Ancient Tahiti
Author: Teuira Henry
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 684
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Author: Teuira Henry
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 684
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2019-09-30
Total Pages: 1432
ISBN-13: 0824884531
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Tahiti is far famed yet too little known.” Thus wrote J. M. Orsmond in 1848, and the same assertion can be made in 1972. Thousands of pages had been published about Tahiti and its neighboring islands when Orsmond uttered his judgment, and tens of thousands have been published since that time, but a unified, comprehensive, and detailed description of the pre-European ways of life of the inhabitants of those Islands is yet to appear in print. The present work, lengthy as it is, makes no such claim to comprehensiveness; rather, it is concerned mainly with the social relations of those inhabitants, and it serves up only enough about their technology, their religion, their aesthetic expressions, and so forth to place descriptions of their social relations in context and render them more comprehensible. Volumes 1 and 2 of this work are a reconstruction of the Islanders’ way of life as it was believed to have been just before it began to be transformed by European influence—a period labeled the Late Indigenous Era. Volume 3 covers events in Tahiti and Mo‘orea from about 1767 to 1815—a period labeled the Early European Era.
Author: Teuira Henry
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 651
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 651
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C.W. Newbury
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1317028716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the wake of the navigators who finally opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the 19th century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and the calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave the merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants. Among the pioneers was Welshman John Davies (1772-1855) who spent just over 50 years of his life on Tahiti and neighbouring islands. He witnessed the rise of the Pomare dynasty, conversion to Christianity, reaction to attempts at theocratic government, and the gradual encroachment of alien commerce and European rule. His colleagues have made their contribution to the history and anthropology of Polynesia. Davies himself, teacher, linguist and careful observer, wrote his own story of the Mission, its personalities and their contact with the Polynesians, from the early phase of disillusionment through three decades of political and economic change, destruction and reconstruction. From this contact there emerged the uneasy compromise of missionary and indigenous beliefs and institutions that characterized Tahiti and its neighbours before and after the advent of French administration. Davies's manuscript History is here edited and annotated, supplemented by the writings of other missionaries and presented as a contribution to the literature of the Pacific. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1961.
Author: Andrew Sharp
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Douglas L. Oliver
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 586
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clare Coleman
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1497621909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the third volume of the Ancient Tahiti series, Tepua returns to her heart's home only to discover that a stranger has come, overthrowing traditions and deposing the high chief. All who would oppose him have been driven away or killed and war has found a home in Tahiti. Tepua, though, is carrying the seed of a new beginning, a child she has been forbidden to bear—and she will do whatever she must to protect the child and the future of her people. Child of the Dawn is a must-read for fans of Jean M. Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear, Linda Lay Shuler's She Who Remembers, and other novels set among pre-historic cultures.
Author: Teuira HENRY
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 651
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