Peoples of the Pacific : the history of Oceania to 1870
| Weitere Verfasser: |
D'Arcy, Paul
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Abingdon :
Taylor & Francis Ltd ; Ashgate Publishing Limited,
2008.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xcv, 453 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Pacific world
v. 3 |
| ISBN: | 0754662217 9780754662211 |
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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.
