TY - JOUR
T1 - Dumont d'Urville's oceania
AU - Clark, Geoffrey
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Dumont d'Urville's 1832 popular division of Oceania into the enduring 'provinces' of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia created a geographic and intellectual framework for much recent and previous research in the social sciences. Despite criticism and alternative renderings, there is no evidence that Dumont d'Urville's tripartite division of the Pacific, now more than 170 years old, is in any danger of being replaced. It is necessary, therefore, to periodically re-examine the historical development of his three geo-culture areas and the conceptual issues that arise from their deployment in modern contexts.
AB - Dumont d'Urville's 1832 popular division of Oceania into the enduring 'provinces' of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia created a geographic and intellectual framework for much recent and previous research in the social sciences. Despite criticism and alternative renderings, there is no evidence that Dumont d'Urville's tripartite division of the Pacific, now more than 170 years old, is in any danger of being replaced. It is necessary, therefore, to periodically re-examine the historical development of his three geo-culture areas and the conceptual issues that arise from their deployment in modern contexts.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=11044220048&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0022334032000120503
DO - 10.1080/0022334032000120503
M3 - Review article
SN - 0022-3344
VL - 38
SP - 155
EP - 161
JO - Journal of Pacific History
JF - Journal of Pacific History
IS - 2
ER -