Richard Eves: 2 books
Bad Colonists
The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In Bad Colonists Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves provide a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting separate sets of letters by two late-nineteenth-century British colonists of the South Pacific: Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke. Thomas and Eves frame the letters—addressed...
The Magical Body
Power, Fame and Meaning in a Melanesian Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
An intriguing exploration of the role and significance of the body in the world of a Pacific Islands People, the Lelet of New Ireland (Papua New Guinea). In vivid ethnographic detail, the monograph captures the fluidity and complexity of Lelet conceptions of corporeality and their significance to...