Peoples of the Pacific : the history of Oceania to 1870

Weitere Verfasser: D'Arcy, Paul
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Abingdon : Taylor & Francis Ltd ; Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008.
Umfang/Format: xcv, 453 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Pacific world v. 3
Schlagworte:
Ethnology > Oceania.
Historiography > Oceania > History.
Oceania > Historiography.
Oceania > History.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Pt. 1.
  • Exploring and Colonising Oceania
  • 1.
  • The Birth of New Lands, After the Creation of Havai'i (Raiatea) /
  • Teuira Henry
  • 2.
  • 'Expanding' the Target in Indigenous Navigation /
  • David Lewis
  • 3.
  • Voyaging /
  • Ben R. Finney
  • 4.
  • The Colonisation of the Pacific Plate: Chronological, Navigational and Social Issues /
  • Geoffrey Irwin
  • Pt. 2.
  • Historical Dynamics of Island Societies
  • 5.
  • Man's Role in Modifying Tropical and Sub-Tropical Polynesian Ecosystems /
  • P. V. Kirch
  • 6.
  • Man and the Sea in Early Tahiti: A Maritime Economy through European Eyes /
  • Gordon R. Lewthwaite
  • 7.
  • The Ipomoean Revolution Revisited: Society and the Sweet Potato in the Upper Wahgi Valley /
  • Jack Golson
  • 8.
  • The Value of Tradition in Polynesian Research /
  • Te Rangi Hiroa
  • 9.
  • Understanding Polynesian Traditional History /
  • Niel Gunson
  • 10.
  • Oral Traditions among the Binandere: Problems of Method in a Melanesian Society /
  • John D. Waiko
  • 11.
  • Status Rivalry and Cultural Evolution in Polynesia /
  • Irving Goldman
  • 12.
  • Chimbu Tribes: Political Organization in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea /
  • Paula Brown
  • 13.
  • The War of Tonga and Samoa and Origin of the Name Malietoa /
  • Samuel Ella
  • 14.
  • Exchange Patterns in Goods and Spouses: Fiji, Tonga and Samoa /
  • Adrienne L. Kaeppler
  • 15.
  • Kula: The Circulating Exchange of Valuables in the Archipelagoes of Eastern New Guinea /
  • B. Malinowski
  • 16.
  • The Place of Ulithi in the Yap Empire /
  • William A. Leesa
  • 17.
  • Yapese Politics, Yapese Money and the Sawei Tribute Network before World War I /
  • M. L. Berg
  • 16.
  • Pt. 3.
  • Culture Contact
  • 18.
  • The Stranger-King or Dumezil among the Fijians /
  • Marshall Sahlins
  • 19.
  • Institutions of Violence in the Marquesas /
  • Greg Dening
  • 20.
  • European-Polynesian Encounters: A Critique of the Pearson Thesis /
  • I. C. Campbell
  • 21.
  • From Conversion to Conquest: The Early Spanish Mission in the Marianas /
  • Francis X. Hezel
  • Pt. 4.
  • Responses to Pre-Colonial European Influences
  • 22.
  • The Sandalwood Trade in Melanesian Economics, 1841-65 /
  • Dorothy Shineberg
  • 23.
  • Firearms and Indigenous Warfare: A Case Study /
  • K. R. Howe
  • 24.
  • Pacific Island Depopulation: Natural or Un-Natural History? /
  • Donald Denoon
  • 25.
  • The Case of the Wesleyan Mission in Tonga /
  • Sione Latukefu
  • Pt. 5.
  • The Pacific Past Revisited
  • 26.
  • Our Sea of Islands /
  • Epeli Hau'ofa.

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