Peoples of the Pacific

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Contents: Introduction Part 1 Exploring and Colonising Oceania: The birth of new lands, after the creation of Havai'i (Raiatea), Teuira Henry 'Expanding' the target in indigenous navigation, David Lewis Voyaging, Ben R. Finney The colonisation of the Pacific plate: chronological, navigational and social issues, Geoffrey Irwin. Part 2 Historical Dynamics of Island Societies: Ecological Adaptations: Man's role in modifying tropical and sub-tropical Polynesian ecosystems, P.V. Kirch Man and the sea in early Tahiti: a maritime economy through European eyes, Gordon R. Lewthwaite The Ipomoean revolution revisited: society and the sweet potato in the upper Waghi valley, Jack Golson Social and Political Evolution: The value of traditions in Polynesian research, Te Rangi Hiroa (P.H. Buck) Understanding Polynesian traditional history, Niel Gunson Oral traditions among the Binandere: problems of method in a Melanesian society, John D. Waiko Status rivalry and cultural evolution in Polynesia, Irving Goldman Chimbu tribes: political organization in the Eastern highlands of New Guinea, Paula Brown Regional Histories: The war of Tonga and Samoa and the origin of the name Malietoa, Samuel Ella (trans.) Exchange patterns in goods and spouses: Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, Adrienne L. Kaeppler Kula: the circulating exchange of valuables in the archipelagoes of Eastern New Guinea, B. Malinowski The place of Ulithi in the Yap empire, William A. Lessa Yapese politics, Yapese money and the Sawei tribute network before World War I, M.L. Berg. Part 3 Culture Contact: The stranger-king or DumA(c)zil among the Fijians, Marshall Sahlins Institutions of violence in the Marquesas, Greg Dening European-Polynesian encounters: a critique of the Pearson thesis, I.C. Campbell From conversion to conquest: the early Spanish mission in the Marianas, Francis X. Hezel. Part 4 Responses to Pre-Colonial European Influences: The sandalwood trade in Melanesian economics, 1841a 65, Dorothy Shineberg Firearms and indigenous warfare: a case study, K.R. Howe Pacific island depopulation: natural or un-natural history?, Donald Denoon The case of the Wesleyan mission in Tonga, Sione Latukefu. Part 5 The Pacific Past Revisited: Our sea of islands, Epeli Hau'ofa Index.