Greg Dening
Australian historian
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- PhD History University of Melbourne
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Greg Dening was an Australian historian of the Pacific. Dening was born in Newcastle, New South Wales. He was educated at two Jesuit schools: St. Louis School in Perth and Xavier College in Melbourne. He received an MA from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from Harvard University, where his doctoral dissertation was a historical ethnography of the Marquesas Islands. From the late 1960s he became the centre of an ethnographic history school called the 'Melbourne Group'. He taught sociology and history at La Trobe University, Melbourne and one semester of anthropology at the University of Hawaiʻi before being appointed Max Crawford Professor of History at the University of Melbourne in 1971.
Greg Dening's Published Works
Published Works
- Mr Bligh's bad language : passion, power, and theatre on the Bounty (1994) (218)
- Islands and Beaches. Discourse on a Silent Land: Marquesas, 1774-1880 (1984) (214)
- Beach Crossings: Voyaging Across Times, Cultures, and Self (2004) (97)
- The Death of William Gooch: A History's Anthropology (1995) (53)
- History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch. (1988) (45)
- Writing, rewriting the beach : An essay (1998) (42)
- PERFORMING ON THE BEACHES OF THE MIND: AN ESSAY* (2002) (40)
- The Marquesan journal of Edward Robarts, 1797-1824 (1973) (40)
- Church Alive!: Pilgrimages in Faith, 1956-2006 (2007) (36)
- Mr Bligh's bad language (1992) (31)
- Islands and beaches (1980) (30)
- Ethnohistory in Polynesia: The value of ethnohistorical evidence (1966) (27)
- The Theatricality of History Making and the Paradoxes of Acting (1993) (15)
- Deep Times, Deep Spaces: Civilizing the Sea (2004) (15)
- Sea People of the West* (2007) (11)
- Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature (1997) (10)
- Living In and With Deep Time (2005) (9)
- History as a social system (1973) (8)
- History "in" the Pacific (1989) (8)
- Respectfulness as a performance art: way-finding (2008) (7)
- Sharks That Walk on the Land: The Death of Captain Cook (1982) (7)
- Enigma Variations on History in Three Keys: A Conversational Essay (2000) (5)
- The hegemony of laughter: Purea's theatre (1998) (5)
- Editor's Foreword (2000) (4)
- Voyaging the Past, Present, and Future: Historical Reenactmants on HM Bark Endeavour and the Voyaging Canoe Hokulea in the Sea of Islands (2003) (3)
- Hans Turley — Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality and Masculine Identity (2002) (3)
- Culture is talk. Living is story. (2003) (3)
- The Face of Battle: Valparaiso, 1814 (1983) (3)
- Change of editors (1985) (3)
- The Comaroffs out of Africa: A Reflection out of Oceania (2003) (2)
- Afterword: On the Befores and Afters of the Encounter (2017) (2)
- Endeavour and Hokule’a: The Theatre of Re-enactment Histories (2009) (2)
- Looking across the beach - both ways (2009) (2)
- Captain James Cook.@@@The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific.@@@How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example. (1997) (2)
- Claude Levi-Strauss Cooked (1971) (1)
- Review of Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii (1994) (1)
- Writing: Praxis and Performance (2009) (1)
- Licensed to land (1997) (1)
- Review Essay: A Shared Journey into Visual Sensual Aboriginality (2009) (1)
- Too Many Captain Cooks. "Citizen Labillardière: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834)" by Edward Duyker. [review] (2003) (1)
- Richard Price (1998), The Convict and the Colonel: A Story of Colonialism and Resistance in the Caribbean (2000) (1)
- "P 905 .A512 X 100": An Ethnographic Essay (1995) (1)
- Hunters and collectors. The antiquarian imagination in Australia [Book Review] (1997) (1)
- Encompassing Oceania: Some Beach Crossings (2002) (1)
- Eulogy for Paul Bourke: Newman college chapel, Friday, 11 June 1999 (1999) (1)
- Rectifications (2005) (1)
- Reading to Write (2001) (1)
- Rhys Isaac's Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom (2004) (0)
- Institutions of Violence in the Marquesas (2017) (0)
- Wallumetta The Other Side: Faith, Life and Worship on the North Shore 1856-2006 (2006) (0)
- Editorial: The editors (1982) (0)
- 5. Possessing Tahiti (2017) (0)
- DENING, GREGORY MOORE (EM. PROF.) (1969) (0)
- Islands and Beaches.@@@Early Tahiti. (1982) (0)
- The Hegemony of Laughter: Purea’s Theatre (0)
- Turtles All the Way Down [Book Review] (1995) (0)
- Editor's foreword (2004) (0)
- Afterword (2002) (0)
- Living in and with Deep Time Public Lecture, XII David Nichol Smith Conference, July 19, 2004 (2005) (0)
- O Mai! This is Mai: A Masque of a Sort (2001) (0)
- James Joyce and the Soul of Irish Jesuitry (2008) (0)
- The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas [Book Review] (2005) (0)
- Thoughts Of A Catholic Historian (2017) (0)
- Douglas Oliver, Two Tahitian Villages: A Study in Comparison (1985) (0)
- Essay review (1996) (0)
- Performing True Stories (2006) (0)
- Contributors (2002) (0)
- Giving the Past Its Dignity (2007) (0)
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