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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Bougainville Island
ISBN : UCSC:32106018382215
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038707787
Author : Reilly Ridgell
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1573060011
Provides a background in Pacific geography, culture, and history, plus an overview of the different Pacific island groups.
Author : Bronwen Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134410859
Across the Great Divide tracks a Pacific historian's fruitful, ambivalent engagements with History and Anthropology, anticipating experiments in each discipline with the other's theories and praxis. The revised and new essays comprising this collection provide systematic critiques of aspects of received scholarly wisdom about Oceania and are linked by reflexive commentaries addressing recent postcolonial concerns. A varied but coherent set of ethnographic and historical narratives about colonial encounters in Island Melanesia is informed by particular critical focus on the paradoxes and politics of knowing indigenous pasts through colonial texts.
Author : George Brown
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Social Science
ISBN : OXFORD:305910326
Excerpt from Melanesians and Polynesians: Their Life-Histories Described and Compared MY acquaintance with the natives of the East and West Pacific extends over a term of forty eight years. During that time I resided in Samoa for fourteen years continuously, from 1860 to 1874, and I have often visited the group in later years. In 1875 I landed in New Britain, now named the Bismarck Archipel. At that time there was no white man living in the group, and practically nothing was known of those islands or of the people living there. I resided there until the end of 1880, with the exception of the time occupied by two visits to Australia, and I have revisited that group on several occasions since that time. My acquaintance with the great Solomon Islands group began in the year 1879, and since then I have visited the group on several occasions. During these many voyages I have visited Tonga, Fiji, New Hebrides, Santa Cruz, New Ireland, New Hanover, New Guinea, the large atolls of the Ontong Java and the Tasman groups, and many others of the smaller islands in the Pacific. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Stephen K. Sanderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135966218
This reissue of the now classic Sociological Worlds (originally published in 1995) attempts to present a comprehensive picture of human social life--from the perspective of the comparative-historical revolution in sociology and presents some of the best theoretical and empirical work that is now being done by comparative-historical sociologists, as well as work by their close cousins, socio-cultural anthropologists. From this perspective, readers gain a picture of the major ways in which human societies differ. For this new library edition, Professor Sanderson has provided both a new preface and three contributions that did not appear in the original edition.
Author : Timothy Earle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429970542
"Timothy Earle has set out to offer the most comprehensive view now available of the economic foundations of early societies, and it may well be that he has succeeded. Bronze Age Economics is a pioneering contribution to archaeological theory." —Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge
Author : Michelle Keown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199229130
Beginning with an overview of European representations of the Pacific, Michelle Keown presents a broad-ranging introduction to the postcolonial literatures of the Pacific from the late 1960s through to the new millennium, focusing mainly on writing in English, but also exploring the growing corpus of francophone and hispanophone Pacific writing.
Author : K.R. Howe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000858075
Where the Waves Fall (1984) centres the stories of the Pacific Islanders and how they were affected by European explorers and colonisers in this unique account of human settlement and cultural interchange in the Pacific islands. It follows the fortunes of the seafarers who discovered island after island in the world’s largest ocean, traces the development of their civilisations and examines in depth the interaction between them and the newcomers – European explorers, traders, beachcombers, missionaries, merchants – who from the sixteenth century came in an increasing series of waves. The book’s framework enables the author to throw new light on hitherto isolated events. Novel suggestions are advanced as to why some islands became ‘kingdoms’ in the earlier years of European contact and why others did not, and of how and why missionaries were accepted on some islands but not on others. Nor does Professor Howe shrink from provocative and at times controversial arguments concerning the ambitions and strategies of island leaders and indeed the overall nature and extent of the initiatives taken by the islanders.
Author : Jean-Claude Galey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Divine right of kings
ISBN : UCSC:32106009906576
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jerry D. Moore
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442270589
Visions of Culture: A Reader, Second Edition, is an anthology of articles about anthropological theorists.
Author : Thomas G. Harding,Ben J. Wallace
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1970-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780029138007
Cultures of the Pacific offers a selection of 28 readings representing anthropological research interests & cultural variation in the Pacific. The selections emphasize anthropological significance and relevance rather than substantive and geographical coverage. The articles are divided into 6 topical areas of major importance: Culture History Technology & Economics Social Life Politics & Social Control Religion Culture Change Among the selections included are "The Kon-Tiki Myth" by Robert C. Suggs, "The Primitive Economics of the Trobriand Islanders" by Bronislaw Malinowski, and "The Rights of Primitive Peoples" by Margaret Mead. Many of the selections, including 4 previously unpublished papers, have not been readily available to the reader. Editors' introductions to each section indicate the place of the individual contributions in Pacific studies in particular and in anthropology in general. Illustrations & tables complement the text. Cultures of the Pacific is designed primarily for undergraduate & graduate courses in the anthropology of Pacific peoples & cultures. It will also find application in courses dealing with the cultural geography & history of the Pacific, as well as those concerned with the political science & economic development of the area.
Author : Sally Edridge
Publisher : Suva, Fiji : Institute of Pacific Studies, the University of the South Pacific
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Solomon Islands
ISBN : IND:39000000869953
Author : Max Quanchi,Ron W. Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521422841
The authors have brought together a collection of works from specialists in Pacific History from across Australia and throughout the Pacific. The individual contributions were specifically written to meet the needs of senior history courses in Australia. Max Quanchi and Ron Adams are well-known educationists who have specialised in the pacific. They have extensively travelled and studied in the Pacific and have spent many years teaching history to secondary and fertiary students. The result is an authoritative text for all senior History and Australian Studies students who need to understand the Pacific region.
Author : Stephanie Lawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009427616
The most comprehensive study of regional politics in Oceania produced to date. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary sources and providing a systematic account of major issues facing the region, this book will appeal to anyone engaged in any aspect of regional studies in Oceania and beyond.
