Author: William Thomas PritchardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Polynesian Reminiscences
Author: William Thomas PritchardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Polynesian Reminiscences
Author: William Thomas PritchardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Polynesian Reminiscences, Or, Life in the South Pacific Islands
Author: William Thomas PritchardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Polynesian Reminiscences
Author: W. T. PritchardPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282227937
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Excerpt from Polynesian Reminiscences: Or Life in the South Pacific Islands Having made several voyages to the South Seas when attached to Government expeditions, I have a tolerably fair knowledge of that portion of the globe, and I may perhaps be allowed to state that Mr. Pritchard's pages appear to me to be amongst the most trustworthy and valuable that have as yet issued from the London press, and that they ought to take rank with Ellis's 'polynesian Researches' and Mariner's 'tonga, ' the two classical works on Polynesia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
Author: Bernice Pauahi Bishop MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Memoirs of the Polynesian Society
Author: Polynesian Reminiscences; Or, Life in the South Pacific Island(S) by W.T. Pritchard. Pref. by Dr. Seemann
Author: William Thomas PritchardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Essays in Polynesian Ethnology
Author: Robert W. WilliamsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107600731
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This 1939 text examines whether the formation of a cohesive ethnology of Polynesia could be possible.
Samoan Medical Belief and Practice
Author: Cluny MacphersonPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 9781869400453
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"This is the first comprehensive study of Samoan music. Cluny and La'avasa Macpherson have carried out intensive investigation into the practice and beliefs of contemporary indigenous healers, or fofố, in Western Samoa to produce a fascinating and throughful study. They explain convincingly why traditional Samoan medicine and its skilled practitioners continue to flourish alongside Western medical practice both in Samoa and in Samoan immigrant communities..."--Back cover.
Tattoo
Author: Nicholas ThomasPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861898231
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The popularity of tattoos today is a revival of a practice begun in the late eighteenth century, when Westerners first made contact with the native peoples of the Pacific. The term ‘tattoo’ entered Europe with the publication of Captain Cook’s voyages in the 1770s, and Pacific tattoos became fashionable in the West as sailors, whalers and explorers brought home tattoos from Tahiti, the Marquesas, New Zealand and Polynesia. In recent years these early contacts have been revived, as native tattooists from Oceania have begun tattooing non-Polynesians in Europe, the USA and elsewhere. Tattoo is both a fascinating book about these early Oceanic–European exchanges, that also documents developments up to the present day, and the first to look at the history of tattooing in Oceania itself. Documenting these complex cultural interactions in the first part of the book, the authors move from issues of encounter, representation and exchange to the interventions of missionaries and the colonial state in local tattoo practices. Highly illustrated with many previously unseen images, for example the original voyage sketches of the first Russian circumnavigation of 1803–6, this is a fascinating account of early tattooing and cultural exchange in Oceania, and will appeal to the wide audience interested in the history of tattooing.