Download or read book Club Types of Nuclear Polynesia written by William Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
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Download or read book Club Types of Nuclear Polynesia written by William Churchill and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Club Types of Nuclear Polynesia is an anthropological study of the clubs used by the people of Polynesia. It provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of various types of clubs, as well as information about their cultural and religious significance. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars of anthropology and Pacific Island culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The United States Catalog written by Mary Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Club Types of Nuclear Polynesia written by William Churchill and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...were obtained from W. H. Miller by gift. He was in possession of a small museum of unassorted curiosities in Media, the shire-town of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The objects were devoid of the names of collectors, whereby the source might be checked up. The attributions appear in the main to be accurate, but they are not to be employed in the settlement of moot points of provenience. CHAPTER III. Of three pieces in the museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, two were collected by Dr. Reginald Spear, United States Navy, one by Allen Irwin. The greatest trust may be reposed in both these collectors. It is not now so very long that museum direction has become a science, with its systems of record and display. Formerly a museum was a mere collection of curiosities in cases for idle visitors to gaze upon. Dating from that not very remote epoch, some of these specimens carry yet the evidence that they had been varnished to look well. Many others are in the museum merely because they came into the museum; no record was preserved of their source or collector. It is a great thing that they have been preserved at all. In the present study their provenience has been carefully examined. DIMENSIONS AND STRUCTURAL DETAILS. We think in terms of feet and inches; some of us have acquired the greater decimal facility of the meter and its parts; but we postulate in all the acts of our life a standard of measurement which we regard as absolute; at least it is fixed for all of our practical purposes. But in these studies of the artifacts of Nuclear Polynesia we are to find a tangle of problems in establishing the units of measurement. We may be sure that there is a certain general agreement of measurement; to those of us who have shared...
Download or read book Classified List of Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington written by Carnegie Institution of Washington and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Polynesian Warfare and Fortifications written by James Stanley Daugherty and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortifications are found on many of the scattered Polynesian islands. In no place are they known to have occurred until at least 200 years after the initial settlement, and each island group that built them initiated their own particular style. It is my contention that the building of fortifications is not a rote cultural activity divorced from any cultural context, but that their construction reflects individual responses to a complex of military needs. Different types of fortifications served different functions. A garrison camp built to hold siege against a fortified village serves a different purpose than the walls of the village it is besieging, and both are different from a walled fastness in some desolate area serving to protect fugitives when all else has failed. Societies have specific concepts of social structure and military procedure, and if they built fortifications, these defences will reflect the specific criteria of their builders. It is my intention to correlate the available data on political organization, military organization, weapons, and patterns of warfare to the advent of fortifications. The massive amounts of labour involved in the construction of some of the Polynesian forts did not require, as some might think, a highly structured system of government. But the manner in which the society was organized, their level of factions, does influence the construction of their forts by influencing the size and organization of the armies that could be fielded, the reliability of allies, the probable results of the conflict, and the reasons for which the war was being fought. When this is understood, along with a knowledge of their available military tools, we should then be able to grasp the functional aspects of the Polynesian fortifications and correlate similar input with a similar constructural response.
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the University Library 1919 1962 written by University of California, Los Angeles. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESI written by William 1859-1920 Churchill and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Club Types of Nuclear Polynesia Classic Reprint written by William Churchill and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Club Types of Nuclear Polynesia The South Sea ethnica in the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania are so numerous in the sum of the pieces as to establish this as one of the great collections of the world. Of even greater moment is the fact, immediately and distinctly recognized in the recent recension of the material, that such careful judgment has been exercised in the acquisition of most of these specimens as to establish the collection in the foremost position for the critical study of a great many types of objects. Very few indeed are the culture sources which are not represented; still fewer are the types of objects pertaining to the by no means simple culture of the islands of the Pacific which are not abundantly exemplified. In a large number of such types the suite of specimens is sufficiently rich to afford a most remarkable opportunity for the study of the evolution of the object from a primitive form to one more highly conventionalized, and in the ornamentation to enable the student to discover the reason of much that has passed from the serving of an end of strict utility to a system of ornament which without this richness of material would remain quite incomprehensible. In the latter particular it is to note that almost all this ornament is mere convention to the people who employ it and that their explanation is wholly fanciful. In the course of the recension of the collection and the ordering of the various types by theme one group peculiarly came to the front as offering practically a complete suite sufficient for the evolutionary study of dissonant cultures at a point of contamination through intercourse of at least two distinct ethnic groups. The present paper is addressed to the statement of the several problems which arise in the examination of the wooden clubs of Nuclear Polynesia. It becomes necessary, therefore, to present as basic a catalogue raisonne of all the ethnica of this particular subdivision in the museum. Upon this record, regarded as the base of all study, depend certain conclusions which are essentially matters of opinion and interpretation, and as such open to discussion. Nuclear Polynesia is the designation of a subdivision of the Polynesian Pacific which upon linguistic and traditional grounds I found it necessary to erect. In "The Polynesian Wanderings" at page 179 I announced this subdivision as follows: I. Nuclear Polynesia (Samoa the nucleus, and Niue, Tonga, Viti describing the perimeter) was under settlement by Polynesians from a date so remote that they had lost all direct memory of an anterior movement thither. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Developments in Polynesian Ethnology written by Alan Howard and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title assesses the current state of anthropological research in Polynesia through a series of original essays on prehistory, social organisation, socialisation, mana and tapu, chieftainship, art, and early contact. The essays, taken together, offer a broad understanding of Polynesian societies.
Download or read book Catalogue of Publications written by Carnegie Institution of Washington and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
