Ancient Voyagers in Polynesia
Author | : Andrew Sharp |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Māori (New Zealand people) |
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Author | : Andrew Sharp |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Māori (New Zealand people) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Sharp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Human beings |
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Author | : Charles Andrew Sharp |
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Total Pages | : |
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Genre | : Navigation |
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Author | : Christina Thompson |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-03-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062060899 |
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind. For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world. Sea People includes an 8-page photo insert, illustrations throughout, and 2 endpaper maps.
Author | : Nicholas Thomas |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1541620054 |
An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street Journal The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean? In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake.
Author | : Richard Feinberg |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2003-03-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780873387880 |
After fourteen months of field research in 1972-73 and an additional four months of field work with the Anutans in the Solomon Islands capital of Honiara in 1983, Richard Feinberg here provides a thorough study of Anutan seafaring and navigation. In doing so he gives rare insights into the larger picture of how Polynesians have adapted to the sea. This richly illustrated book explores the theory and technique used by Anutans in construction, use, and handling of their craft; the navigational skills still employed in interisland voyaging; and their culturally patterned attitudes toward the ocean and travel on the high seas. Further, the discussion is set within the context of social relations, values, and the Anutan's own symbolic definitions of the world in which they live.
Author | : Serge Tcherkezoff |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2008-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1921536020 |
This book explores the first encounters between Samoans and Europeans up to the arrival of the missionaries, using all available sources for the years 1722 to the 1830s, paying special attention to the first encounter on land with the Laperouse expedition. Many of the sources used are French, and some of difficult accessibility, and thus they have not previously been thoroughly examined by historians. Adding some Polynesian comparisons from beyond Samoa, and reconsidering the so-called 'Sahlins-Obeyesekere debate' about the fate of Captain Cook, 'First Contacts' in Polynesia advances a hypothesis about the contemporary interpretations made by the Polynesians of the nature of the Europeans, and about the actions that the Polynesians devised for this encounter: wrapping Europeans up in 'cloth' and presenting 'young girls' for 'sexual contact'. It also discusses how we can go back two centuries and attempt to reconstitute, even if only partially, the point of view of those who had to discover for themselves these Europeans whom they call 'Papalagi'. The book also contributes an additional dimension to the much-touted 'Mead-Freeman debate' which bears on the rules and values regulating adolescent sexuality in 'Samoan culture'. Scholars have long considered the pre-missionary times as a period in which freedom in sexuality for adolescents predominated. It appears now that this erroneous view emerged from a deep misinterpretation of Laperouse's and Dumont d'Urville's narratives.
Author | : Peter Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Nomads of the Wind and the BBC TV series which it accompanies tell the epic story of the Polynesians--the tenacious ocean voyaging people who settled the Pacific.
Author | : Tommy Holmes |
Publisher | : Editions, Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Canoes and canoeing |
ISBN | : 9780915013159 |
Origins -- voyaging -- Materials -- Tools -- Canoe building -- Accessories -- Paddles -- Design -- Canoeing skills -- Canoe ladders -- surfing -- Fishing -- War -- Racing canoes -- Canoe racing -- Petroglyphs -- Burial canoes.
Author | : Joseph Edwin Weckler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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