Polynesians In America

Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759120064
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polynesians in America written by Terry L. Jones and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored evidence provide a stronger case than ever before for multiple prehistoric Polynesian landfalls. This book reviews the debate, evaluates theoretical trends that have discouraged consideration of trans-oceanic contacts, summarizes the historic evidence and supplements it with recent archaeological, linguistic, botanical, and physical anthropological findings. Written by leading experts in their fields, this is a must-have volume for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and anyone else interested in the remarkable long-distance voyages made by Polynesians. The combined evidence is used to argue that that Polynesians almost certainly made landfall in southern South America on the coast of Chile, in northern South America in the vicinity of the Gulf of Guayaquil, and on the coast of southern California in North America.

Author : Wallace Patrick Strauss
Publisher : East Lansing : ichigan State University Press, 1963 [i.e.1964]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Americans in Polynesia, 1783-1842 written by Wallace Patrick Strauss and published by East Lansing : ichigan State University Press, 1963 [i.e.1964]. This book was released on 1964 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the first American traders, explorers and missionaries to visit the Polynesian islands.

Author : Maile Renee Arvin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478005653
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Possessing Polynesians written by Maile Renee Arvin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polynesians Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia, especially in Hawai‘i. Arvin argues that a logic of possession through whiteness animates settler colonialism, by which both Polynesia (the place) and Polynesians (the people) become exotic, feminized belongings of whiteness. Seeing whiteness as indigenous to Polynesia provided white settlers with the justification needed to claim Polynesian lands and resources. Understood as possessions, Polynesians were and continue to be denied the privileges of whiteness. Yet Polynesians have long contested these classifications, claims, and cultural representations, and Arvin shows how their resistance to and refusal of white settler logic have regenerated Indigenous forms of recognition.

Author : Paul R. Cheesman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early America and the Polynesians written by Paul R. Cheesman and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carol A. Shively
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781590911679
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War written by Carol A. Shively and published by . This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Dunmore Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book View of the origin and migrations of the Polynesian nation; demonstrating their ancient discovery of the continent of America written by John Dunmore Lang and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christina Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062060899
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea People written by Christina Thompson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind. For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world. Sea People includes an 8-page photo insert, illustrations throughout, and 2 endpaper maps.

Author : John Dunmore Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origin and Migrations of the Polynesian Nation written by John Dunmore Lang and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher : London : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indians in the Pacific written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by London : Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1952 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory behind the Kon-Tiki expedition.

Author : John Dunmore Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origin and migrations of the Polynesian nation written by John Dunmore Lang and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: