The Hidden Worlds of Polynesia
Author | : Robert Carl Suggs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Marquesas Islands |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Carl Suggs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Marquesas Islands |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kenneth Pike Emory |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Hawaii |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Carl Suggs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Patrick Vinton Kirch |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2015-10-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0824853482 |
Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. For close to fifty years he explored the Pacific, as his work took him to more than two dozen islands spread across the ocean, from Mussau to Hawai'i to Easter Island. In this lively memoir, rich with personal—and often amusing—anecdotes, Kirch relates his many adventures while doing fieldwork on remote islands. At the age of thirteen, Kirch was accepted as a summer intern by the eccentric Bishop Museum zoologist Yoshio Kondo and was soon participating in archaeological digs on the islands of Hawai'i and Maui. He continued to apprentice with Kondo during his high school years at Punahou, and after obtaining his anthropology degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Kirch joined a Bishop Museum expedition to Anuta Island, where a traditional Polynesian culture still flourished. His appetite whetted by these adventures, Kirch went on to obtain his doctorate at Yale University with a study of the traditional irrigation-based chiefdoms of Futuna Island. Further expeditions have taken him to isolated Tikopia, where his excavations exposed stratified sites extending back three thousand years; to Niuatoputapu, a former outpost of the Tongan maritime empire; to Mangaia, with its fortified refuge caves; and to Mo'orea, where chiefs vied to construct impressive temples to the war god 'Oro. In Hawai'i, Kirch traced the islands' history in the Anahulu valley and across the ancient district of Kahikinui, Maui. His joint research with ecologists, soil scientists, and paleontologists elucidated how Polynesians adapted to their island ecosystems. Looking back over the past half-century of Polynesian archaeology, Kirch reflects on how the questions we ask about the past have changed over the decades, how archaeological methods have advanced, and how our knowledge of the Polynesian past has greatly expanded.
Author | : Lowell Don Holmes |
Publisher | : Sheridan House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781574091304 |
Not only the British writer himself, already famous for novels and poems, but his family with him took to the sea between 1888 and 1890 to search Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia for Robert's health and adventure. Writer and film maker Holmes (emeritus anthropology, Wichita State U. Kansas) has
Author | : Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henri J. M. Claessen |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 705 |
Release | : 2011-11-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3110813327 |
Author | : Frank Joseph |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2006-05-17 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1591439493 |
A compelling new portrait of the lost realm of Lemuria, the original motherland of humanity • Contains the most extensive and up-to-date archaeological research on Lemuria • Reveals a lost, ancient technology in some respects more advanced than modern science • Provides evidence that the perennial philosophies have their origin in Lemurian culture Before the Indonesian tsunami or Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans, there was the destruction of Lemuria. Oral tradition in Polynesia recounts the story of a splendid kingdom that was carried to the bottom of the sea by a mighty “warrior wave”--a tsunami. This lost realm has been cited in numerous other indigenous traditions, spanning the globe from Australia to Asia to the coasts of both South and North America. It was known as Lemuria or Mu, a vast realm of islands and archipelagoes that once sprawled across the Pacific Ocean. Relying on 10 years of research and extensive travel, Frank Joseph offers a compelling picture of this motherland of humanity, which he suggests was the original Garden of Eden. Using recent deep-sea archaeological finds, enigmatic glyphs and symbols, and ancient records shared by cultures divided by great distances that document the story of this sunken world, Joseph painstakingly re-creates a picture of this civilization in which people lived in rare harmony and possessed a sophisticated technology that allowed them to harness the weather, defy gravity, and conduct genetic investigations far beyond what is possible today. When disaster struck Lemuria, the survivors made their way to other parts of the world, incorporating their scientific and mystical skills into the existing cultures of Asia, Polynesia, and the Americas. Totem poles of the Pacific Northwest, architecture in China, the colossal stone statues on Easter Island, and even the perennial philosophies all reveal their kinship to this now-vanished civilization.
Author | : Christopher McBride |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2004-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135877394 |
Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--"The Colonizer Abroad" claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the literature of the sea became a literature of imperialism. This book applies postcolonial theory to the travel writing of some of America's best-known authors, revealing the ways in which America's travel fiction and nonfiction have both reflected and shaped society.
Author | : Polynesian Society (N.Z.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Polynesia |
ISBN | : |
Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.