The growth and collapse of Pacific island societies : archaeological and demographic perspectives /

Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai'i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? Is it possible to develop new methods for tracking the long-term histories of island populations?...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kirch, Patrick Vinton, Rallu, Jean-Louis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Ethnology > Oceania.
Ethnology > Hawaii.
First contact (Anthropology) > Oceania.
First contact (Anthropology) > Hawaii.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Oceania.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Hawaii.
Ethnologie > Océanie.
Ethnologie > Hawaii.
Premiers contacts (Anthropologie) > Océanie.
Premiers contacts (Anthropologie) > Hawaii.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Océanie.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Hawaii.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Antiquities
Ethnology
Excavations (Archaeology)
First contact (Anthropology)
Population
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Kulturkontakt
Ethnologie
Archäologie
Bevolkingsontwikkeling.
Historische demografie.
Oceania > Population > History.
Hawaii > Population > History.
Oceania > Antiquities.
Hawaii > Antiquities.
Océanie > Population > Histoire.
Hawaii > Population > Histoire.
Hawaii
Oceania
Ozeanien
Oceanië.
Weiße.
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Long-term demographic evolution in the Pacific islands : issues debates, and challenges / Patrick V. Kirch and Jean-Louis Rallu
  • Pre- and post-contact population in island Polynesia : can projections meet retrodictions? / Jean-Louis Rallu
  • Demography and food in early Polynesia / Shripad Tuljapurkar, Charlotte Lee, and Michelle Figgs
  • "Like shoals of fish" : archaeology and population in pre-contact Hawaiʻi / Patrick V. Kirch
  • Modeling agricultural development and demography in Kohala, Hawaiʻi Island / Thegn N. Ladefoged and Michael W. Graves
  • Paleodemography in Kahikinui, Maui : an archaeological approach / Patrick V. Kirch
  • Reconstructing Hawaiian population at European contact : three regional case studies / Ross Cordy
  • Pre-contact population in the 'Opunohu Valley, Mo'orea : an integrated archaeological and ethnohistorical approach / Brenda K. Hamilton and Jennifer G. Kahn
  • Estimating the population of Hokatu Valley, Ua Huka Island (Marquesas-French Polynesia) according to the archaeological remains / Eric Conte and Tamara Maric
  • Archaeological demography and population growth in the Kingdom of Tonga : 950 B.C. to the historic era / David V. Burley
  • Protohistoric Samoan population / Roger C. Green
  • An accent on atolls in approaches to population histories of remote Oceania / Valerie J. Green and Roger C. Green
  • Prehistoric population growth on Kosrae, eastern Caroline Islands / J. Stephen Athens
  • Population in a vegetable kingdom : Aneityum Island (Vanuatu) at European contact in 1830 / Matthew Spriggs
  • What were the real numbers? : the question of pre-contact population densities in New Caledonia / Christophe Sand, Jacques Bole, and A. Ouetcho
  • Concluding remarks : methods, measures, and models in Pacific paleodemography / Patrick V. Kirch.

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