In this innovative book, Kirch and Green develop the theory and method of an anthropological approach to long-term history. Combining archaeology, comparative ethnography, and historical linguistics, they advance a phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, and apply a triangulation method for historical reconstruction. Through an analysis of the history of Polynesian cultures they present a first-time detailed reconstruction of Hawaiki, the Ancestral Polynesian culture that flourished some 2,500 years ago. This book will be essential reading for any anthropologist, prehistorian, linguist, or cultural historian concerned with the study of long-term history.
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"In all, this is a wonderful book for anyone interested in the origins of Polynesian societies. It is also an example of good, solid, culture history methodology at its best, with a nice admixture of ecology and theoretical issues." Journal Canadien D'Archéologie
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In this innovative book, Kirch and Green develop the theory and method of an anthropological approach to long-term history. Combining archaeology, comparative ethnography, and historical linguistics, they advance a phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, and apply a triangulation method for historical reconstruction. Through an analysis of the history of Polynesian cultures they present a first-time detailed reconstruction of Hawaiki, the Ancestral Polynesian culture that flourished some 2,500 years ago. This book will be essential reading for any anthropologist, prehistorian, linguist, or cultural historian concerned with the study of long-term history.
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Polynesians called it Hawaiki (or sometimes, Kahiki, or Pulotu), the distantly remembered homeland, source of their ancestors, mythical site of the creation of culture, and spirit realm to which their own souls would voyage after death. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
semantic history hypotheses, semantic history hypothesis, aga site, genetic comparative method, lunar month names, semantic reconstruction, lexical reconstruction, phylogenetic model, homologous change, linguistic subgrouping, phylogenetic unit, evolutionary archaeology, dialect chain, andesite line, homeland region, semantic agreement, direct historical approach, shared innovations, historical anthropology, ancestral node, historical anthropologists, daughter languages, triangulation method, semantic innovation, phylogenetic approach Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Proto Polynesian, Western Polynesia, Remote Oceania, New Zealand, Society Islands, Early Eastern Lapita, Polynesian Outliers, Cook Islands, Near Oceania, New Guinea, Rapa Nui, Polynesian Plainware, Nuclear Polynesian, Proto Central Pacific, Primordial Pair, Island Melanesia, New Caledonia, North America, Proto Austronesian, Proto Malayo-Polynesian, Santa Cruz, American Samoa, Easter Island, Gloss Source, Rediscovering Hawaiki Table New!
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Polynesians called it Hawaiki (or sometimes, Kahiki, or Pulotu), the distantly remembered homeland, source of their ancestors, mythical site of the creation of culture, and spirit realm to which their own souls would voyage after death. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
semantic history hypotheses, semantic history hypothesis, aga site, genetic comparative method, lunar month names, semantic reconstruction, lexical reconstruction, phylogenetic model, homologous change, linguistic subgrouping, phylogenetic unit, evolutionary archaeology, dialect chain, andesite line, homeland region, semantic agreement, direct historical approach, shared innovations, historical anthropology, ancestral node, historical anthropologists, daughter languages, triangulation method, semantic innovation, phylogenetic approach Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Proto Polynesian, Western Polynesia, Remote Oceania, New Zealand, Society Islands, Early Eastern Lapita, Polynesian Outliers, Cook Islands, Near Oceania, New Guinea, Rapa Nui, Polynesian Plainware, Nuclear Polynesian, Proto Central Pacific, Primordial Pair, Island Melanesia, New Caledonia, North America, Proto Austronesian, Proto Malayo-Polynesian, Santa Cruz, American Samoa, Easter Island, Gloss Source, Rediscovering Hawaiki Table New!
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- Developments in Polynesian Ethnology by Alan Howard on 6 pages
- The Prehistory of Polynesia by Jesse D. Jennings on 4 pages
- CLIO IN OCEANIA by Aletta Biersack on page 5, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Human Biology by British Museum in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Historical Ecology in the Pacific Islands: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change by Mr. Patrick V. Kirch in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology by Patrick Vinton Kirch in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
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