This article examines how the Circum-Caribbean region’s cultural and geographic complexities make it difficult to describe or index relevant archival materials using mainstream authority controls used in galleries, libraries, archives, museums (GLAMs). difficulty stems from fact that utilised by GLAMs are primarily created North American European authorities and, therefore, have Western-centric...

This article examines representations of the PaciŽ c in the Ž lm Rapa Nui, in articles from National Geographic, and in the academic debate on cannibalism as epitomized by Marshall Sahlins’ and Gananath Obeyesekere’s discussion of Cook’s fate in Hawaii. While the area is typically the location of an Edenic paradise, in these texts it becomes the locus of apocalypse ending in cannibalism. Furthe...