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Author | : Jeffrey Sissons |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2014-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1782384146 |
Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed or desecrated all of their temples and most of their god-images. In the aftermath of the explosive event, which Sissons terms the Polynesian Iconoclasm, hundreds of architecturally innovative churches — one the size of two football fields — were constructed. At the same time, Christian leaders introduced oppressive laws and courts, which the youth resisted through seasonal displays of revelry and tattooing. Seeking an answer to why this event occurred in the way that it did, this book introduces and demonstrates an alternative “practice history” that draws on the work of Marshall Sahlins and employs Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, improvisation and practical logic.
Author | : Richard Feinberg |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2003-03-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780873387880 |
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.
Author | : Christina Thompson |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-03-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062060899 |
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 | : Abraham Fornander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Hawaii |
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Author | : Melani Anae |
Publisher | : Bridget Williams Books |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1988587409 |
In a book that is both deeply personal and highly political, Melani Anae recalls the radical activism of Auckland’s Polynesian Panthers. In solidarity with the US Black Panther Party, the Polynesian Panthers was founded in response to the racist treatment of Pacific Islanders in the era of the Dawn Raids. Central to the group’s philosophy was a three-point ‘platform’ of peaceful resistance, Pacific empowerment and educating New Zealand about persistent and systemic racism.
Author | : William Churchill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Abraham Fornander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Hawaiians |
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Author | : Patrick Vinton Kirch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1989-07-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521273169 |
A first study from an archaeological perspective of the elaborate systems of Polynesian chiefdoms presents an original account of the processes of cultural change and evolution over three millennia.
Author | : Adrienne L. Kaeppler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2008-03-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0192842382 |
With more than one hundred illustrations--most in full color--this volume offers a stimulating and insightful account of two dynamic artistic cultures, traditions that have had a considerable impact on modern western art through the influence of artists such as Gauguin. After an introduction to Polynesian and Micronesian art separately, the book focuses on the artistic types, styles, and concepts shared by the two island groups, thereby placing each in its wider cultural context. From the textiles of Tonga to the canoes of Tahiti, Adrienne Kaeppler sheds light on religious and sacred rituals and objects, carving, architecture, tattooing, and much more.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
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