Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology

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Cambridge 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.
 

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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
Subject index
356
Index of Proto Polynesian Reconstructions
369
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Social and political organization
201

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