Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical AnthropologyThey illustrate their approach through meticulous application to the history of the Polynesian cultures, and for the first time reconstruct in extensive detail the Ancestral Polynesian culture that flourished in the Polynesian homeland - Hawaiki - some 2,500 years ago. Of great significance for Oceanic studies, Kirch and Green's book will be essential reading for any anthropologist, prehistorian, linguist, or cultural historian concerned with the theory and method of longterm history."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
The phylogenetic model in historical anthropology | 13 |
Methodologies implementing the phylogenetic model | 32 |
Polynesia as a phylogenetic unit | 53 |
Introductory remarks | 95 |
The Ancestral Polynesian world | 99 |
Subsistence | 120 |
Food preparation and cuisine | 143 |
Material culture | 163 |
Gods ancestors seasons and rituals | 237 |
on history phylogeny and evolution | 277 |
Notes | 285 |
Glossary of terms | 313 |
References | 317 |
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Social and political organization | 201 |
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Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology Patrick Vinton Kirch,Roger C. Green No preview available - 2001 |
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