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Book Hawaiki  Ancestral Polynesia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2001-03-15
  • ISBN : 9780521788793
  • Pages : 398 pages

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.

Book Social Anthropology in Polynesia

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.

Book An Inquiry Into the Question of Cultural Stability in Polynesia

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 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Anthropology in Polynesia  A Review of Research  Etc   With a Bibliography

Download or read book Social Anthropology in Polynesia A Review of Research Etc With a Bibliography 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:

Book Developments in Polynesian Ethnology

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.

Book We the Tikopia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raymond Firth
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-11-05
  • ISBN : 1136538089
  • Pages : 672 pages

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.

Book Social Anthropology in Polynesia

Download or read book Social Anthropology in Polynesia written by Felix M. Keesing and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms

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.

Book The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia

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:

Book Social Anthropology in Polynesia

Download or read book Social Anthropology in Polynesia written by Adolphus Peter Elkin and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Primitive Polynesian Economy

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 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Anthropology in Polynesia  a Review of Research  Felix M  Keesing

Download or read book Social Anthropology in Polynesia a Review of Research Felix M Keesing written by Felix M. Keesing and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Anthropology in Polynesia

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:

Book An Inquiry Into the Question of Cultural Stability in Polynesia

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:

Book Language  Space  and Social Relationships

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.

Book The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia

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:

Book The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia

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: