The Art of Encounter: Verisimilitude in the Imaginary Exploration of Interior New Guinea, 1725–1876
There is an enduring paradox in the art of writing about cross-cultural encounters: in trying to convey something of the alterity or strangeness of an encounter, writers invariably fall back upon a limited range of entirely familiar conventions, shared understandings that enable them to convey the m...
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