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Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch,Roger C. Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 052178879X
An anthropological approach to long-term history through detailed reconstruction of the Ancestral Polynesian culture, Hawaiki.
Author : Stephenson Percy Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Hawaiian language
ISBN : UCLA:31158002197613
Author : Patrick D. Nunn
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824832193
Islands—as well as entire continents—are reputed to have disappeared in many parts of the world. Yet there is little information on this subject concerning its largest ocean, the Pacific. Over the years, geologists have amassed data that point to the undeniable fact of islands having disappeared in the Pacific, a phenomenon that the oral traditions of many groups of Pacific Islanders also highlight. There are even a few instances where fragments of Pacific continents have disappeared, becoming hidden from view rather than being submerged. In this scientifically rigorous yet readily comprehensible account of the fascinating subject of vanished islands and hidden continents in the Pacific, the author ranges far and wide, from explanations of the region’s ancient history to the meanings of island myths. Using both original and up-to-date information, he shows that there is real value in bringing together myths and the geological understanding of land movements. A description of the Pacific Basin and the "ups and downs" of the land within its vast ocean is followed by chapters explaining how—long before humans arrived in this part of the world—islands and continents that no longer exist were once present. A succinct account is given of human settlement of the region and the establishment of cultural contexts for the observation of occasional catastrophic earth-surface changes and their encryption in folklore. The author also addresses the persistent myths of a "sunken continent" in the Pacific, which became widespread after European arrival and were subsequently incorporated into new age and pseudoscience explanations of our planet and its inhabitants. Finally, he presents original data and research on island disappearances witnessed by humans, recorded in oral and written traditions, and judged by geoscience to be authentic. Examples are drawn from throughout the Pacific, showing that not only have islands collapsed, and even vanished, within the past few hundred years, but that they are also liable to do so in the future.
Author : Sam Low
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824875244
Attuned to a world of natural signs—the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells—Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing winds and currents aboard powerful double canoes to settle the vast Pacific Ocean. And they did this when Greek mariners still hugged the coast of an inland sea, and Europe was populated by stone-age farmers. Yet by the turn of the twentieth century, this story had been lost and Polynesians had become an oppressed minority in their own land. Then, in 1975, a replica of an ancient Hawaiian canoe—Hōkūle‘a—was launched to sail the ancient star paths, and help Hawaiians reclaim pride in the accomplishments of their ancestors. Hawaiki Rising tells this story in the words of the men and women who created and sailed aboard Hōkūle‘a. They speak of growing up at a time when their Hawaiian culture was in danger of extinction; of their vision of sailing ancestral sea-routes; and of the heartbreaking loss of Eddie Aikau in a courageous effort to save his crewmates when Hōkūle‘a capsized in a raging storm. We join a young Hawaiian, Nainoa Thompson, as he rediscovers the ancient star signs that guided his ancestors, navigates Hōkūle‘a to Tahiti, and becomes the first Hawaiian to find distant landfall without charts or instruments in a thousand years. Hawaiki Rising is the saga of an astonishing revival of indigenous culture by voyagers who took hold of the old story and sailed deep into their ancestral past.
Author : Margaret Orbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X002158754
Author : Stephenson Percy Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
ISBN : UOM:39015013089860
Author : Stephenson Percy Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Cook Islanders
ISBN : UCAL:B4380506
Author : Edward Tregear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Dictionaries. Maori-Polynesian
ISBN : HARVARD:32044042058503
"Māori dictionary with English definitions and Polynesian comparisons"--BIM.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Theosophy
ISBN : SRLF:A0003686284
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Science
ISBN : NYPL:33433011077850
Author : ANZAAS (Association)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Australia
ISBN : UOM:39015066692289
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11546596
Author : ANZAAS (Association)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Science
ISBN : UIUC:30112033553923
Author : Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCAL:B3872547
Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044041999251
Includes articles on issues of worldwide anthropological interest.