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Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch,Roger C. Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : IBP USA
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781438768533
Polynesia French Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information
Author : Christina Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062060891
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind. For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world. Sea People includes an 8-page photo insert, illustrations throughout, and 2 endpaper maps.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Serge Tcherkezoff
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921536021
This book explores the first encounters between Samoans and Europeans up to the arrival of the missionaries, using all available sources for the years 1722 to the 1830s, paying special attention to the first encounter on land with the Laperouse expedition. Many of the sources used are French, and some of difficult accessibility, and thus they have not previously been thoroughly examined by historians. Adding some Polynesian comparisons from beyond Samoa, and reconsidering the so-called 'Sahlins-Obeyesekere debate' about the fate of Captain Cook, 'First Contacts' in Polynesia advances a hypothesis about the contemporary interpretations made by the Polynesians of the nature of the Europeans, and about the actions that the Polynesians devised for this encounter: wrapping Europeans up in 'cloth' and presenting 'young girls' for 'sexual contact'. It also discusses how we can go back two centuries and attempt to reconstitute, even if only partially, the point of view of those who had to discover for themselves these Europeans whom they call 'Papalagi'. The book also contributes an additional dimension to the much-touted 'Mead-Freeman debate' which bears on the rules and values regulating adolescent sexuality in 'Samoan culture'. Scholars have long considered the pre-missionary times as a period in which freedom in sexuality for adolescents predominated. It appears now that this erroneous view emerged from a deep misinterpretation of Laperouse's and Dumont d'Urville's narratives.
Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521273161
A first study from an archaeological perspective of the elaborate systems of Polynesian chiefdoms presents an original account of the processes of cultural change and evolution over three millennia.
Author : Robert C. Suggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : LCCN:60014723
Author : Mervyn McLean
Publisher : Mervyn McLean
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780473288730
For more than twenty years the standard view among anthropologists has been that Polynesians evolved from a group of settlers known as Lapita people whose characteristically dentate-stamped pottery has been found on numerous mostly Melanesian sites, and who entered Fiji more than 3000 years ago from a starting point in the Bismarck Archipelago. An alternative view that champions Micronesia as a primary area of origin for Polynesians has been in limbo as a result of the prevailing theory, but is reappraised in the present book and found once again to be in contention. The book takes an historical view of theories of origin, and provides some account of methodologies used by scholarly disciplines which have been brought to bear on the subject, including evidence from music and dance, which forms the core of the book.
Author : Maile Renee Arvin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478005650
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polynesians Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia, especially in Hawai‘i. Arvin argues that a logic of possession through whiteness animates settler colonialism, by which both Polynesia (the place) and Polynesians (the people) become exotic, feminized belongings of whiteness. Seeing whiteness as indigenous to Polynesia provided white settlers with the justification needed to claim Polynesian lands and resources. Understood as possessions, Polynesians were and continue to be denied the privileges of whiteness. Yet Polynesians have long contested these classifications, claims, and cultural representations, and Arvin shows how their resistance to and refusal of white settler logic have regenerated Indigenous forms of recognition.
Author : Madi Williams
Publisher : Past Imperfect
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1641892145
A historical overview and thematic examination of Polynesia (especially New Zealand and its outlying islands), 900-1600.
Author : Jean-Claude Thibault,Alice Cibois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8416728054
Author : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1573061255
"This book presents a comprehensive and balanced description of major aspects of Polynesian cultures, using both the accounts of the European "discoverers" and the up-to-date writings of archaeologists and anthropologists".--BOOKJACKET.
Author : William Churchill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118505705
Author : William Ellis
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462904587
Polynesian Researches:Hawaii is the famous record of the author's visit to the Hawaiian Islands in the early nineteenth century. It includes an account of Hawaiian history, government, religion , warfare, and traditions- a general survey of Hawaiian life. More than this, it is the author's personal observations of Hawaiian manners and customs and is invaluable to anyone interested in old Hawaii. The author, Rev. William Ellis, lived in Polynesia as a missionary from 1817 to 1825. He spent much of his time in Tahiti and soon became fluent in the language. Before returning to England, he seized an opportunity to visit the Hawaiian Islands. He was soon able to talk with the natives in the Hawaiian language and made a tour of the island of Hawaii. On his tour he talked with chiefs, common people Hawaiian holy–men, and divinely possessed oracles. He climbed volcanoes, rode canoes, and visited the sight of Captain Cook's death. Besides the description of his tour, this book includes an account of Maui, Kahoolawe, Molokini, Lani, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai, Hiihau, and Kaula. The book is full of interesting descriptions of the author's encounters with Hawaiians. It is fast–moving and easy–reading. This book, an encyclopedic account of traditional Hawaii.
Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429969574
In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world Captain James Cook's three epic journeys in the 18th century were the last great voyages of discovery. His ships sailed 150,000 miles, from the Artic to the Antarctic, from Tasmania to Oregon, from Easter Island to Siberia. When Cook set off for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in Hawaii in 1779, the map of the world was substantially complete. Tony Horwitz vividly recounts Cook's voyages and the exotic scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice. He also relives Cook's adventures by following in the captain's wake to places such as Tahiti, Savage Island, and the Great Barrier Reef to discover Cook's embattled legacy in the present day. Signing on as a working crewman aboard a replica of Cook's vessel, Horwitz experiences the thrill and terror of sailing a tall ship. He also explores Cook the man: an impoverished farmboy who broke through the barriers of his class and time to become the greatest navigator in British history. By turns harrowing and hilarious, insightful and entertaining, BLUE LATITUDES brings to life a man whose voyages helped create the 'global village' we know today.