Author: Bernice Pauahi Bishop MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
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Author: Bernice Pauahi Bishop MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Vaka
Author: Thomas R. A. H. DavisPublisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820201538
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A novel about a great Polynesian voyaging canoe; "Takitumu"; and the people who sailed across Te Moana Nui a Kiva (the Pacific Ocean).
The Journal of the Polynesian Society
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
For Better or for Worse
Author: Sabine FentonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317640578
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The essays in this book explore the vital role translation has played in defining, changing and redefining linguistic, cultural, ethnic and political identities in several nations of the South Pacific. While in other parts of the world postcolonial scholars have scrutinized the role and history of translation and exposed its close relationship with the colonizers, this has not yet happened in the specific region covered in this collection. In translation studies the Pacific region is terra incognita. The writers of this volume of essays reveal that in the Pacific, as in all other once colonized parts of the world, colonialism and translation went hand in hand. The unsettling power of translation is described as it effected change for better or for worse. While the Pacific Islanders' encounter with the Europeans has previously been described as having a 'Fatal Impact', the authors of these essays are further able to demonstrate that the Pacific Islanders were not only victims but also played an active role in the cross-cultural events they were party to and in shaping their own destinies. Examples of the role of translation in effecting change - for better or for worse - abound in the history of the nations of the Pacific. These stories are told here in order to bring this region into the mainstream scholarly attention of postcolonial and translation studies.
Tongan Place Names
Author: Edward Winslow GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geographical --tonga
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia
Author: Patrick Vinton KirchPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521788793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and comparative word lists. In this innovative book, Kirch and Green explicitly develop the theoretical underpinnings, as well as the particular methods, for such a historical anthropology. Drawing upon and integrating the approaches of archaeology, comparative ethnography, and historical linguistics, they advance a phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, and apply a triangulation method for historical reconstruction. They illustrate their approach through meticulous application to the history of the Polynesian cultures, and for the first time reconstruct in extensive detail the Ancestral Polynesian culture that flourished in the Polynesian homeland - Hawaiki - some 2,500 years ago. Of great significance for Oceanic studies, Kirch and Green's book will be essential reading for any anthropologist, prehistorian, linguist, or cultural historian concerned with the theory and method of long-term history.
Polynesian Seafaring and Navigation
Author: Richard FeinbergPublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387880
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
After fourteen months of field research in 1972-73 and an additional four months of field work with the Anutans in the Solomon Islands capital of Honiara in 1983, Richard Feinberg here provides a thorough study of Anutan seafaring and navigation. In doing so he gives rare insights into the larger picture of how Polynesians have adapted to the sea. This richly illustrated book explores the theory and technique used by Anutans in construction, use, and handling of their craft; the navigational skills still employed in interisland voyaging; and their culturally patterned attitudes toward the ocean and travel on the high seas. Further, the discussion is set within the context of social relations, values, and the Anutan's own symbolic definitions of the world in which they live.
Te tala o Niuoku
Author: Suamalie N. T. IosefaPublisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820200739
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change
Author: T. J. DemosPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000342247
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture, and their ethics and values, matter with regard to a world increasingly shaped by climate breakdown? Foregrounding a decolonial and climate-justice-based approach, this book joins efforts within the environmental humanities in seeking to widen considerations of climate change as it intersects with social, political, and cultural realms. It simultaneously expands the nascent branches of ecocritical art history and visual culture, and builds toward the advancement of a robust and critical interdisciplinarity appropriate to the complex entanglements of climate change. This book will be of special interest to scholars and practitioners of contemporary art and visual culture, environmental studies, cultural geography, and political ecology.
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