The Death of William Gooch: A History's Anthropology

The Death of William Gooch: A History's Anthropology

Editorial Reviews
Christina Thompson, The Age
'a Deningesque double helix of findings and speculation, past and present, subject and author'

Book Description
William Gooch died at Waimea on the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian chain. Pahupu, Hawaiian warriors 'cut-in-two' by their tattoos, killed him there. He was only twenty-two. Gooch's is a short life indeed on which to base a book. But Greg Dening uses the incident of his murder as the basis for a penetrating study of historical narrative and meaning. Gooch, the young astronomer on board the Daedalus, is written into history through the perceptions and intentions of the historian. This is 'history's anthropology'. The layers of interpretation and meaning are woven into the fabric of the history itself.

The Death of William Gooch: A History's Anthropology

The Death of William Gooch: A History's Anthropology,Greg Dening,Melbourne Univ Pr,0522846920,Australia - History,Cultural And Social Anthropology,History: American

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