Peoples of the Pacific : the history of Oceania to 1870

D'Arcy, Paul. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780754662211 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0754662217 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
xcv, 453 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. xlvi-xcv) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. 1. Exploring and Colonising Oceania -- 1. The Birth of New Lands, After the Creation of Havai'i (Raiatea) / Teuira Henry -- 2. 'Expanding' the Target in Indigenous Navigation / David Lewis -- 3. Voyaging / Ben R. Finney -- 4. The Colonisation of the Pacific Plate: Chronological, Navigational and Social Issues / Geoffrey Irwin -- Pt. 2. Historical Dynamics of Island Societies -- 5. Man's Role in Modifying Tropical and Sub-Tropical Polynesian Ecosystems / P. V. Kirch -- 6. Man and the Sea in Early Tahiti: A Maritime Economy through European Eyes / Gordon R. Lewthwaite -- 7. The Ipomoean Revolution Revisited: Society and the Sweet Potato in the Upper Wahgi Valley / Jack Colson -- 8. The Value of Tradition in Polynesian Research / Te Rangi Hiroa -- 9. Understanding Polynesian Traditional History / Niel Gunson -- 10. Oral Traditions among the Binandere: Problems of Method in a Melanesian Society / John D. Waiko -- 11. Status Rivalry and Cultural Evolution in Polynesia / Irving Goldman -- 12. Chimbu Tribes: Political Organization in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea / Paula Brown -- 13. The War of Tonga and Samoa and Origin of the Name Malietoa / Samuel Ella -- 14. Exchange Patterns in Goods and Spouses: Fiji, Tonga and Samoa / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- 15. Kula: The Circulating Exchange of Valuables in the Archipelagoes of Eastern New Guinea / B. Malinowski -- 17. Yapese Politics, Yapese Money and the Sawei Tribute Network before World War I / M. L. Berg -- 16. The Place of Ulithi in the Yap Empire / William A. Lessa -- Pt. 3. Culture Contact -- 18. The Stranger-King or Dumezil among the Fijians / Marshall Sahlins -- 19. Institutions of Violence in the Marquesas / Greg Dening -- 20. European-Polynesian Encounters: A Critique of the Pearson Thesis / I. C. Campbell -- 21. From Conversion to Conquest: The Early Spanish Mission in the Marianas / Francis X. Hezel -- Pt. 4. Responses to Pre-Colonial European Influences -- 22. The Sandalwood Trade in Melanesian Economics, 1841-65 / Dorothy Shineberg -- 23. Firearms and Indigenous Warfare: A Case Study / K. R. Howe -- 24. Pacific Island Depopulation: Natural or Un-Natural History? / Donald Denoon -- 25. The Case of the Wesleyan Mission in Tonga / Sione Latukefu -- Pt. 5. The Pacific Past Revisited -- 26. Our Sea of Islands / Epeli Hau'ofa.