| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Oceania and the Pacific Islands

Greg Dening. Beach Crossings: Voyaging across Times, Cultures, and Self. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. Pp. ix, 376. $45.00.

Australian historian-anthropologist Greg Dening inaugurated a new genre of ethnohistorical writing in his books on early encounters between Westerners and Pacific Islanders. In this reflective and reflexive work he sums up his career on several fronts, using the metaphor of "the beach" for spaces of contact, negotiation, and transition. The diverse "beaches" explored here are geographical and temporal, historical and personal. For substantive material Dening draws from his decades of research on the culture and postcontact history of the Marquesas Islanders of Eastern Polynesia, whom Dening refers to as Enata, using the name they used for themselves.

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