How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity.
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"...a very useful and enlightening book. Its scope extends far beyond the limits of Polynesian and prehistoric research." Anthropologica
"...a stimulating and critical assessment of the history of the Pacific islands." New Scientist
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The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the surface of the earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
least isolated situation, human biogeography, ecological crunches, growing human numbers, vacant islands, language prehistory, language divergence, coastal pattern, inherited rank, ancient voyagers, pottery sherds, slit gongs, anthropological genetics, language borrowing, geographic systems, island colonization, prehistoric groups, hierarchic systems, speech traditions, descriptive variables, double canoes, haplotype frequencies, chance models, islands languages, human colonization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, New Ireland, Near Oceania, Bismarck Archipelago, New Zealand, Black Spot, Remote Oceania, New Caledonia, New Britain, Douglas Oliver, Sir Peter Buck, Fishing Expedition Model, Paubake Survey Area, Andrew Sharp, Buin Plain, John Adams, Richard Thurnwald, South America, Field Museum of Natural History, George Grace, James Bay, Prince Henry, Stephen Black, World War, Central Place Theory New!
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The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the surface of the earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
least isolated situation, human biogeography, ecological crunches, growing human numbers, vacant islands, language prehistory, language divergence, coastal pattern, inherited rank, ancient voyagers, pottery sherds, slit gongs, anthropological genetics, language borrowing, geographic systems, island colonization, prehistoric groups, hierarchic systems, speech traditions, descriptive variables, double canoes, haplotype frequencies, chance models, islands languages, human colonization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, New Ireland, Near Oceania, Bismarck Archipelago, New Zealand, Black Spot, Remote Oceania, New Caledonia, New Britain, Douglas Oliver, Sir Peter Buck, Fishing Expedition Model, Paubake Survey Area, Andrew Sharp, Buin Plain, John Adams, Richard Thurnwald, South America, Field Museum of Natural History, George Grace, James Bay, Prince Henry, Stephen Black, World War, Central Place Theory New!
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- Linguistics in Oceania (Current Trends in Linguistics, Vol. 8) by Thomas A. Sebeok on 4 pages
- New Guinea (World's Wild Places) by Roy D. Mackay in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Pacific islanders (Peoples of the world series) by W. W Howells on page 27, page 133, and Back Matter
- New Caledonia: Essays in Nationalism and Dependency by Michael Spencer on page 78, and page 116
- Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics by Richard F. Johnston in Back Matter
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- Archaeology, Language, and History: Essays on Culture and Ethnicity (Scientific Archaeology for the Third Millennium) by John Edward Terrell on page 124, page 198, and page 219
- Transition to Modernity: Essays on Power, Wealth and Belief by John A. Hall on page 62, and page 65
- An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades by Cyprian Broodbank on page 1, and Back Matter
- Molecular Biology and Human Diversity (Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series) by Anthony J. Boyce on page 10, and page 195
- A History of the Pacific Islands by Steven Roger Fischer on page 286, and Back Matter
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