| Description |
1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations |
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Occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University |
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Occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University.
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| Contents |
The Austronesians in History: Common Origins and Diverse Transformations -- Section I. Origins and Dispersals -- Proto-Austronesian and the Major Austronesian Subgroups -- The Prehistory of Oceanic Languages: A Current View -- Borneo as a Cross-Roads for Comparative Austronesian Linguistics -- Austronesian Prehistory in Southeast Asia: Homeland, Expansion and Transformation -- The Lapita Culture and Austronesian Prehistory in Oceania -- The Austronesian Conquest of the Sea -- Upwind -- Domesticated and Commensal Mammals of Austronesia and Their Histories -- Section II. Transformations and Interactions -- Homo Sapiens is an Evolving Species: Origins of the Austronesians -- A Study of Genetic Distance and the Austronesian/Non-Austronesian Dichotomy -- Language Contact and Change in Melanesia -- Austronesian Societies and Their Transformations -- Sea Nomads and Rainforest Hunter-Gatherers: Foraging Adaptations in the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago -- Exchange Systems, Political Dynamics, and Colonial Transformations in Nineteenth Century Oceania -- Indic Transformation: The Sanskritization of Jawa and the Javanization of the Bharata -- Continuity and Change in the Austronesian Transition to Islam and Christianity -- Christianity and Austronesian Transformations: Church, Polity and Culture in the Philippines and the Pacific |
| Summary |
The Austronesian-speaking population of the world are estimated to number more than 270 million people, living in a broad swathe around half the globe, from Madagascar to Easter Island and from Taiwan to New Zealand. The seventeen papers in this volume provide a general survey of these diverse populations focusing on their common origins and historical transformations. The papers examine current ideas on the linguistics, prehistory, anthropology and recorded history of the Austronesians |
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Anthropology |
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Archeology |
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Social life |
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Customs |
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History |
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Asia |
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Madagascar |
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Islands of the pacific |
| Notes |
Previously published in Australia by the Department of Anthropology in association with the Comparative Austronesian Project, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, Canberra 1995 |
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Papers originally presented at a conference of the Comparative Austronesian Project |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Austronesian languages -- Congresses
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Prehistoric peoples -- Islands of the Pacific -- Congresses
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Prehistoric peoples -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses
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Comparative civilization -- Congresses
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History.
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Humanities.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Sociology and anthropology.
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History.
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Austronesian languages
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Civilization
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Comparative civilization
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Prehistoric peoples
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| SUBJECT |
Islands of the Pacific -- Civilization -- Congresses
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Southeast Asia -- Civilization -- Congresses
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| Subject |
Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific
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Southeast Asia
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bellwood, Peter S., editor
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Fox, James J., 1940- editor.
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Tryon, D. T. (Darrell T.), editor.
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Australian National University. Comparative Austronesian Project, issuing body.
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| ISBN |
1920942858 |
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9781920942854 |
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