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Author: Y. S. Green Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486415451 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 50
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Intriguing coloring chronicles history of Polynesian people in 44 carefully researched and meticulously rendered illustrations. Includes images of Polynesian sailing vessels, a fortified village, a Maori meeting house, symbols of royalty, hunters and ceremonial dancers, islanders weaving baskets, practicing the art of tattooing, mourning the dead, and much more. Captions.
Author: Y. S. Green Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486415451 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 50
Book Description
Intriguing coloring chronicles history of Polynesian people in 44 carefully researched and meticulously rendered illustrations. Includes images of Polynesian sailing vessels, a fortified village, a Maori meeting house, symbols of royalty, hunters and ceremonial dancers, islanders weaving baskets, practicing the art of tattooing, mourning the dead, and much more. Captions.
Author: Christina Thompson Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062060899 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 384
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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: Jeffrey Sissons Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1782384146 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 170
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Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed or desecrated all of their temples and most of their god-images. In the aftermath of the explosive event, which Sissons terms the Polynesian Iconoclasm, hundreds of architecturally innovative churches — one the size of two football fields — were constructed. At the same time, Christian leaders introduced oppressive laws and courts, which the youth resisted through seasonal displays of revelry and tattooing. Seeking an answer to why this event occurred in the way that it did, this book introduces and demonstrates an alternative “practice history” that draws on the work of Marshall Sahlins and employs Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, improvisation and practical logic.
Author: Johannes Carl Andersen Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486285820 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 578
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Authoritative recounting of myths and legends — gods and creation, nature and supernatural, love and war, revenge, more — plus a lively commentary on Polynesian life and culture. 77 illustrations.
Author: Tamatoa Bambridge Publisher: ANU Press ISBN: 1925022919 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 283
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This collection deals with an ancient institution in Eastern Polynesia called the rahui, a form of restricting access to resources and/or territories. While tapu had been extensively discussed in the scientific literature on Oceanian anthropology, the rahui is quite absent from secondary modern literature. This situation is all the more problematic because individual actors, societies, and states in the Pacific are readapting such concepts to their current needs, such as environment regulation or cultural legitimacy. This book assembles a comprehensive collection of current works on the rahui from a legal pluralism perspective. This study as a whole underlines the new assertion of identity that has flowed from the cultural dimension of the rahui. Today, rahui have become a means for indigenous communities to be fully recognised on a political level. Some indigenous communities choose to restore the rahui in order to preserve political control of their territory or, in some cases, to get it back. For the state, better control of the rahui represents a way of asserting its legitimacy and its sovereignty, in the face of this reassertion by indigenous communities.
Author: Peter Crawford Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 282
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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: Christine Webster Publisher: Av2 by Weigl ISBN: 9781590361238 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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The Indigenous Peoples series profiles some of the earliest cultures of the world. Young readers will learn how indigenous peoples have come to live in harmony with nature, and how their spirituality, customs, and traditions reflect a deep knowledge and understanding of the balance of life. Each book unveils the knowledge, myths, and social activities of some of the world's most diverse cultures. Readers join each culture as it embarks on its first journey to new lands, learning how it adapts to challenges in nature and the world beyond. Indigenous Peoples offers insight into cultures that are struggling to maintain their traditions in an everchanging world. Book jacket.
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