Download or read book Ancestral Voices from Mangaia written by Michael Patrick Joseph Reilly and published by Polynesian Society, Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An effective understanding of the history of Mangaia, the most southerly of the Cook Islands, requires a firm foundation in the language of the people. Based upon this insight, Ancestral Voices transcribes and interprets a series of indigenous historical texts, including proverbs, songs and narratives, as told by generations of Mangaian scholars, notably the tribal historian, Mamae, and by outsider scholars, particularly, the missionary William Wyatt Gill and the anthropologist Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter Buck).

Download or read book Mangaia and the Mission written by Peter Henry Buck and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1993 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pre-Christian history of Mangaia - the southernmost of the Cook Islands - was documented by Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa). Here is the unpublished final chapter.

Download or read book Cook Islands Legends written by and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1981 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths, stories and legends which once guided the lives of young Cook Islanders reveal a panorama of history, place names and genealogical identity. The mystique of the tales fascinated many young people who gathered around their elders to hear them illuminate the past.

Download or read book Myths and Songs from the South Pacific written by William Wyatt Gill and published by London, H.S. King. This book was released on 1876 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From Darkness to Light in Polynesia written by William Wyatt Gill and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missionary's account of Cook Islands history up to 1894.

Download or read book Tangatatau Rockshelter written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tangatatau Rockshelter on Mangaia Island in the Southern Cook Islands, excavated by a multidisciplinary team in 1989-1991, produced one of the richest stratigraphic sequences of artifacts, faunal assemblages, and archaeobotanical materials in Eastern Polynesia. More than seventy radiocarbon dates provide a tight chronology from AD 1000 to European contact in about 1800. The faunal assemblage provides compelling evidence for dramatic reductions in indigenous bird life following Polynesian colonization, one of the best documented cases for human-induced impacts on island biota. Tangatatau is unique among Polynesian archaeological sites in the extent to which fishing was dominated by freshwater fishes and eels. The site also yielded an extensive suite of carbonized plant materials, including sweet potato tubers, demonstrating that this South American domesticate had reached Eastern Polynesia by AD 1400. Mangaia illustrates the often far-reaching consequences of human land use and resource exploitation on small and vulnerable islands.

Download or read book The Cook Islands 1820 1950 written by Richard Phillip Gilson and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1980 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cook Islands Heroes written by David Riley and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles famous Cook Islanders, who tell their story about how they became successful. Subjects include Sir Thomas Davis, Professor Bobbie Hunter, Lima Sopoaga, Dr. Tearikivao Maoate, Sir Terepai Maoare, Marghartet Matenga and Alfred Ngaro. Also looks at some legendary and historic figures.

Download or read book Slavers in Paradise written by Henry Evans Maude and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1981 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rahui written by Tamatoa Bambridge and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection deals with an ancient institution in Eastern Polynesia called the rahui, a form of restricting access to resources and/or territories. While tapu had been extensively discussed in the scientific literature on Oceanian anthropology, the rahui is quite absent from secondary modern literature. This situation is all the more problematic because individual actors, societies, and states in the Pacific are readapting such concepts to their current needs, such as environment regulation or cultural legitimacy. This book assembles a comprehensive collection of current works on the rahui from a legal pluralism perspective. This study as a whole underlines the new assertion of identity that has flowed from the cultural dimension of the rahui. Today, rahui have become a means for indigenous communities to be fully recognised on a political level. Some indigenous communities choose to restore the rahui in order to preserve political control of their territory or, in some cases, to get it back. For the state, better control of the rahui represents a way of asserting its legitimacy and its sovereignty, in the face of this reassertion by indigenous communities.

Download or read book THE STATE OF THE WORLD s FOREST GENETIC RESOURCES written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication was prepared based on information provided by 86 countries, outcomes from regional and subregional consultations and commissioned thematic studies. It includes: •an overview of definitions and concepts related to Forest Genetic Resources (FGR) and a review of their value; •a description of the main drivers of changes; •the presentation of key emerging technologies; •an analysis of the current status of FGR conservation, use and related developments; •recommendations addressing the challenges and needs. By the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

Download or read book A Book of Cook Islands Maori Names Ingoa written by Jon Jonassen and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection serves as a basis for identifying and understanding names. The collection highlights the rich naming heritage of the Maori people of Rarotonga and neighbouring islands where names play a major role.

Download or read book Report to the Government of the Cook Islands on Invasive Plant Species of Environmental Concern written by James C. Space and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geology of Mangaia written by Patrick Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Drosophilidae Diptera written by Irina Brake and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns about global biodiversity are rising dramatically, yet we are lagging behind in the most basic prerequisite for its understanding and conservation: the inventory. Insect species may make up five or ten times the number of all other plant and animal species combined, and as such they represent one of the major challenges in biosystematic science. World Catalogue of Insects is an initiative aiming at compiling worldscale, authoritative catalogues of monophyletic insect taxa. Volumes in this series contain standard nomenclatoral information on all names pertaining to the taxon treated, including type locality and distribution to the extent this is relevant. Additional information is optional, e.g., location, status and condition of types; biology; bibliographical information; pest status; vector status; etc. This volume nine focuses on Drosophilidae (Diptera). (Series: World Catalogue of Insects)

Download or read book The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cook Islander Missionaries to British New Guinea 1872 1915 written by Wendy Rowan and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 110 pages of 350 words.