Author: Epeli Hauʹofa
Publisher: Canberra : Australian National University Press ; Miami, Fla. : Books Australia
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Mekeo
Author: Epeli Hauʹofa
Publisher: Canberra : Australian National University Press ; Miami, Fla. : Books Australia
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher: Canberra : Australian National University Press ; Miami, Fla. : Books Australia
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Stewart's Handbook of the Pacific Islands
Author: Percy Stafford Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Towards a Lexicogrammar of Mekeo
Author: Alan A. Jones
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land
Author: Thomas Reuter
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 192094270X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This collection of papers is the fifth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Reflecting the unique experience of fourteen ethnographers in as many different societies, the papers in this volume explore how people in the Austronesian-speaking societies of the Asia-Pacific have traditionally constructed their relationship to land and specific territories. Focused on the nexus of local and global processes, the volume offers fresh perspectives to current debate in social theory on the conflicting human tendencies of mobility and emplacement.
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 192094270X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This collection of papers is the fifth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Reflecting the unique experience of fourteen ethnographers in as many different societies, the papers in this volume explore how people in the Austronesian-speaking societies of the Asia-Pacific have traditionally constructed their relationship to land and specific territories. Focused on the nexus of local and global processes, the volume offers fresh perspectives to current debate in social theory on the conflicting human tendencies of mobility and emplacement.
Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas
Author: Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110819724
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1903
Book Description
“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110819724
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1903
Book Description
“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
Stewart's Hand Book of the Pacific Islands
Author: Percy Stafford Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Landmarks
Author: Andrew Strathern
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384797
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Landmarks addresses a wide range of questions relevant to the recent history of anthropology and its importance to contemporary issues. These questions include the significance of anthropology for Third World studies; the debate on whether anthropology is a scientific or a humanistic subject; anthropology as a means of reflecting on ourselves as well as others; and the criticisms of anthropological work that have emerged out of postmodernism. Drawing on his research findings in Papua New guinea since 1964 and his more recent work on the cross-cultural study of medicine, the author examines the extent to which we can achieve understanding between different cultures and the relative merits of approaches that stress indigenous categories or those of the observer. He concludes that the discipline now requires reconstruction rather than deconstruction, and advances the call for holistic models of human behavior which re-conceptualize the relationship between body and mind.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384797
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Landmarks addresses a wide range of questions relevant to the recent history of anthropology and its importance to contemporary issues. These questions include the significance of anthropology for Third World studies; the debate on whether anthropology is a scientific or a humanistic subject; anthropology as a means of reflecting on ourselves as well as others; and the criticisms of anthropological work that have emerged out of postmodernism. Drawing on his research findings in Papua New guinea since 1964 and his more recent work on the cross-cultural study of medicine, the author examines the extent to which we can achieve understanding between different cultures and the relative merits of approaches that stress indigenous categories or those of the observer. He concludes that the discipline now requires reconstruction rather than deconstruction, and advances the call for holistic models of human behavior which re-conceptualize the relationship between body and mind.
On the Order of Chaos
Author: Mark S. Mosko
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845450243
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The essays in this volume collectively transform perspectives previously experienced as divergent, conflicting, and inconsistent into a common and complex orientation to problems central to the natural and social sciences involving transitions between order and disorder."--Jacket.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845450243
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The essays in this volume collectively transform perspectives previously experienced as divergent, conflicting, and inconsistent into a common and complex orientation to problems central to the natural and social sciences involving transitions between order and disorder."--Jacket.
The Ways of the South Seas Savage
Author: Robert Wood Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Archaeology and Language II
Author: Roger Blench
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134828691
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be very similar. While there is a new awareness that these disciplines can be used to complement one another, both rigorous methodological awareness and detailed case-studies are still lacking in the literature. This three-part survey is the first study to address this. Archaeology and Language II examines in some detail how archaeological data can be interpreted through linguistic hypotheses. This collection demonstrates the possibility that, where archaeological sequences are reasonably well-known, they might be tied into evidence of language diversification and thus produce absolute chronologies. Where there is evidence for migrations and expansions these can be explored through both disciplines to produce a richer interpretation of prehistory. An important part of this is the origin and spread of food production which can be modelled through the spread of both plants and words for them. Archaeology and Language II will be of interest to researchers in linguistics, archaeologists and anthropologists.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134828691
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be very similar. While there is a new awareness that these disciplines can be used to complement one another, both rigorous methodological awareness and detailed case-studies are still lacking in the literature. This three-part survey is the first study to address this. Archaeology and Language II examines in some detail how archaeological data can be interpreted through linguistic hypotheses. This collection demonstrates the possibility that, where archaeological sequences are reasonably well-known, they might be tied into evidence of language diversification and thus produce absolute chronologies. Where there is evidence for migrations and expansions these can be explored through both disciplines to produce a richer interpretation of prehistory. An important part of this is the origin and spread of food production which can be modelled through the spread of both plants and words for them. Archaeology and Language II will be of interest to researchers in linguistics, archaeologists and anthropologists.