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 AN INQUIRY INTO THE QUESTION OF CULTURAL STABILITY IN POLYNESIA written by MARGARET MEAD and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hawaiki Ancestral Polynesia written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Developments in Polynesian Ethnology written by Robert Borofsky and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book We the Tikopia written by Raymond Firth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized as a major work when first published, this title has, over the years, become a classic. Forming the basis of modern social anthropology, We the Tikiopia stands in the forefront of its literature. The book is an excellent example of fieldwork analysis of a primitive society; a complete account of the working of a primitive kinship system; and an exhaustive and sophisticated study of Polynesian social institutions. First published in 1936.
Download or read book Social Anthropology in Polynesia written by Felix Maxwell Keesing and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia written by Robert Wood Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-07-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Question of Cultural Stability in Polynesia written by Margaret Mead and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Primitive Polynesian Economy written by Raymond Firth and published by London, Routledge. This book was released on 1965 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia written by Robert Wood Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Polynesian Iconoclasm written by Jeffrey Sissons and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed or desecrated all of their temples and most of their god-images. In the aftermath of the explosive event, which Sissons terms the Polynesian Iconoclasm, hundreds of architecturally innovative churches — one the size of two football fields — were constructed. At the same time, Christian leaders introduced oppressive laws and courts, which the youth resisted through seasonal displays of revelry and tattooing. Seeking an answer to why this event occurred in the way that it did, this book introduces and demonstrates an alternative “practice history” that draws on the work of Marshall Sahlins and employs Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, improvisation and practical logic.
Download or read book Social Change in Tikopia written by Raymond Firth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-visiting Tikopia a decade after his first visit, Raymond Firth here examines what impact the forces of modernization had on Tikopia society with regard to economics, law, politics and social affairs. Suffering a famine whilst there, the author also examined the issues of responsibility for the famine; problems of distribution in ceremonial and ritual; institutional developments from the famine. Originally published in 1959.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology written by Alan Barnard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline, this volume discusses human social and cultural life in all its diversity and difference. Theory, ethnography and history are combined in over 230 entries on topics
Download or read book Anthropology Tourism and Protecting One s Own microform the Ethics of Representing Polynesian Cultural Identity written by Marianne E. MacKinnon and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Polynesian cultures have "persisted with few, or no, native-language speakers, as fervent Christians, and with 'modern' family structures, involvement in capitalist economies, and new social roles for women and men" ... Can Polynesians protect themselves in power charged, unequal situations, created from the colonial carving up of the Polynesian cultural area into many individual nation-states? If so, how? And how do differently positioned authorities represent living cultures? The academic debates about cultural 'inventions' and 'authenticity,' 'insiders' and 'outsiders,' and the organic analogies implying death requiring re-discovery, revival or salvage processes, are highly contested in the Pacific, simply because these are the very analytical categories that obscure substantive issues that bind and constrain processes of social and cultural change. It is these binding processes, designed at the local, regional, and international levels of the multinational tourism and economic development aid industries that are the fundamental components of this thesis.
Download or read book Language Space and Social Relationships written by Giovanni Bennardo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the relationship between language and the mental organisation of knowledge, based on research carried out in Polynesia.
