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Book Synopsis Polynesian Religion by : Edward Smith Craighill Handy
Download or read book Polynesian Religion written by Edward Smith Craighill Handy and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Polynesian Iconoclasm by : Jeffrey Sissons
Download or read book The Polynesian Iconoclasm written by Jeffrey Sissons and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Religion and Social Organization in Central Polynesia by : Robert W. Williamson
Download or read book Religion and Social Organization in Central Polynesia written by Robert W. Williamson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1937, this presents a detailed account of religious and mythical structures in Central Polynesia.
Book Synopsis Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia by : Robert W. Williamson
Download or read book Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia written by Robert W. Williamson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1933, this book forms one of two volumes on the religious, mythical and cosmic structures of Central Polynesia.
Book Synopsis Polynesian Religion by : Edward Smith Craighill Handy
Download or read book Polynesian Religion written by Edward Smith Craighill Handy and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Polynesian Religion by : Edward Smith Craighill Handy
Download or read book Polynesian Religion written by Edward Smith Craighill Handy and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rank and Religion in Tikopia (Routledge Revivals) by : Raymond Firth
Download or read book Rank and Religion in Tikopia (Routledge Revivals) written by Raymond Firth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1970, this book represents a unique study of beliefs and ritual practices in a pagan religion, and of the processes by which a transformation to Christianity took place. Christianity came to the major islands of Polynesia nearly two centuries ago, and within a couple of generations, the traditional pagan religion had disappeared. Only a few remote islands such as Tikopia preserved their ancient cults. Over eighty years ago, the author first observed and took part in these pagan rites, and on later visits he studied the change from paganism to Christian faith. Unique in its rich documentation, this book presents a systematic account of the traditional beliefs in gods and spirits and of the way in which these were fused with the social and political structure. The causes and dramatic results of the conversion to Christianity are then described, ending with an examination of the religious situation at the time of the book’s original publication. The book is both a contribution to anthropology and a case study in religious history. It completes the major series of studies of Tikopia society for which the author is famous. It gives the first full account of a Polynesian religious system in a state of change.
Book Synopsis Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia by : Patrick Vinton Kirch
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: An anthropological approach to long-term history through detailed reconstruction of the Ancestral Polynesian culture, Hawaiki.
Book Synopsis Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia by : Robert Wood Williamson
Download or read book Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia written by Robert Wood Williamson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1933 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Chosen People, a Promised Land by : Hokulani K. Aikau
Download or read book A Chosen People, a Promised Land written by Hokulani K. Aikau and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Native Hawaiians' experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions
Book Synopsis Essays in Polynesian Ethnology by : Robert W. Williamson
Download or read book Essays in Polynesian Ethnology written by Robert W. Williamson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1939 text examines whether the formation of a cohesive ethnology of Polynesia could be possible.
Book Synopsis Polynesia in Early Historic Times by : Douglas L. Oliver
Download or read book Polynesia in Early Historic Times written by Douglas L. Oliver and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a comprehensive and balanced description of major aspects of Polynesian cultures, using both the accounts of the European "discoverers" and the up-to-date writings of archaeologists and anthropologists".--BOOKJACKET.
Book Synopsis Maori and Polynesian by : John Macmillan Brown
Download or read book Maori and Polynesian written by John Macmillan Brown and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rank and Religion in Tikopia (Routledge Revivals) by : Raymond Firth
Download or read book Rank and Religion in Tikopia (Routledge Revivals) written by Raymond Firth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1970, this book represents a unique study of beliefs and ritual practices in a pagan religion, and of the processes by which a transformation to Christianity took place. Christianity came to the major islands of Polynesia nearly two centuries ago, and within a couple of generations, the traditional pagan religion had disappeared. Only a few remote islands such as Tikopia preserved their ancient cults. Over eighty years ago, the author first observed and took part in these pagan rites, and on later visits he studied the change from paganism to Christian faith. Unique in its rich documentation, this book presents a systematic account of the traditional beliefs in gods and spirits and of the way in which these were fused with the social and political structure. The causes and dramatic results of the conversion to Christianity are then described, ending with an examination of the religious situation at the time of the book’s original publication. The book is both a contribution to anthropology and a case study in religious history. It completes the major series of studies of Tikopia society for which the author is famous. It gives the first full account of a Polynesian religious system in a state of change.
Book Synopsis Religion and Social Organization in Central Polynesia by : Robert Wood Williamson
Download or read book Religion and Social Organization in Central Polynesia written by Robert Wood Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Wood Williamson (1856-1932) was a British solicitor and anthropologist who worked extensively in New Guinea and Polynesia.
Book Synopsis Introduction to Huna: The Workable Psycho-religious System of the Polynesians by : Max Freedom Long
Download or read book Introduction to Huna: The Workable Psycho-religious System of the Polynesians written by Max Freedom Long and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DURING THE past century investigations have been made of native magic in Africa, India and other parts of the world. Spiritualistic phenomena have been certified as genuine and studied painstakingly by over a hundred recognized scientists. Religions have been surveyed and the instant or nearly instant miraculous healing at Lourdes verified. But from all these studies and efforts there has come nothing faintly resembling a definite basic system, philosophy, theory, or psycho-religious science which would explain, even in the most general terms, the phenomena of the various fields. In fact, investigations in these fields began to arrive at a stalemate several years ago. New discoveries have been conspicuously lacking. A much fuller and more detailed account of the long investigation is planned when the last stage-the experimental stage-has added its quota. (From Part 1) Get Your Copy Today!
Book Synopsis Summoning the Powers Beyond by : Jay Dobbin
Download or read book Summoning the Powers Beyond written by Jay Dobbin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summoning the Powers Beyond collects and reconstructs the old religions of preindustrial Micronesia. It draws mostly from written sources from the turn of the nineteenth century and the period immediately after World War II: reports of the Hamburg South Sea Expedition of 1908–1910, articles by German Roman Catholic missionaries in Micronesia included in the journal Anthropos, and reports by the Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology (CIMA) and the American Board of Commissioners of the Foreign Missions (ABCFM). A detailed introduction and an overview of Micronesian religion are followed by separate chapters detailing religion in the Chuukic-speaking islands, Pohnpei, Kosrae, the Marshall Islands, Yap, Palau, Kiribati, and Nauru. The Chamorro-speaking group of the Marianas is omitted because lengthy periods of intense military and missionary activity eradicated most of the local religion. The Polynesian outliers Nukuoro and Kapingamarangi are discussed at the end primarily to underscore the contrasts between Polynesian and Micronesian religion. In a concluding chapter, the author highlights the similarities and differences between the areas within Micronesia and then attempts an appreciation or evaluation of Micronesia religion. Finally, he addresses the evidence of a tentative hypothesis that Micronesian religion is sufficiently different from that of Polynesia and Melanesia to justify the continued claim of a separate Micronesian religion.