The history of the virtually unknown Marquesas islands, located about 500 miles south of the equator and 1,000 miles east of Tahiti, reflects a society's horrif

Acclaimed historian/anthropologist Greg Dening revisits the bloody history of the Marquesas and other islands in Oceania to craft an extended essay on human cha

This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally crea