Australia & the Pacific

ISBN: 9780333949757
Published by : Palgrave
The Pacific islanders were once viewed as naive victims of foreign exploitation although this book argues that the island identity of the Pacific people was strong before the arrival of the first Europeans and that although human confrontation ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780333949764
Published by : Palgrave
The Pacific islanders were once viewed as naive victims of foreign exploitation although this book argues that the island identity of the Pacific people was strong before the arrival of the first Europeans and that although human confrontation ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781859736173
Published by : Berg Publishers
Series: Materializing Culture
Malanggan are the funerary effigies of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, which can be found in ethnographic museums throughout the world. Malanggan is also the generic name of a funerary ritual that culminates in the production of effigies, their... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781859736227
Published by : Berg Publishers
Series: Materializing Culture
Malanggan are the funerary effigies of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, which can be found in ethnographic museums throughout the world. Malanggan is also the generic name of a funerary ritual that culminates in the production of effigies, their... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841714578
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR Archaeopress
Volume: 1080
There has been a distinct lack of intensive documentation of the history of the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea, leaving the origins of the people shrouded in myth. In 1998 and 1999 a project undertaken by Gotland University College in Sw... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780868405858
Published by : E.D.S.
This work is an insight into Aboriginal life in Sydney before, during and after colonization in 1788, and into the drastic impact of white settlement up to 30 years after colonization. It covers historical, archaeological and environmental reco... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780874807202
Published by : University of Utah Press
The Aleutian Archipelago, the home of the Aleut forms the cultural crossroads of the north Pacific. Waldemar Jochelson spent the years 1909 to 1910 in the Aleutian islands conducting ethnological, archaeological and linguistic studies. This boo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521788793
Published by : Cambridge University Press
An indepth study of the genealogical history of Polynesian cultures which goes beyond the material culture evidence. Kirch and Green combine documentary writings, native accounts, archaeological finds, physical anthropology, ethnology and ling... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780306462573
Published by : Kluwer Academic Publishers
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