ISBN:
9781139146562
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (395 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia : An Essay in Historical Anthropology
Keywords:
Ethnology
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Polynesians Social life and customs
;
Ethnology
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Hawaiians Social life and customs
;
Ethnology ; Hawaii
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Electronic books
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Polynesia Antiquities
;
Hawaii Antiquities
Abstract:
An anthropological approach to long-term history through detailed reconstruction of the Ancestral Polynesian culture, Hawaiki.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Language abbreviations -- Proto-language abbreviations -- Modern language abbreviations, and geographic affinity -- Prologue: on historical anthropology -- PART I The phylogenetic model: theory and method -- Chapter 1 The phylogenetic model in historical anthropology -- A brief history of the phylogenetic model -- Controlled comparison in Polynesia -- The phylogenetic model applied to Polynesia -- Necessary modifications to Vogt's methodology -- Dendritic versus reticulate models in historical anthropology -- Phylogenetic analysis in biology, linguistics, and anthropology -- The significance of phylogeny for historical anthropology -- Objectives of this book -- Chapter 2 Methodologies: implementing the phylogenetic model -- Correlating linguistic and archaeological evidence in Polynesia -- Linguistic models of divergence -- Dispersal centers and homelands -- Establishing time depth -- Terminology and units of analysis -- The triangulation method and its application to the phylogenetic model -- Lexical reconstruction and meaning -- The POLLEX project -- Ethnographic evidence -- Archaeology and the direct historical approach -- Chapter 3 Polynesia as a phylogenetic unit -- Polynesia as an emic category -- Linguistic perspectives -- The Oceanic subgroups -- Proto Central Pacific and the emergence of Proto Polynesian -- Internal classification of Polynesian -- Ethnological perspectives -- Cultural regions in Oceania -- Systemic cultural patterns that define Polynesia -- Cultural differentiation within Polynesia -- Polynesia as a biological unit -- Archaeological perspectives -- Fixing Ancestral Polynesia in time and space -- The breakup of Ancestral Polynesia and subsequent dispersals.
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