Early contacts between Polynesia and America
Author : Paul Rivet
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Polynesia
ISBN :
Author : Paul Rivet
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Polynesia
ISBN :
Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 27,71 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 : Andrea Ballesteros - Danel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 3031648773
Author : John Leon Sorenson
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic dissertations
ISBN :
Author : Christina Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062060899
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 : Wallace Patrick Strauss
Publisher : East Lansing : ichigan State University Press, 1963 [i.e.1964]
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 28,53 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Americans
ISBN :
History of the first American traders, explorers and missionaries to visit the Polynesian islands.
Author : Maile Renee Arvin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478005653
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 : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781573061254
"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 : Edwin N. Ferdon
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816510269
Ethnographic observations and experiences on the Tongan Islands up to 1810—just prior to intensive Christian missionary activities—provide an early historic baseline of culture for those interested in alter culture change in Tonga, the only Polynesian island group that has never been ruled by outsiders. Ferdon has drawn on a variety of records to provide a well-documented and highly readable account of major aspects of Tongan life—material culture, government, food and drink, recreation, customs, trade, and warfare—at the time when European influences were only beginning to modify traditional island patterns. The ethnohistorical approach to early Tongan culture offers not only a fascinating glimpse into a world long past but also a basis for the comparative study of European acculturation throughout Polynesia. Edwin N. Ferdon first became interested in early Polynesia while serving as an archaeologist with Thor Heyerdahl’s 1955 expedition to Easter Island. He is also the author of Early Tahiti As the Explorers Saw It, 1767–1797.
Author : Ernest Stanley Dodge
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Fiji
ISBN :