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Author : John Stephen Athens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Archaeological surveying
ISBN : UOM:39015070733855
Author : Aymeric Hermann,Frédérique Valentin,Christophe Sand,Emilie Nolet
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789697162
This volume reflects the tremendous progress made in Pacific island archaeology in the last 60 years which has considerably advanced our knowledge of early Pacific island societies, the rise of traditional cultural systems, and their later historical developments from European contact onwards.
Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520968899
The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth’s surface and encompasses many thousands of islands that are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe navigators, the atoll dwellers of Micronesia, the statue carvers of remote Easter Island, and the famed traders of Melanesia. Decades of archaeological excavations—combined with allied research in historical linguistics, biological anthropology, and comparative ethnography—have revealed much new information about the long-term history of these societies and cultures. On the Road of the Winds synthesizes the grand sweep of human history in the Pacific Islands, beginning with the movement of early people out from Asia more than 40,000 years ago and tracing the development of myriad indigenous cultures up to the time of European contact in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. This updated edition, enhanced with many new illustrations and an extensive bibliography, synthesizes the latest archaeological, linguistic, and biological discoveries that reveal the vastness of ancient history in the Pacific Islands.
Author : Ethan E. Cochrane,Terry L. Hunt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199925070
"The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania presents the archaeology, linguistics, environment and human biology of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. First colonized 50,000 years ago, Oceania witnessed the independent invention of agriculture, the construction of Easter Island's statues, and the development of the word's last archaic states."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Paul Rainbird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521656303
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Author : David L. Hanlon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824883911
Upon a Stone Altar tells the history of a remarkable people who inhabit the island of Pohnpei in the Eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia. Since the beginnings of intensive foreign contact, Pohnpei has endured numerous disruptive conflicts as well as attempts at colonial domination. Pohnpeians creatively adapted to change and today live successfully in a modern world not totally of their own making. Hanlon uses the vast body of oral tradition to relate the early history of Pohnpei, including the story of the building of a huge complex of artificial stone islets, Nan Madol.
Author : Elfriede Hermann
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824860141
This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a series of inspiring essays, noted scholars of the region examine these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis. The collection marks a turning point in the debate on the conceptualization of tradition. Following a critique of how tradition has been viewed in terms of dichotomies like authenticity vs. inauthenticity, contributors stake out a novel perspective in which tradition figures as context-bound articulation. This makes it possible to view cultural traditions as resulting from interactions between people—their ideas, actions, and objects—and the ambient contexts. Such interactions are analyzed from the past down to the Oceanian present—with indigenous agency being highlighted. The work focuses first on early encounters, initially between Pacific Islanders themselves and later with the European navigators of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to clarify how meaningful actions and contexts interrelated in the past. The present-day memories of Pacific Islanders are examined to ask how such memories represent encounters that occurred long ago and how they influenced the social, political, economic, and religious changes that ensued. Next, contributors address ongoing social and structural interactions that social actors enlist to shape their traditions within the context of globalization and then the repercussions that these intersections and intercultural exchanges of discourses and practices are having on active identity formation as practiced by Pacific Islanders. Finally, two authorities on Oceania—who themselves move in the intersecting space between anthropology and history—discuss the essays and add their own valuable reflections. With its wealth of illuminating analyses and illustrations, Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of cultural and social anthropology, history, art history, museology, Pacific studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and literary criticism. Contributors: Aletta Biersack, Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon, Bronwen Douglas, David Hanlon, Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Peter Hempenstall, Margaret Jolly, Miriam Kahn, Martha Kaplan, John D. Kelly, Wolfgang Kempf, Gundolf Krüger, Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris, Lamont Lindstrom, Karen Nero, Ton Otto, Anne Salmond, Serge Tcherkézoff, Paul van der Grijp, Toon van Meijl.
Author : William N. Morgan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292786219
In the many centuries preceding Western contact, a richly diverse and innovative architectural tradition reached maturity in the western Pacific. Prehistoric Architecture in Micronesia, the first modern study of this remarkable work, reveals that there is no such thing as primitive architecture but only primitive means. This study presents five distinctly different examples of Micronesia's ancient architecture. The sites include the extraordinary stone cities of Leluh and Nan Madol on the islands of Kosrae and Pohnpei, respectively. Other structures include the meeting houses and residences built on hexagonal stone platforms in the Yap Islands, the earth terraces and ornately decorated meeting houses of Palau, and the megalithic columns and capstones of prehistoric houses in the Mariana Islands. These structures are illustrated by photographs, maps, plans, and other drawings. Many of the basic data come from archaeological investigations of the specific sites. Summaries at the ends of chapters and in the concluding section compare the architectural characteristics of the island groups with each other and with monuments outside Micronesia. One of the most remarkable achievements of any ancient people, the prehistoric architecture of Micronesia is a source of continuing inspiration for persons who search for meaning in the built form of our present-day environment.
Author : Hilary Howes,Tristen Jones,Matthew Spriggs
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781760464875
Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020, sought to bring together both notable and relatively unknown Pacific material culture and archival collections from around the globe, displaying them simultaneously in their home institutions and linked online at www.uncoveringpacificpasts.org. Thirty‑eight collecting institutions participated in UPP, including major collecting institutions in the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the Americas, as well as collecting institutions from across the Pacific.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013611657
Author : Atholl Anderson,Kaye Green,Foss Leach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015074278279
Introduction. Janet M. Davidson : a museum archaeologist / Roger C. Green -- 1. Early Maori disc pendants / Nigel Prickett -- 2. An archaeological collection of gourd artefacts from the Kohika lake village / Geoffrey Irwin, Rod Wallace and Stephanie Green -- 3. Cooking with pots -- again / Helen Leach -- 4. Metal pa kahawai - a post-contact fishing lure form in northern New Zealand / Ian Smith -- 5. A cache of fishhooks from Serendipity Cave, Jackson bay, New Zealand / Foss Leach -- 6. Horticultural site complexes on stony soils of the eastern North Island: an aerial interpretation / Kevin L. Jones -- 7. Ecuadorian sailing rafts and Oceanic landfalls / Atholl Anderson, Helene Martinsson-Wallin and Karen Stothert -- 8. Arthur Kempe of H MS Adventure and Veryan, Cornwall / Peter Gathercole -- 9. Meʻa lalanga and the category Koloa: intertwining value and history in Tonga / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- 10. Ancestral Polynesian fishing gear: archaeological insights from Tonga / David V. Burley and Richard Shutler jr -- 11. Reading Pacific pots / Geoffrey Clark and Duncan Wright -- 12. The rise of the Saudeleur: dating the Nan Madol chiefdom, Pohnpei / J. Stephen Athens -- 13. A study of gorges from the Gognga-Cove Beach Site, Tumon, Guam / Yosihiko H. Sinoto -- 14. The role of fishing lure shanks for the past people of Pohnpei, eastern Caroline Islands, Micronesia / Paul Rainbird -- 15. An assessment of shell fishhooks of the Lapita cultural complex / Katherine Szabó -- 16. The material culture of Makira / Moira White -- 17. Shalf-hole stone implements of New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Jim Specht -- 18. Pottery styles at Wañelek, Papua New Guinea / Susan Bulmer -- 19. Still vastly ingenious? Globalisation and the collecting of Pacific material cultures / Sean Mallon.
Author : Paul Rainbird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Micronesians
ISBN : UOM:39015051627225
Author : Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UIUC:30112007063735
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Micronesia
ISBN : UCSD:31822031454408
Author : Brian M. Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000009681598