Early American Contacts in Polynesia and Fiji
Author : Ernest Stanley Dodge
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Fiji
ISBN :
Author : Ernest Stanley Dodge
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Fiji
ISBN :
Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2011-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759120064
The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored evidence provide a stronger case than ever before for multiple prehistoric Polynesian landfalls. This book reviews the debate, evaluates theoretical trends that have discouraged consideration of trans-oceanic contacts, summarizes the historic evidence and supplements it with recent archaeological, linguistic, botanical, and physical anthropological findings. Written by leading experts in their fields, this is a must-have volume for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and anyone else interested in the remarkable long-distance voyages made by Polynesians. The combined evidence is used to argue that that Polynesians almost certainly made landfall in southern South America on the coast of Chile, in northern South America in the vicinity of the Gulf of Guayaquil, and on the coast of southern California in North America.
Author : Paul Rivet
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Polynesia
ISBN :
Author : Wallace Patrick Strauss
Publisher : East Lansing : ichigan State University Press, 1963 [i.e.1964]
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Americans
ISBN :
History of the first American traders, explorers and missionaries to visit the Polynesian islands.
Author : Andrew Sharp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Māori (New Zealand people)
ISBN :
Author : Mary Davis Wallis
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiji
ISBN : 9789820200951
Author :
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9781422371763
Author : Serge Tcherkezoff
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1921536020
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 : John Gascoigne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1107729017
The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans sought to extend control to all quarters of the earth through the spread of beliefs, the promotion of trade and the acquisition of new knowledge. This book surveys the consequent encounters between European expansionism and the peoples of the Pacific. John Gascoigne weaves together the stories of British, French, Spanish, Dutch and Russian voyages to destinations throughout the Pacific region. In a lively and lucid style, he brings to life the idealism, adventures and frustrations of a colourful cast of historical figures. Drawing upon a range of fields, he explores the complexities of the relationships between European and Pacific peoples. Richly illustrated with historical images and maps, this seminal work provides new perspectives on the significance of European contact with the Pacific in the Enlightenment.
Author : Sean Brawley
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0739193368
The South Seas charts the idea of the South Seas in popular cultural productions of the English-speaking world, from the beginnings of the Western enterprise in the Pacific until the eve of the Pacific War. Building on the notion that the influences on the creation of a text, and the ways in which its audience receives the text, are essential for understanding the historical significance of particular productions, Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon explore the ways in which authors’ and producers’ ideas about the South Seas were “haunted” by others who had written on the subject, and how they in turn influenced future generations of knowledge producers. The South Seas is unique in its examination of an array of cultural texts. Along with the foundational literary texts that established and perpetuated the South Seas tradition in written form, the authorsexplore diverse cultural forms such as art, music, theater, film, fairs, platform speakers, surfing culture, and tourism.