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Author: Robert W. Williamson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-11-14
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1107625696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1937, this presents a detailed account of religious and mythical structures in Central Polynesia.
Author: Robert W. Williamson
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Wood Williamson
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 458
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Wood Williamson (1856-1932) was a British solicitor and anthropologist who worked extensively in New Guinea and Polynesia.
Author: 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: Robert W. Williamson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-16
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1107600731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1939 text examines whether the formation of a cohesive ethnology of Polynesia could be possible.
Author: Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-03-15
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780521788793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and comparative word lists. In this innovative book, Kirch and Green explicitly develop the theoretical underpinnings, as well as the particular methods, for such a historical anthropology. Drawing upon and integrating the approaches of archaeology, comparative ethnography, and historical linguistics, they advance a phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, and apply a triangulation method for historical reconstruction. They illustrate their approach through meticulous application to the history of the Polynesian cultures, and for the first time reconstruct in extensive detail the Ancestral Polynesian culture that flourished in the Polynesian homeland - Hawaiki - some 2,500 years ago. Of great significance for Oceanic studies, Kirch and Green's book will be essential reading for any anthropologist, prehistorian, linguist, or cultural historian concerned with the theory and method of long-term history.
Author: Various
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 5475
ISBN-13: 0429657935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis set collects together in 19 volumes a wealth of texts on Sociology of Religion. An invaluable reference resource, it contains classic books on a wide range of topics, including: religion and violence, religion and family life, religion and society, culture and class.
Author: C.K. Yang
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0520318382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.
Author: Joachim Wach
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-20
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 0429662939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1947, presents the then-new subject of sociology of religion in systematic and historical theology and in the science of religion, in political theory and the social sciences, in philosophy and psychology, in philology and anthropology. Its intention is to bridge the gulf between the study of religion and the social sciences, an exercise that draws strongly upon cultural anthropology.
Author: Robert Dean Craig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2004-10-25
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1576078957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible, concise reference source on Polynesia's complex mythology, product of a culture little known outside its home. Encounters with the West introduced Polynesian mythology to the world—and sealed its fate as a casualty of colonialism. But for centuries before the Europeans came, that mythology was as vast as the triangle of ocean in which it flourished, as diverse as the people it served, and as complex as the mythologies of Greece and Rome. Students, researchers, and enthusiasts can follow vivid retellings of stories of creation, death, and great voyages, tracking variations from island to island. They can use the book's reference section for information on major deities, heroes, elves, fairies, and recurring themes, as well as the mythic implications of everything from dogs and volcanoes to the hula, Easter Island, and tattooing (invented in the South Pacific and popularized by returning sailors).
