The Cultural Relationships of the Polynesian Outliers
Author : Donn T. Bayard
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Ethnology
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Author : Donn T. Bayard
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Ethnology
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
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Author : Donn T. Bayard
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Polynesians
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Author : Donn T. Bayard
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Caroline Islands
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Author : Richard Feinberg
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Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Polynesia
ISBN : 9780945428152
Author : Richard Feinberg Professor of Anthropology Kent State University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 1998-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195355474
Anuta is a small Polynesian community in the eastern Solomon Islands that has had minimal contact with outside cultural forces. Even at the end of the twentieth century, it remains one of the most traditional and isolated islands in the insular Pacific. In Oral Traditions of Anuta, Richard Feinberg offers a telling collection of Anutan historical narratives, including indigenous texts and English translations. This rich, thorough assemblage is the result of a collaborative project between Feinberg and a large cross-section of the Anutan community that developed over a period of twenty-five years. The volume's emphasis is ethnographic, consisting of a number of texts as related by the island's most respected experts in matters of traditional history. Feinberg's annotations, which arm the reader with essential ethnographic and historical contexts, clarify important linguistic and cultural issues that arise from the stories. The texts themselves have important implications for the relationship of oral tradition to history and symbolic structures, and afford new evidence pertinent to Polynesian language sub-grouping. Further, they provide insight into a number of Anutan customs and preoccupations, while also suggesting certain widespread Polynesian practices dating back to the pre-contact and early contact periods.
Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 1989-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521273169
A first study from an archaeological perspective of the elaborate systems of Polynesian chiefdoms presents an original account of the processes of cultural change and evolution over three millennia.
Author : Robert Borofsky
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824881966
Development in Polynesian Ethnology assesses the current state of anthropological research in Polynesia by examining the debates and issues that shape the discipline today. What have anthropologists achieved? What concerns now dominate discussion? Where is Polynesian anthropology headed? In a series of provocative and original essays, leading scholars examine prehistory, social organization, socialization and character development, mana and tapu, chieftainship, art and aesthetics, and early contact. Together these essays show how history, anthropology, and archaeology have combined to give a broad understanding of Polynesian societies developing over time--how they represent a blend of modernity and tradition, continuity and change. This book is both an introduction to Polynesia for interested students and a thought-provoking synthesis for scholars charting new directions and posing possibilities for future research. Scholars outside Polynesian studies will find the perspectives it offers important and its comprehensive bibliography an invaluable resource.
Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521788793
The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and comparative word lists. In this innovative book, Kirch and Green explicitly develop the theoretical underpinnings, as well as the particular methods, for such a historical anthropology. Drawing upon and integrating the approaches of archaeology, comparative ethnography, and historical linguistics, they advance a phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, and apply a triangulation method for historical reconstruction. They illustrate their approach through meticulous application to the history of the Polynesian cultures, and for the first time reconstruct in extensive detail the Ancestral Polynesian culture that flourished in the Polynesian homeland - Hawaiki - some 2,500 years ago. Of great significance for Oceanic studies, Kirch and Green's book will be essential reading for any anthropologist, prehistorian, linguist, or cultural historian concerned with the theory and method of long-term history.
Author : Roger Blench
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134816235
Archaeology and Language IV examines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative, and fuel a radical rethinking of the conventional discourse of linguistics within archaeology.