Author: Honor C. Maude
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9780646172651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Honor C. Maude
Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Author: Deryck Scarr
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136837892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day.

Author: Herman C. Kemp
Publisher: Yayasan Obor Indonesia
ISBN: 9789794614839
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Author: Clifford Sather
Publisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
ISBN: 9518580707
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Society is never just a localized aggregate of people but exists by virtue of its members’ narrative and conceptual awareness of other times and places. In Jukka Siikala’s work this idea evolves into a broad ethnographic and theoretical interest in worlds beyond the horizon, in the double sense of “past” and “abroad.” This book is a tribute to Jukka’s contributions to anthropology by his colleagues and students and marks his 60th birthday in January 2007. By exploring the near, distant, inward and outward horizons towards which societies project their reality, the authors aim at developing a new, productive language for addressing culture as a way of experiencing and engaging the world.

Author: Paul Rainbird
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521656306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: Jay Dobbin
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 082486011X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Summoning the Powers Beyond collects and reconstructs the old religions of preindustrial Micronesia. It draws mostly from written sources from the turn of the nineteenth century and the period immediately after World War II: reports of the Hamburg South Sea Expedition of 1908–1910, articles by German Roman Catholic missionaries in Micronesia included in the journal Anthropos, and reports by the Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology (CIMA) and the American Board of Commissioners of the Foreign Missions (ABCFM). A detailed introduction and an overview of Micronesian religion are followed by separate chapters detailing religion in the Chuukic-speaking islands, Pohnpei, Kosrae, the Marshall Islands, Yap, Palau, Kiribati, and Nauru. The Chamorro-speaking group of the Marianas is omitted because lengthy periods of intense military and missionary activity eradicated most of the local religion. The Polynesian outliers Nukuoro and Kapingamarangi are discussed at the end primarily to underscore the contrasts between Polynesian and Micronesian religion. In a concluding chapter, the author highlights the similarities and differences between the areas within Micronesia and then attempts an appreciation or evaluation of Micronesia religion. Finally, he addresses the evidence of a tentative hypothesis that Micronesian religion is sufficiently different from that of Polynesia and Melanesia to justify the continued claim of a separate Micronesian religion.

Author: Arthur Grimble
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9780646201283
Category : Banaba (Kiribati)
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: Raobeia Ken Sigrah
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820203228
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Stephen Robert Chadwick
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319226231
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Presenting spectacular photographs of astronomical objects of the southern sky, all taken by author Stephen Chadwick, this book explores what peoples of the South Pacific see when they look up at the heavens and what they have done with this knowledge. From wives killing brothers to emus rising out of the desert and great canoes in the sky, this book offers the perfect blend of science, tradition and mythology to bring to life the most famous sights in the heavens above the southern hemisphere. The authors place this starlore in the context of contemporary understandings of astronomy. The night sky of southern societies is as rich in culture as it is in stars. Stories, myths and legends based on constellations, heavenly bodies and other night sky phenomena have played a fundamental role in shaping the culture of pre-modern civilizations throughout the world. Such starlore continues to influence societies throughout the Pacific to this day, with cultures throughout the region – from Australia and New Zealand in the south to New Guinea and Micronesia in the north - using traditional cosmology as a means of interpreting various aspects of everyday life.