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Douze Jours À Nuku Hiva by Elena Govor (Hardback)
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9789464260199
Published:
28 Dec 2021
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
408 pages
Dimensions:
254x203mm
Weight:
0.000kgs
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1804, 1ère expédition russe autour du monde : découvertes de l'Autre, d'Ailleurs et de soi, à Nuku Hiva.
Charts the experiences of the first Russian voyage to the Pacific in 1804, and the 12 days they spent on Nuku Hiva Island in the Marquesas (French Polynesia). French language.
La première expédition russe autour du monde, à l'aube du dix-neuvième siècle, fit suite à celles de Bougainville, Cook et La Pérouse. Menée par le commandant balte-allemand Adam von Krusenstern, elle était, à elle seule, tout un monde composé de savants et naturalistes, d'officiers et marins moujiks, d'un ambassadeur de la cour du tsar et de quelques marins Japonais embarqués sur la Nadezhda et la Neva. Ces Russes de divers ethnies de l'empire et au-delà : Estoniens, Baltes, Allemands, Tartares ou Suisse, abordèrent en mai 1804 aux Marquises (Polynésie française). La rencontre de ces mondes offre un inestimable instantané de la société de Nuku Hiva à la veille d'un profond changement. Douze jours plus tard, elle quittait l'île ébranlée par un amer litige entre les capitaines et le représentant du tsar à bord, mais aussi chargée de nourriture, d'eau douce et de dizaines de témoignages, matériels et immatériels, d'un "Français marquisien", de croquis et tatouages. De retour au pays, ces hommes livrèrent toutes sortes de récits et souvenirs, autour d'eux, véhiculés en diverses langues mais au fil des aléas de l'Histoire, guerres et révolutions, ils se dispersèrent à travers l'Europe, l'Amérique, l'Asie, leurs archives et leurs musées. C'est aujourd'hui le temps de rapprocher Marquisiens et Occidentaux de pages uniques de leur histoire et héritage culturel. Dans cet ouvrage sont réunis, pour la première fois en français, ces pans de récits. Grâce à une collection d'illustrations plus vaste que l'édition anglaise originale de 2010, aux vocabulaires et annotations de Marie-Noëlle Ottino-Garanger, il est apporté un éclairage, aussi riche que possible, sur cette étonnante aventure humaine. English abstract The first Russian voyage around the world was launched at the turn of the nineteenth century in the wake of Bougainville's, Cook's and La Perouse's expeditions to the Pacific. Led by the Baltic German commander Adam von Krusenstern, the expedition comprised a diverse intellectual community of savants and naturalists from Switzerland, Germany, modern day Estonia, and Russia. In May 1804, the ships Nadezhda and Neva berthed at Nuku Hiva Island in the Marquesas (French Polynesia), recording an invaluable snapshot of traditional Nuku Hivan society on the eve of profound cultural change. Twelve days later, reeling from a bitter conflict between the captains and the onboard representative of the Russian Tsar, the ships left the island laden with food, sweet water, knowledge, artefacts, scores of sketches, "a French-marquesan" and many tattoos. On their return home, they told their stories in a variety of voices, languages, genres and media which have since been scattered by wars and revolution across the archives and museums of Europe, America and Asia. The time is here to reunite Marquesans with this unique page of their history and cultural heritage. This study, for the first time in the French language, brings together these disparate stories and images. With a collection of images far vaster than that of the original 2010 English edition, along with vocabularies, data drawn from the records of the expedition members, and extensive notes by Marie-Noëlle Ottino-Garanger providing broader context, this edition is encyclopaedic in its scope.
About the Author: Elena Govor was born in Russia and now lives in Australia, where she completed her doctorate in history at the Australian National University in 1996. Her research focuses on cross-cultural contacts between Russians and the peoples of the Pacific and Australia, in publications including: 'Speckled Bodies: Russian Voyagers and Nuku Hivans, 1804' in Nicholas Thomas et al., Tattoo: Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and the West (Reaktion Books, 2005); Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva: Russian Encounters and Mutiny in the South Pacific (UHP, 2010), chapters about South Pacific collections in Russian museums in Pacific Presences: Oceanic Art & European Museums, and Tiki: Marquesan Art and the Krusenstern Expedition. In affiliation with the Australian National University, she has collaborated on the international projects: 'Tatau/tattoo: Embodied art and cultural exchange' (Getty Grant Program); 'Artefacts of encounter' and 'Pacific Presences: Oceanic art and European museums' (Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology); and 'The collective biography of archaeology in the Pacific - a hidden history' (ANU). In 2003 she visited Nuku Hiva in the footsteps of the Krusenstern expedition; and conducted fieldwork in 2010, 2011 and 2014 in New Guinea and New Caledonia. She is currently working with Chris Ballard (ANU) on a long-term project researching Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay's exploration, encounters and drawings in Oceania.
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