Download or read book Research in Polynesia and Melanesia written by Patrick Alfred Buxton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Zealand Based Research on the Pacific Islands written by Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pacific Nations and Territories written by Reilly Ridgell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Research in Polynesia and Melanesia written by Patrick Alfred Buxton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ethnology of Polynesia and Micronesia written by Ralph Linton and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Possessing Polynesians written by Maile Renee Arvin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book On the Road of the Winds written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a synthesis of archaeological and historical anthropological knowledge of the indigenous cultures of the Pacific islands, this text focuses on human ecology and island adaptations.

Download or read book Islands as Crossroads written by Tim Curtis and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together information on various disciplines from the three main island regions of the world - the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean - to explore the ways in which the peoples of small islands have lived, and continue to live, in their culturally diverse societies. Leading anthropologists, historians, economists, archaeologists and others provide information on the complexity and dynamics of societies in small island developing states. It reflects the outcomes of a UNESCO symposium held in the Seychelles in 2007.--Publisher's description.

Download or read book Social Anthropology in Melanesia written by Adolphus Peter Elkin and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1976 with total page 192 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 Social Anthropology in Polynesia written by Felix Maxwell Keesing and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1980-10-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study forms one unit of a research project initiated by the South Pacific Commission as part of its Social Development research program. The project was devised to provide a comprehensive survey of the work done to date in social anthropology as it relates to conditions and problems among the peoples of the South Pacific Territories.

Download or read book A Pacific Bibliography written by Clyde Romer Hughes Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Polynesian Researches During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the Society and Sandwich Islands written by William Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Research in Polynesia and Melanesia written by Patrick Alfred Buxton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands written by Dieter Mueller-Dombois and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the leading authorities on the plant diversity and ecology of the Pacific islands, this book is a magisterial synthesis of the vegetation and landscapes of the islands of the Pacific Ocean. It is organized by island group, and includes information on geography, geology, phytogeographic relationships, and human influences on vegetation. Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands features over 400 color photographs, plus dozens of maps and climate diagrams. The authors’ efforts in assembling the existing information into an integrated, comprehensive book will be welcomed by biogeographers, plant ecologists, conservation biologists, and all scientists with an interest in island biology.

Download or read book Prehistory in the Pacific Islands written by John Terrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity.

Download or read book Rank and Status in Polynesia and Melanesia written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: