Noa Noa : * "Noa Noa", by Paul Gauguin, O.T. Theis tr. [1919], p. 5 NOA NOA "Dites, qu'avez-vous vu?" CHARLES BAUDELAIRE. ON the eighth of June, during the night, after a sixty-three days' voyage, sixty-three days of feverish expectancy, we perceived strange fires, moving in zigzags on the se...
Untitled : When I was studying ethnography at UCLA, the instructors spent a lot of time drumming into us the necessity of being a detached observer. "Going native" was considered the ultimate slur against a fellow anthropologist. And yet, some of the best information that we have about some societies comes...
Title Page : * "Noa Noa", by Paul Gauguin, O.T. Theis tr. [1919], NOA NOA BY PAUL GAUGUIN Translated From The French By O[TTO] F[REDERICK] THEIS New York: Nicholas L. Brown [1919] Scanned , September 2006. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because...