Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical AnthropologyCambridge University Press, 15 mar 2001 - 375 páginas 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 longterm history."--BOOK JACKET. |
Índice
The phylogenetic model in historical anthropology | 13 |
Methodologies implementing the phylogenetic model | 32 |
Polynesia as a phylogenetic unit | 53 |
Introductory remarks | 95 |
The Ancestral Polynesian world | 99 |
Subsistence | 120 |
Food preparation and cuisine | 143 |
Material culture | 163 |
Gods ancestors seasons and rituals | 237 |
on history phylogeny and evolution | 277 |
Notes | 285 |
Glossary of terms | 313 |
References | 317 |
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Social and political organization | 201 |
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Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology Patrick Vinton Kirch,Roger C. Green No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2001 |
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Ancestral Polynesian Ancestral Polynesian culture Ancestral Polynesian societies archaeological evidence ariki Auckland Australian National University Austronesian bark cloth Bernice Biggs biological Bishop Museum Bishop Museum Bulletin Blust borrowing breadfruit Canberra Canoe central Eastern Polynesia coconut cognate cooking culture history earth oven Eastern Lapita Eastern Polynesia ethnographic Fiji fishing Futuna genetic gloss Green Hawai'i Hiroa historical anthropology historical linguistics Honolulu innovation interstage islands kaainga kainanga Kirch Lapita lexemes lexical reconstruction linguistic evidence lunar marae Marck material culture meaning NCOG Niuatoputapu Pawley and Ross phylogenetic model plainware Pleiades POLLEX Polynesian culture Polynesian homeland Polynesian languages Polynesian Outliers Polynesian societies pottery PPN reconstructions PPN term Prehistory prime semantic agreement Proto Polynesian terms proto-language referred reflexes Remote Oceania ritual Samoa semantic history semantic reconstruction shell social group specific stone subgroups Table Tikopia Tonga Tongatapu University Press Uvea Western Zealand
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