the basis for a penetrating study of historical narrative and meaning. He is a fellow of the academy of social sciences of australia. Book authors greg dening date 2004 publisher melbourne university publishing pub place carlton, vic. I like the title because it resonates with my relationship with john. Voyaging across times, cultures, and self, ethnographic historian greg. Greg beach is an educator, writer, gardener and brewer based in atlanta, georgia. To cite this article douglas, bronwen2008greg dening. Voyaging across times, cultures and self melbourne and philadelphia, 2004 is his latest book. Historians, anthropologists, and humanists alike, curl into your favorite reading position and pick up this engaging, inspiring book. 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.
He returned numerous times over the years, including a. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers all about beach crossings. Dening was born in 1931 and attended the jesuitrun schools of st. In readingswritings his aim is to cultivate our imaginations so that we might see further. Not a book, scattered notes, unconnected, like dreams, like life, made of bits and pieces. 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. 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. Voyaging across times, cultures and self 2004, in life as in work the gamble is being yourself. Born in boston, massachusetts, greg currently works as a high school social studies teacher at atlanta public schools. He returned numerous times over the years, including a sixmonth visit as the john a burns.
He returned numer ous times over the years, including a sixmonth visit as the john a burns. Greg dening news newspapers books scholar jstor may 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message. Greg dening is adjunct professor at the centre for crosscultural research, australian national university, canberra, act, australia. Beach crossings is for greg dening a summary work, the apex of a fiftyyear career that has taken him across many beaches and oceans. 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. There is no beach without sea, no sea without sky, no sky without the earths curve. 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. Finding a shared knowledge with teifitu and a continued relationship, both dening and teifitu made the effort to cross the beach. Beach crossings pacific footprints is a meditation in words and. Jan 01, 2010 it placed, as dening might say, the postcolonial mind on the beach, ready for all manner of encounter with difference. It placed, as dening might say, the postcolonial mind on the beach, ready for all manner of encounter with difference. Voyaging across times, cultures, and self oct 1, 2004. 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.
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. 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. In beach crossings, published 24 years after islands and beaches, dening. About this title may belong to another edition of this title.
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. 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 was inspired to write islands and beaches. There is a wonderful book that has just been written called beach crossings, voyaging across times, cultures and self. 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. Blighs bad language, dening writes here an intensely personal, compelling reflection upon his crossings, his subjectsand oursmore. He then went on to the universities of melbourne and harvard.
Explore books by greg dening with our selection at. 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. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. Australian historiananthropologist greg dening inaugurated a new genre of ethnohistorical writing in his books on early encounters between westerners and pacific islanders. Perhaps it might seem intrusive to present my believing self in the stories of others crossing. 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. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. 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. Perhaps it might seem intrusive to present my believing self in the stories of others crossing, but there is a nakedness on beaches that i would share. 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. 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. He believed in the gerund form over the plain noun, for life was in the living of it, not in the word life. 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.
Dening, greg 19312008 people and organisations trove. Greg dening 19312008 history workshop journal oxford. He has much to say about his own beach crossings, but skimmingly, with little depth or substance. Follow greg dening and explore their bibliography from s greg dening author page. 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. Reading is a dance on the beaches of the mind, writes greg dening. Writing it, teaching it, reading it fills the days and years of my life.
Greg dening 1931 march 2008 was an australian historian of the pacific dening born in newcastle, new south wales. Historical reenactmants on hm bark endeavour and the voyaging canoe hokulea in the sea of islands. He returned numerous times over the years, including a sixmonth visit as the john a burns distinguished visiting professor of history for the spring 1981 semester. Dec 04, 2005 historians, anthropologists, and humanists alike, curl into your favorite reading position and pick up this engaging, inspiring book. I can think of our partnership as a mutual beach crossing. Greg dening and the invigoration of indigenous pacific history. His valedictory book, beach crossings 2004, glows with this spirit.
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