Seeking to redress the Western view of Polynesians as "noble savages," created and perpetuated by the paintings of Gauguin and the fiction of writers such as Somerset Maugham and Herman Melville, Alpers reveals the Polynesians' own rich culture through this collection--in modern English--of their diverse oral literature that includes myths, legends, folk-tales, and poetry. The volume also contains 80 photographs of Polynesian flora and fauna, artifacts, and contemporary Polynesian people.
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Seeking to redress the Western view of Polynesians as "noble savages," created and perpetuated by the paintings of Gauguin and the fiction of writers such as Somerset Maugham and Herman Melville, Alpers reveals the Polynesians' own rich culture through this collection--in modern English--of their diverse oral literature that includes myths, legends, folk-tales, and poetry. The volume also contains 80 photographs of Polynesian flora and fauna, artifacts, and contemporary Polynesian people.
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