Possessing Polynesians

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478005653
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Possessing Polynesians by : Maile Renee Arvin

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 206 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.

Polynesians in America

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Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759120064
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Book Synopsis Polynesians in America by : Terry L. Jones

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.

Sea People

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062060899
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Sea People by : Christina Thompson

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.

The Polynesians

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ISBN 13 : 9789999449878
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (498 download)

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Book Synopsis The Polynesians by : Peter S. Bellwood

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Myths and Legends of the Polynesians

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486285820
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Book Synopsis Myths and Legends of the Polynesians by : Johannes Carl Andersen

Download or read book Myths and Legends of the Polynesians written by Johannes Carl Andersen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative recounting of myths and legends — gods and creation, nature and supernatural, love and war, revenge, more — plus a lively commentary on Polynesian life and culture. 77 illustrations.

The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192842382
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia by : Adrienne L. Kaeppler

Download or read book The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia written by Adrienne L. Kaeppler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Platform

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Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 1988587409
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Book Synopsis The Platform by : Melani Anae

Download or read book The Platform written by Melani Anae and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Islands, Plants, and Polynesians

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Publisher : Portland, Or. : Dioscorides Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Islands, Plants, and Polynesians by : Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus. Institute for Polynesian Studies

Download or read book Islands, Plants, and Polynesians written by Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus. Institute for Polynesian Studies and published by Portland, Or. : Dioscorides Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays examine the diverse plant environments of Polynesia, the relationship of plants to Polynesian voyaging, plant introductions, origins of Polynesian cultivars, plant names, agricultural practices, and use of specific plants by Polynesians.

Polynesian Seafaring and Navigation

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Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873387880
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (878 download)

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Book Synopsis Polynesian Seafaring and Navigation by : Richard Feinberg

Download or read book Polynesian Seafaring and Navigation written by Richard Feinberg and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Polynesia, 900-1600

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Publisher : Past Imperfect
ISBN 13 : 9781641892148
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (921 download)

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Book Synopsis Polynesia, 900-1600 by : Madi Williams

Download or read book Polynesia, 900-1600 written by Madi Williams and published by Past Imperfect. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical overview and thematic examination of Polynesia (especially New Zealand and its outlying islands), 900-1600.

Polynesia in Early Historic Times

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Publisher : Bess Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573061254
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (612 download)

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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.

The Polynesian Iconoclasm

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782384146
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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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.

The Journal of the Polynesian Society

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Book Synopsis The Journal of the Polynesian Society by : Polynesian Society (N.Z.)

Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.

Facing the Pacific

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824830660
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Book Synopsis Facing the Pacific by : Jeffrey A. Geiger

Download or read book Facing the Pacific written by Jeffrey A. Geiger and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the west—connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life. Facing the Pacific is the first study to offer a detailed look at the United States’ intense engagement with the myth of the South Seas just after the First World War, when, at home, a popular vogue for all things Polynesian seemed to echo the expansion of U.S. imperialist activities abroad. Jeffrey Geiger looks at a variety of texts that helped to invent a vision of Polynesia for U.S. audiences, focusing on a group of writers and filmmakers whose mutual fascination with the South Pacific drew them together—and would eventually drive some of them apart. Key figures discussed in this volume are Frederick O’Brien, author of the bestseller White Shadows in the South Seas; filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, who collaborated on Moana; director W. S. Van Dyke, who worked with Robert Flaherty on MGM’s adaptation of White Shadows; and Expressionist director F. W. Murnau, whose last film, Tabu, was co-directed with Flaherty.

Polynesian Herbal Medicine

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Publisher : W. Arthur Whistler
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Polynesian Herbal Medicine written by W. Arthur Whistler and published by W. Arthur Whistler. This book was released on 1992 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The aim of this book is to present a picture of past and present Polynesian medicinal plants. Although several books have been published on herbal medicine in Polynesia, these are either limited in geographic scope (mostly to Hawai'i) or are unscientific in basis. Restricting the study of herbal medicine to a single Polynesian island or archipelago is a disadvantage because the early accounts of medicinal practices are so sketchy. A more comprehensive approach is rewarding because so much can be learned from the similarities among the various Polynesian cultures. A scientific approach is necessary because of the nature of the subject--medicine and plants. "To establish a comprehensive and scientific basis for this book, three types of research were conducted: (1) an extensive review of the literature on Polynesia; (2) interviews with scores of Polynesian healers in Hawai'i, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti. the Cook Islands, and Tokelau; and (3) botanical collecting work in Polynesia over a twenty-year period, involving over forty research trips to the South Pacific." --from the Preface

The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107625823
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia by : Robert W. Williamson

Download or read book The Social and Political Systems 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 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1924, this book forms part of a three-volume study on the socio-political systems of Polynesian islands near the equator.

Lehi, Father of Polynesia

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ISBN 13 : 9780967748207
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (482 download)

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Book Synopsis Lehi, Father of Polynesia by : Bruce S. Sutton

Download or read book Lehi, Father of Polynesia written by Bruce S. Sutton and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: