History and Culture in the Society Islands
Author: Edward Smith Craighill Handy
Publisher:
Published: 1930
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13:
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History and Culture in the Society Islands
Author: Edward Smith Craighil Handy
Publisher:
Published: 1930
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780527021856
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tahitians
Author: Robert I. Levy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1975-08-15
Total Pages: 575
ISBN-13: 0226476073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This seminal work in several fields—person-centered anthropology, comparative psychology, and social history—documents the inner life of the Tahitians with sensitivity and insight. At the same time Levy reveals the ways in which private and public worlds interact. Tahitians is an ethnography focused on private but culturally organized behavior resulting in a wealth of material for the understanding of the interaction among historical, cultural, and personal spheres. "This is a unique addition to anthropological literature. . . . No review could substitute for reading it."—Margaret Mead, American Anthropologist
French Polynesia History and Culture
Author: Martial Moutcho
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-02-14
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781543127812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →French Polynesia History and Culture. Early Settlement. People, Tradition and Lifestyle. A Book for tourism and Information. Polynesian culture, the beliefs and practices of the indigenous peoples of the ethnogeographic group of Pacific Islands known as Polynesia (from Greek poly 'many' and nesoi 'islands'). Polynesia encompasses a huge triangular area of the east-central Pacific Ocean. The triangle has its apex at the Hawaiian Islands in the north and its base angles at New Zealand (Aotearoa) in the west and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in the east. It also includes (from northwest to southeast) Tuvalu, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna, Samoa (formerly Western Samoa), American Samoa, Tonga, Niue, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia (Tahiti and the other Society Islands, the Marquesas Islands, the Austral Islands, and the Tuamotu Archipelago, including the Gambier Islands (formerly the Mangareva Islands), and Pitcairn Island. At the turn of the 21st century, about 70 percent of the total population of Polynesia resided in Hawaii
Culture and History in the Pacific
Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands
Author: Max Quanchi
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2005-10-18
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0810865289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.
Islands of History
Author: Marshall Sahlins
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-03-06
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 022616215X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands—Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand—whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful critique of Western history and anthropology.
The Material Culture of Tuvalu
Author: Gerd Koch
Publisher: [email protected]
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
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Author: Jerry D. Moore
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-11-05
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 1442270586
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Visions of Culture: A Reader, Second Edition, is an anthology of articles about anthropological theorists.
Ancient Tahitian Society
Author: Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2019-09-30
Total Pages: 1432
ISBN-13: 0824884531
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Tahiti is far famed yet too little known.” Thus wrote J. M. Orsmond in 1848, and the same assertion can be made in 1972. Thousands of pages had been published about Tahiti and its neighboring islands when Orsmond uttered his judgment, and tens of thousands have been published since that time, but a unified, comprehensive, and detailed description of the pre-European ways of life of the inhabitants of those Islands is yet to appear in print. The present work, lengthy as it is, makes no such claim to comprehensiveness; rather, it is concerned mainly with the social relations of those inhabitants, and it serves up only enough about their technology, their religion, their aesthetic expressions, and so forth to place descriptions of their social relations in context and render them more comprehensible. Volumes 1 and 2 of this work are a reconstruction of the Islanders’ way of life as it was believed to have been just before it began to be transformed by European influence—a period labeled the Late Indigenous Era. Volume 3 covers events in Tahiti and Mo‘orea from about 1767 to 1815—a period labeled the Early European Era.
