Hawaiki

Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521788793
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stephenson Percy Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawaiki written by Stephenson Percy Smith and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephenson Percy Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawaiki: the Whence of the Maori written by Stephenson Percy Smith and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephenson Percy Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Hawaiki, the Original Home of the Maori written by Stephenson Percy Smith and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam Low
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824875249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawaiki Rising written by Sam Low and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attuned to a world of natural signs—the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells—Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing winds and currents aboard powerful double canoes to settle the vast Pacific Ocean. And they did this when Greek mariners still hugged the coast of an inland sea, and Europe was populated by stone-age farmers. Yet by the turn of the twentieth century, this story had been lost and Polynesians had become an oppressed minority in their own land. Then, in 1975, a replica of an ancient Hawaiian canoe—Hōkūle‘a—was launched to sail the ancient star paths, and help Hawaiians reclaim pride in the accomplishments of their ancestors. Hawaiki Rising tells this story in the words of the men and women who created and sailed aboard Hōkūle‘a. They speak of growing up at a time when their Hawaiian culture was in danger of extinction; of their vision of sailing ancestral sea-routes; and of the heartbreaking loss of Eddie Aikau in a courageous effort to save his crewmates when Hōkūle‘a capsized in a raging storm. We join a young Hawaiian, Nainoa Thompson, as he rediscovers the ancient star signs that guided his ancestors, navigates Hōkūle‘a to Tahiti, and becomes the first Hawaiian to find distant landfall without charts or instruments in a thousand years. Hawaiki Rising is the saga of an astonishing revival of indigenous culture by voyagers who took hold of the old story and sailed deep into their ancestral past.

Author : Patrick D. Nunn
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824832191
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific written by Patrick D. Nunn and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islands—as well as entire continents—are reputed to have disappeared in many parts of the world. Yet there is little information on this subject concerning its largest ocean, the Pacific. Over the years, geologists have amassed data that point to the undeniable fact of islands having disappeared in the Pacific, a phenomenon that the oral traditions of many groups of Pacific Islanders also highlight. There are even a few instances where fragments of Pacific continents have disappeared, becoming hidden from view rather than being submerged. In this scientifically rigorous yet readily comprehensible account of the fascinating subject of vanished islands and hidden continents in the Pacific, the author ranges far and wide, from explanations of the region’s ancient history to the meanings of island myths. Using both original and up-to-date information, he shows that there is real value in bringing together myths and the geological understanding of land movements. A description of the Pacific Basin and the "ups and downs" of the land within its vast ocean is followed by chapters explaining how—long before humans arrived in this part of the world—islands and continents that no longer exist were once present. A succinct account is given of human settlement of the region and the establishment of cultural contexts for the observation of occasional catastrophic earth-surface changes and their encryption in folklore. The author also addresses the persistent myths of a "sunken continent" in the Pacific, which became widespread after European arrival and were subsequently incorporated into new age and pseudoscience explanations of our planet and its inhabitants. Finally, he presents original data and research on island disappearances witnessed by humans, recorded in oral and written traditions, and judged by geoscience to be authentic. Examples are drawn from throughout the Pacific, showing that not only have islands collapsed, and even vanished, within the past few hundred years, but that they are also liable to do so in the future.

Author : Margaret Orbell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawaiki written by Margaret Orbell and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephenson Percy Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book Hawaiki: the Whence of the Maori written by Stephenson Percy Smith and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Tregear
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
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Download or read book The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary written by Edward Tregear and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Māori dictionary with English definitions and Polynesian comparisons"--BIM.

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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of the Polynesian Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: