| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 518 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Contending approaches / Jocelyn Linnekin -- Human settlement / Donald Denoon -- Pacific Edens?: myths and realities of primitive affluence / Donald Denoon -- Discovering outsiders / Malama Meleisea, Penelope Schoeffel -- Land, labour, and independent development / Donald Denoon -- New political orders / Jocelyn Linnekin -- New economic orders: land, labour, and dependency / Donald Denoon -- The war in the Pacific / Stewart Firth -- A nuclear Pacific / Stewart Firth, Karin von Strokirch -- The material world remade / Karen Nero -- The ideological world remade / Jocelyn Linnekin -- The end of insularity / Karen Nero |
| Summary |
Looks at the experiences of Pacific islanders from their first settlement of the islands to the present day. Addresses the question of insularity and explores islanders' experiences thematically, covering such topics as early settlement, contact with Europeans, colonialism, politics, commerce, nuclear testing, tradition, ideology, and the role of women. Incorporates material on the Maori, the Irianese in western New Guinea, the settled immigrant communities in Fiji, New Caledonia and the Hawaiian monarchy and follows migrants to New Zealand, Australia and North America. Looks at the view that the Pacific Islands can be seen to be linked by commerce, Christianity, colonialism, world wars and the nuclear experience. Also examines the way that they can be seen as isolated societies, as they have often been represented by Western explorers and anthropologists |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-493) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Pacific Islanders.
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Ethnology -- Oceania.
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Ethnology
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Pacific Islanders
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Ethnologie -- Océanie.
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Océaniens.
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Autochtones -- Pacifique (océan) -- îles du.
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HISTORY.
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OCEANIA.
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Oceania -- History
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Oceania
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Oceanië.
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Océanie -- Moeurs et coutumes.
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Océanie -- Histoire.
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Electronic books
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Reference works
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History
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Reference works.
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Ouvrages de référence.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Denoon, Donald
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| ISBN |
9780511468582 |
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051146858X |
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9781139055574 |
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1139055577 |
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9781139055574 |
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