Author: Biddle Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 0816604967 Category : Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) Languages : en Pages : 221
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In 1920 the young American artist George Biddle, recently demobilized after serving in the front lines during World War I, sailed to the South Pacific to live on the island of Tahiti for two years. There he settled down in a native village a day?s trip fr.
Author: Douglas L. Oliver Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 0824884531 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1432
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“Tahiti is far famed yet too little known.” Thus wrote J. M. Orsmond in 1848, and the same assertion can be made in 1972. Thousands of pages had been published about Tahiti and its neighboring islands when Orsmond uttered his judgment, and tens of thousands have been published since that time, but a unified, comprehensive, and detailed description of the pre-European ways of life of the inhabitants of those Islands is yet to appear in print. The present work, lengthy as it is, makes no such claim to comprehensiveness; rather, it is concerned mainly with the social relations of those inhabitants, and it serves up only enough about their technology, their religion, their aesthetic expressions, and so forth to place descriptions of their social relations in context and render them more comprehensible. Volumes 1 and 2 of this work are a reconstruction of the Islanders’ way of life as it was believed to have been just before it began to be transformed by European influence—a period labeled the Late Indigenous Era. Volume 3 covers events in Tahiti and Mo‘orea from about 1767 to 1815—a period labeled the Early European Era.
Author: George Calderon Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317856708 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 361
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First published in 2008. The people and life of Tahiti had sunk deeply into the heart of Calderon; but when he returned home, he deliberately postponed the book he intended to write, in order that he might recall the memory in due perspective. He left it incomplete, but there is a synopsis which shows how he meant to construct it, with the help of these the book has been brought to the shape in which it is now published. The reader will understand how the book inevitably shows unevenness, save for the chapters which had received the author's finishing touch.
Author: David A. Chappell Publisher: M.E. Sharpe ISBN: 9780765636959 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 268
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This narrative recounts the 18th and 19th century shipping out of Pacific islanders aboard European and American vessels, a kind of counter-exploring, that echoed the ancient voyages of settlement of their island ancestors.
Author: Edwin N. Ferdon Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816534772 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 388
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For thirty years before the coming of the European missionaries, European explorers were able to observe Tahitian society as it had existed for centuries. Now Edwin Ferdon, Polynesian archaeologist and veteran of Thor Heyerdah's expedition to Easter Island, has interwoven their records to show us in fascinating detail what that society was like.
Author: Biddle
Author: Paul Gauguin
Author: Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
Author: Hugh Carrington
Author: Douglas L. Oliver
Author: George Calderon
Author: United States. National Institute of Neurologiacal Diseases and Stroke
Author: George Calderon
Author: David A. Chappell
Author: Edwin N. Ferdon