Author: Edward Smith Craighill Handy
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Author: Edward Smith Craighill Handy
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282459338
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Excerpt from The Native Culture in the Marquesas The inhabitants of the Marquesas Islands number today about eighteen hundred, including a handful of whites, and many mixed bloods - for the most part white and Chinese mixtures with the native. Although, accord ing to the reports of early visitors, the natives of these islands were the finest physical specimens in the Pacific in the early days, very few of them today may be classified even as examples of good physique. Exceed ingly few are physically sound or free from serious disease of some kind. The whites have brought, and still bring, syphilis, gonorrhea, a type of rapid consumption called by the natives pakoko, influenza, and many other minor ailments. Smallpox at one time ravaged two of the northern islands and the Chinese brought leprosy. Degeneration of the native physique is due to these diseases against which the natives have been in no way pro tected; to liquors, drugs, and tobacco; and to an inactive, listless life with decay of native standards resulting in the breaking down of their whole system of life and thought and the elimination of all their natural avenues for expression - a conditions that has been brought about largely by the organized and unorganized forces of white influence. The near disappearance of this people has been and is due to lack of comprehension on the part of whites of all the nations in contact with them; to abuse that the alutruism of a few conscientious missionaries has been totally unable to counterbalance, and to the trait in the native character which leads to uncontrolled abandonment to sensory indulgence. (see pi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Edward Smith Craighill Handy
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ISBN: 9789332886582
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Author: Edward Smith Craighil Handy
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Author: EDWARD SMITH CRAIGHILL. HANDY
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ISBN: 9781033371237
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Paul Herman Buck
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Ralph Linton
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Edwin N. Ferdon
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816550964
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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The Marquesas Islands of the South Pacific have been inhabited by Polynesian peoples since around A.D. 300 but were not visited by Europeans until 1595. Ferdon has drawn on the records of these early visitors to paint a broad picture of Marquesan social organization, religion, material culture, and daily life.

Author: Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824843444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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Even before Western contact, the Pacific Islanders inhabited nearly every island north and east of Australia - a thousand distinctive peoples. This overview of the cultures of the Pacific Islands treats their physical setting, prehistory, activities, and social relations before European influences subjected them to radical changes. It is intended mainly for college-level students in courses dealing with the region, but Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands will also be enjoyed by those interested in the Pacific Islands and by visitors to the Pacific. The book is an abridgement of the author’s larger, two-volume work, Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands. Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands contains a number of maps and illustrations from the larger work.

Author: Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
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Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 780

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Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.