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Culture and history in the Pacific /
Culture and History in the Pacific is a collection of essays originally published in 1990. The texts explore from different perspectives the question of culture as a repository of historical information. They also address broader questions of anthropological writing at the time, such as the relation...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Helsinki :
Helsinki University Press,
2021
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| Edición: | [Second edition] |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the Second Edition / Tuomas Tammisto & Heikki Wilenius
- Crossing Borders: Changing Contexts of This Book / Petra Autio
- Introduction / Jukka Siikala
- History and the representation of Polynesian societies / Judith Huntsman & Antony Bramston Hooper
- Artefacts of history: Events and the interpretation of images / Marilyn Strathern
- Diarchy and history in Hawaiʻi and Tonga / Valerio Valeri
- Under the Toa tree: The genealogy of the Tongan Chiefs / Aletta Biersack
- Chiefs, gender and hierarchy in Ngāpūtoru / Jukka Siikala
- Class and social differentiation in Oceania / V. A. Shnirelman
- New lessons from old shells: Changing perspectives on the Kula / Roger M. Keesing
- Gift exchange and the construction of identity / John Liep
- 'Canoe traffic' of the Torres Strait and Fly Estuary / David Russell Lawrence
- Cultural history of the Pacific and the bark cloth making in Central Sulawesi / Eija-Maija Kotilainen
- The material culture of music performance on Manihiki / Helen Reeves Lawrence
- The 'golden section' on Kitawa Island / Giancarlo M. G. Scoditti
- Decipherment of the Easter Island script / N. A. Butinov.