'Far better than their reputation': the Tolai of East New Britain in the Writings of Otto Finsch

Howes, Hilary

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'Far better than their reputation': the Tolai of East New Britain in the Writings of Otto Finsch

Date

2018

Authors

Howes, Hilary

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Abstract

In this chapter, I critically compare 'Tapinowanne Torondoluan: New Pomerania's first world traveller (1882)' with other writings by its author, Otto Finsch, as well as with accounts of local lifeways and cross-cultural encounters in New Pomerania (now New Britain) by other historical and contemporary authors.