Summary
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| As we admire the cultural achievements of the Sea of Islands peoples and wonder a little at the skills of such polymaths as Johann Forster, this talk looks at the museums and theatre the Tahitian people made of the European strangers. The Maohi had their own polymath - Tupaia, priest, architect, way-finder, painter, map-maker of hundreds of islands that Cook was never able to discover. Tupaia and Forster are two heroes of mine in the encompassment of the Sea of Islands. |
Speaker
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Greg Dening has written some dozen books on the cross-cultural history of the Pacific. After his retirement from the Max Crawford Chair of History at the University of Melbourne in 1991, he was an adjunct professor at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University where he conducted postgraduate workshops on the creative imagination in the presentation of scholarly knowledge. He wrote Beach Crossings: Voyaging across Times, Cultures and Self (2004).
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