Title Cook & Omai : the cult of the South Seas / National Library of Australia

Published Parkes, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2001

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Description v, 66 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 22 cm Contents The cult of the south seas / Michelle Hetherington -- Spectacles of knowledge: OMAI as ethnographic travelogue / Iain McCalman -- Comedy in the OMAI pantomime / Christa Knellwolf -- Images of Mai / Caroline Turner -- Omai's things / Harriet Guest -- The art of ventriloquism: European imagination and the Pacific / Alexander Cook -- Mai, the other beyond the exotic stranger / Paul Turnbull -- O Mai! This is Mai: a masque of a sort / Greg Dening Notes Curated for the National Library of Australia by Michelle Hetherington in association with Iain McCalman and Alexander Cook of the Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University. -- t.p. verso Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Also available online at Also available online From the collection of Ron Vanderwal Subject Omai -- Travel -- England. Omai, South sea islander, 1753?- -- Travel -- England Omai, South sea islander, 1753?- -- In literature Omai -- Exhibitions. Omai -- Travel -- England -- Exhibitions. Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Exhibitions. Omai -- In literature. Omai, South sea islander, 1753?- -- England Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Friends and associates. Pacific Islanders -- England -- Exhibitions. Pacific Islanders -- England. Noble savage. SUBJECT England -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043286 Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs. Author Hetherington, Michelle. National Library of Australia. Humanities Research Centre (The Australian National University) ISBN 0642107319

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