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Music, Lapita, and the Problem of Polynesian Origins

Music, Lapita, and the Problem of Polynesian Origins PDF Author: Mervyn McLean
Publisher: Mervyn McLean
ISBN: 0473288737
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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Book Description
For more than twenty years the standard view among anthropologists has been that Polynesians evolved from a group of settlers known as Lapita people whose characteristically dentate-stamped pottery has been found on numerous mostly Melanesian sites, and who entered Fiji more than 3000 years ago from a starting point in the Bismarck Archipelago. An alternative view that champions Micronesia as a primary area of origin for Polynesians has been in limbo as a result of the prevailing theory, but is reappraised in the present book and found once again to be in contention. The book takes an historical view of theories of origin, and provides some account of methodologies used by scholarly disciplines which have been brought to bear on the subject, including evidence from music and dance, which forms the core of the book.