Oceans Apart: Art and the Pacific with James Fox
Season 1
2018tvReturning Series1 Season · 3 Ep
Documentary
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Network: BBC Four
Season aired: 2018-09-10
Overview
Art historian Dr James Fox traces the momentous impact of the west's contact with the peoples and cultures of the Pacific. It is a story of exploration, encounter and exploitation.
Episodes · 3
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1
Australia
59m2018-09-10
James Fox tells the story of Australia's indigenous culture, the oldest continuous culture anywhere in the world.
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2
Polynesia
59m2018-09-17
In his exploration of the collision of the West and Pacific culture, James Fox explores how the West has created a vision of Polynesia as paradise.
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3
New Zealand
59m2018-09-24
James Fox explores how New Zealand's indigenous Maori people resisted colonisation and marginalisation and maintained their distinctive culture.
