Writing Pacific History
EW techniques are needed for the proper study of Pacific history, contends Dr. Francis West, Senior Lecturer in History at Victoria University College, whose two talks on The Writing and Re-writing of Pacific History will be heard soon from YC stations. In the Pacific Islands the historian is faced with a multicultural situation that has in the past been interpreted only in the terms of the historian’s own culture. "How can the historian go behind the defective written records to the reality of the situation? The short answer is that he can only do so in so far as he breaks out of the traditional methods of history. . . The historian must, in fact, become something of an anthropologist if he is to go behind the documents to the other culture involved in his field of study." The first talk on Writing and Re-writing Pacific History will be heard from 1YC, 9.30 p.m., Friday, March 1.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 9
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158Writing Pacific History New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 9
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