The Material Culture of Tuvalu
Author: Gerd Koch
Publisher: [email protected]
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gerd Koch
Publisher: [email protected]
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Niko Besnier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 689
ISBN-13: 113497471X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. Tuvaluan pays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language.
Author: Doug Blandy
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2018-06-08
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0807759198
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Author: Gerd Koch
Publisher: [email protected]
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9789820203143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Max Quanchi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-03-22
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521422840
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authors have brought together a collection of works from specialists in Pacific History from across Australia and throughout the Pacific. The individual contributions were specifically written to meet the needs of senior history courses in Australia. Max Quanchi and Ron Adams are well-known educationists who have specialised in the pacific. They have extensively travelled and studied in the Pacific and have spent many years teaching history to secondary and fertiary students. The result is an authoritative text for all senior History and Australian Studies students who need to understand the Pacific region.
Author: John Connell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-09
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1351743716
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thousands of studies have been conducted by social scientists in the villages and islands, and increasingly in the towns, of the Pacific. Despite this, there are few longitudinal studies of any great depth and sophistication in the region. The contributors to this book have all conducted long-term research in the islands of the Pacific. During their visits and revisits they have witnessed first-hand the many changes that have occurred in their fieldsites as well as observing elements of continuity. They bring to their accounts a sense of their surprise at some of the unexpected elements of stability and of transformation. The authors take a range of disciplinary approaches, particularly geography and anthropology, and their contributions reflect their deep knowledge of Pacific places, some first visited more than 40 years ago. Many of the chapters focus on aspects of socio-economic change and continuity, while others focus on specific issues such as the impact of both internal and international migration, political and cultural change, technological innovation and the experiences of children and youth. By focusing on both change and continuity this collection of 11 case studies shows the complex relationships between Pacific societies and processes of ‘modernity’ and globalisation. By using a long-term lens on particular places, the authors are able to draw out the subtleties of change and its impacts, while also paying attention to what, in the contemporary Pacific, has been left remarkably unchanged. Filling a gap in the studies of the Pacific region, this book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience in the fields of anthropology, development, geography, and Asia-Pacific studies.
Author: Wendy S. Arbeit
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1990-07-01
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780824812812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Baskets in Polynesia provides an overview of baskets made throughout central Polynesia from the time of early European contact to the present, observing and comparing regional similarities and differences over the course of two hundred years. Wendy Arbeit has collected and augmented much scattered data. The handsome studio photographs complement the text and show the basic techniques involved in the creation of the baskets, while field photographs show baskets in use. Tables present succinct summaries of regional basket types and the great variety of coconut frond baskets. Once baskets played an integral part in everyday life in Polynesia. Baskets are still made today, but their role has altered dramatically as a result of changing lifestyles in the island cultures. Most baskets are now created by older women, and knowledge of the techniques of plaiting is in peril of being lost altogether. Documentation of basketry in Polynesia has been uneven and for some island groups totally lacking. With this important book, Arbeit remedies this situation.This attractive and informative work will appeal to readers with an interest in Polynesia and to artisans in ethnic crafts.
Author: Paul Memmott
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781864999624
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides an ethnographic description of the material culture traditionally employed by the Aboriginal people of the North Wellesley Islands in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.
Author: Robert D. Craig
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780810842373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alphabetically arranged entries, ranging in length from a paragraph to several pages, describe the important people, food, native animals, politics, history, and culture of Polynesia, which is made up of more than a dozen countries, including American Samoa, French Polynesia, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Tonga. The book includes a four-page list of acronyms, an extensive chronology, and appendices with the names of Polynesian islands and lists of political rulers of the various states through history. Author Craig (emeritus, history, Alaska Pacific U.) has created several other dictionaries on Oceania, Polynesian mythology, and Hawaii. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.