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Author : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39015001802555
Author : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 1432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824884536
“Tahiti is far famed yet too little known.” Thus wrote J. M. Orsmond in 1848, and the same assertion can be made in 1972. Thousands of pages had been published about Tahiti and its neighboring islands when Orsmond uttered his judgment, and tens of thousands have been published since that time, but a unified, comprehensive, and detailed description of the pre-European ways of life of the inhabitants of those Islands is yet to appear in print. The present work, lengthy as it is, makes no such claim to comprehensiveness; rather, it is concerned mainly with the social relations of those inhabitants, and it serves up only enough about their technology, their religion, their aesthetic expressions, and so forth to place descriptions of their social relations in context and render them more comprehensible. Volumes 1 and 2 of this work are a reconstruction of the Islanders’ way of life as it was believed to have been just before it began to be transformed by European influence—a period labeled the Late Indigenous Era. Volume 3 covers events in Tahiti and Mo‘orea from about 1767 to 1815—a period labeled the Early European Era.
Author : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39015010413907
"Tahiti is far famed yet too little known." Thus wrote J. M. Orsmond in 1848, and the same assertion can be made in 1972. Thousands of pages had been published about Tahiti and its neighboring islands when Orsmond uttered his judgment, and tens of thousands have been published since that time, but a unified, comprehensive, and detailed description of the pre-European ways of life of the inhabitants of those Islands is yet to appear in print. The present work, lengthy as it is, makes no such claim to comprehensiveness; rather, it is concerned mainly with the social relations of those inhabitants, and it serves up only enough about their technology, their religion, their aesthetic expressions, and so forth to place descriptions of their social relations in context and render them more comprehensible. Volumes 1 and 2 of this work are a reconstruction of the Islanders' way of life as it was believed to have been just before it began to be transformed by European influence-a period labeled the Late Indigenous Era. Volume 3 covers events in Tahiti and Mo'orea from about 1767 to 1815-a period labeled the Early European Era.
Author : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39015002676248
Author : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher : Sterling/Main Street
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039402537
2e de couv.: This book is based on two years of field study supplemented by the archival research that went into the writing of the author's three-volume Ancient Tahitian Society. It has three objectives: -to describe in detail the activities and social relations of rural Tahitians in the mid-twentieth century; -to do so by the method of "controlled comparison"; and in doing so -to focus on the economies of the villagers studied. The ways of life portrayed in these pages were products of nearly two centuries of contact between Polynesians and Europeans, but still contained many features of the aboriginal culture described in Ancient Tahitian Society. Subsequent to the field study, however, these islands were subjected to new and much more massive kinds of outside influences (mainly those resulting from expanded tourism and from France's nuclear experiments nearby), so that much of what is described in this book has disappeared, which lends extra value to the description - another relic to be placed in the Museum of Humanity's Past. Because of anthropologist's inability (and unwillingness) to conduct sufficiently controlled experiments upon the societies they study, the method of controlled comparison employed in writing this book has been proposed as the sole means of arriving at scientific generalizations. It is left to the reader to judge whether this opinion has been confirmed. As for the book's focus on the "economics of village life," an effort has been made to broaden the applicability and the usefulness of this way of viewing human societies-large or small industrialized or "primitive."
Author : Edmond de Bovis
Publisher : Institute for Polynesian Studies
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015022209061
Author : Victoria S. Lockwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1555873170
As culturally diverse, non-Western communities are drawn into the international division of labour, capitalism takes root in a number of ways. This book describes how capitalism has become a part of the lives of rural Tahitians, starting with the arrival of Westerners to the islands and detailing the nature of the transformation brought about by missionaries, merchants, and French colonisers - a transformation whose pace has accelerated with the islands' rapid modernisation and incorporation into the French welfare state.
Author : Robert I. Levy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1975-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226476070
This seminal work in several fields—person-centered anthropology, comparative psychology, and social history—documents the inner life of the Tahitians with sensitivity and insight. At the same time Levy reveals the ways in which private and public worlds interact. Tahitians is an ethnography focused on private but culturally organized behavior resulting in a wealth of material for the understanding of the interaction among historical, cultural, and personal spheres. "This is a unique addition to anthropological literature. . . . No review could substitute for reading it."—Margaret Mead, American Anthropologist
Author : Edward Smith Craighill Handy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004726116
Author : Irving Goldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Polynesia
ISBN : OCLC:417558371
Author : Ben R. Finney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351487146
The Polynesian island of Tahiti is in the imagination an island paradise, an idyllic world inhabited by noble savages, carefree and uncomplicated. Tahiti separates myth from reality. Finney describes and analyzes the forces of change that have confronted Tahiti and its inhabitants in the modern world. As the author notes in the introduction, "Neither isolation in the South Pacific, nor the romantic aura invested in them by philosophers and escapists of the West, has saved Tahitians from intense involvement in the twin processes of industrialization and urbanization." This study of Tahitian life concentrates upon two different communities. One is a peasant community moving from subsistence farming to an increased reliance upon the production of cash crops. The other is a proletarian community whose members were at the time abandoning farming and fishing in favor of wage labor. Finney compares the two contemporaneous communities, enabling him to define different but interrelated variables of the economic and social change. These are responsible for Tahiti's evolution from a subsistence oriented peasant life to a life based increasingly on cash crops and wage labor. What happens to family life, work patterns, land use, and other traditional modes of social organization when a small, underdeveloped society is confronted with economic forces largely beyond its control? In dealing with this question as it applies to Tahiti, Finney makes an important contribution to our understanding of how modernization affects a society once thought to be outside the boundaries of the modern world. A major study in English of the socio-economic forces at work in Tahiti, this book provides the reader with both an understanding of the changing nature of Tahitian life, and the reactions of Tahitians to such changes.
Author : David Stanley
Publisher : David Stanley
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : French Polynesia
ISBN : 0918373336
Author : Teuira Henry,John Muggridge Orsmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39015011368456
Author : Jennifer Newell
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824832810
In August 1803 two Russian ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva, set off on a round-the-world voyage to carry out scientific exploration and collect artifacts for Alexander I's ethnographical museum in St. Petersburg. Russia's strategic concerns in the north Pacific, however, led the Russian government to include as part of the expedition and embassy to Japan, headed by statesman Nikolai Rezanov, who was given authority over the ships' commanders without their knowledge. Between them the ships carried an ethnically and socially disparate group of men: Russian educated elite, German naturalists, Siberian merchants, Baltic Naval Officers, even Japanese passengers. Upon reaching Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas archipelago on May 7, 1804, and for the next twelve days, the naval officers revolted against Rezanov's command while complex cross-cultural encounters between Russians and islanders occurred. Elena Govor recounts the voyage, reconstructing and exploring in depth the tumultuous events of the Russians' stay in Nuku Hiva; the course of the mutiny, its resolution and aftermath; and the extent and nature of the contact between Nuku Hivans and Russians. Book jacket.
Author : Roseline NgCheong-Lum
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761406824
Geography and history - Government - Lifestyle and religion - Language - Arts and leisure - Festivals - Food.
