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Author : John Macmillan Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Chile
ISBN : UOM:39015028722752
"Ethnology of Easter island compared and contrasted with that of Polynesia and Micronesia"--Bagnall.
Author : John Macmillan Brown
Publisher : Adventures Unlimited Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0932813291
The video companion to Childress's book Extraterrestrial Archeology. It reveals shocking evidence that many of the planets and moons in our solar system are or have been inhabited. Childress examines evidence that NASA faked the Apollo Moon landings.
Author : Jeffrey A. Geiger
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824830663
The enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the west—connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life. Facing the Pacific is the first study to offer a detailed look at the United States’ intense engagement with the myth of the South Seas just after the First World War, when, at home, a popular vogue for all things Polynesian seemed to echo the expansion of U.S. imperialist activities abroad. Jeffrey Geiger looks at a variety of texts that helped to invent a vision of Polynesia for U.S. audiences, focusing on a group of writers and filmmakers whose mutual fascination with the South Pacific drew them together—and would eventually drive some of them apart. Key figures discussed in this volume are Frederick O’Brien, author of the bestseller White Shadows in the South Seas; filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, who collaborated on Moana; director W. S. Van Dyke, who worked with Robert Flaherty on MGM’s adaptation of White Shadows; and Expressionist director F. W. Murnau, whose last film, Tabu, was co-directed with Flaherty.
Author : Geoffrey Clark,Mirani Litster
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760464899
When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space – even reaching what he described as the gentle and benign southern ocean nations. This volume discusses archaeological evidence of conflict from those southern oceans, from Palau and Guam, to Australia, Vanuatu and Tonga, the Marquesas, Easter Island and New Zealand. The evidence for conflict and warfare encompasses defensive earthworks on Palau, fortifications on Tonga, and intricate pa sites in New Zealand. It reports evidence of reciprocal sacrifice to appease deities in several island nations, and skirmishes and smaller scale conflicts, including in Easter Island. This volume traces aspects of colonial-era conflict in Australia and frontier battles in Vanuatu, and discusses depictions of World War II materiel in the rock art of Arnhem Land. Among the causes and motives discussed in these papers are pressure on resources, the ebb and flow of significant climate events, and the significant association of conflict with culture contact. The volume, necessarily selective, eclectic and wide-ranging, includes an incisive introduction that situates the evidence persuasively in the broader scholarship addressing the history of human warfare.
Author : John Shertzer Hittell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOMDLP:agm5375:0001.001
Author : K. R. Howe
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0824827503
Did they come from space, from Egypt, from the Americas? From other ancient civilizations? These are some of today's most fanciful claims about the first settlers of the islands of the Pacific. But none of them correctly answer the question: Where did the Polynesians come from? This book is a thoughtful and devastating critique of such "new" learning, and a careful and accessible survey of modern archaeological, anthropological, genetic, and linguistics findings about the origins of Pacific Islanders. Professor Howe also examines the two-hundred-year-old history of Western ideas about Polynesian origins in the context of ever-changing fads and intellectual fashions.
Author : Patrick Geryl,Gino Ratinckx
Publisher : Adventures Unlimited Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0932813917
In the year 2012 the Earth awaits a super catastrophe: its magnetic field will turn over in one go. Phenomenal earthquakes and tidal waves will completely destroy our civilisation. Europe and North America will shift thousands of kilometres northwards into polar climate. Nearly the whole earth's population will perish in the apocalyptic happenings. These dire predictions stem from Mayans and Egyptians -- descendants of the legendary Atlantis. The Atlanteans had highly evolved astronomical knowledge and were able to exactly calculate the previous world-wide flood in 9792 BC. They built tens of thousands of mandjits and escaped to South America and Egypt. In the year 2012 Venus, Orion and several other stars will take the same 'code positions' as in 9792 BC, the year of the previous cataclysm! For thousands of years historical sources have told of a forgotten time capsule of ancient wisdom located in a mythical labyrinth of secret chambers filled with artefacts and documents from the previous flood -- this book gives one possible location.
Author : Carla Manfredi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319983134
This book tackles photography’s role during Robert Louis Stevenson’s travels throughout the Pacific Island region and is the first study of his family’s previously unpublished photographs. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book integrates photographs with letters, non-fiction, and poetry, and includes much unpublished material. The original readings of photographs and non-fiction highlight Stevenson’s engagement with colonial ideology and reality and advance new arguments about Victorian travel, settlement, and colonialisms in the Pacific. Like the Stevensons, the book moves from the Marquesas to the atolls of the Gilbert Islands in Micronesia; from the Kingdom of Hawai‘i’s political ambitions to Samoan plantations and the Stevensons’ settlement at Vailima. Central to this study is the notion that Pacific history and Pacific Island cultures matter to the interpretation of Stevenson's work, and a rigorous historical and cultural contextualization ensures that local details structure literary and photographic interpretation. The book’s historical grounding is key to its insightful conclusions regarding travel, settlement, photography, and colonialism.
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555076186
Author : Jione Havea
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030743659
This book offers engagements with topics in mainline theology that concern the lifelines in and of the Pacific (Pasifika). The essays are grouped into three clusters. The first, Roots, explores the many roots from which theologies in and of Pasifika grow – sea and (is)land, Christian teachings and scriptures, native traditions and island ways. The second, Reads, presents theologies informed and inspired by readings of written and oral texts, missionary traps and propaganda, and teachings and practices of local churches. The final cluster, Routes, places Pasifika theologies upon the waters so that they may navigate and voyage. The ‘amanaki (hope) of this work is in keeping talanoa (dialogue) going, in pushing back tendencies to wedge the theologies in and of Pasifika, and in putting native wisdom upon the waters. As these Christian and native theologies voyage, they chart Pasifika’s sea of theologies.
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Indians
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097928899
Author : K. R. Howe
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824822862
This text places Oceania in a broad global and intellectual context and explores the meeting of two perceived entities - the west and Pacific peoples. It incorporates such diverse topics as notions of paradise, human destiny, technology, knowing, colonialism, racism, gender, and more.
Author : Deryck Scarr
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Islands of the Pacific
ISBN : 0700712933
"Deryck Scarr examines the Pacific Islands' indigenous social, economic and political systems and then places in context the post-sixteenth-century European 'discovery' of the Pacific. Cultural, political, trading, social and personal exchanges in Island worlds are described and analysed, from 1767 to the year 2000. Throughout the book, the Island world and its people on land and on the sea are held firmly in the foreground." -- from the dust jacket.
Author : Grenville M. Dodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Railroads
ISBN : HARVARD:HB115M
Author : Robert Bunting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019218846
This work chronicles the struggle for the Douglas-fir region, from the first sustained contact between native American and Euro-American cultures to 1900, when Fredrick Weyerhaeuser's purchase of some of the area completed one of the largest land deals in US history.
