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Author : Paul Rainbird
Release : 2004-06-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Micronesia by : Paul Rainbird
Download or read book The Archaeology of Micronesia written by Paul Rainbird. This book was released on 2004-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Paul Rainbird
Release : 2007-07-09
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Islands by : Paul Rainbird
Download or read book The Archaeology of Islands written by Paul Rainbird. This book was released on 2007-07-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists have traditionally considered islands as distinct physical and social entities. In this book, Paul Rainbird discusses the historical construction of this characterization and questions the basis for such an understanding of island archaeology. Through a series of case studies of prehistoric archaeology in the Mediterranean, Pacific, Baltic, and Atlantic seas and oceans, he argues for a decentering of the land in favor of an emphasis on the archaeology of the sea and, ultimately, a new perspective on the making of maritime communities. The archaeology of islands is thus unshackled from approaches that highlight boundedness and isolation, and replaced with a new set of principles - that boundaries are fuzzy, islanders are distinctive in their expectation of contacts with people from over the seas, and that island life can tell us much about maritime communities. Debating islands, thus, brings to the fore issues of identity and community and a concern with Western construction of other peoples.
Author : Peter Sherwood Chapman
Release : 1964
Genre : Archaeology
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Book Synopsis Micronesian Archaeology by : Peter Sherwood Chapman
Download or read book Micronesian Archaeology written by Peter Sherwood Chapman. This book was released on 1964. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emilie G. Johnston
Release : 1982
Genre : Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Book Synopsis A Bibliography of Archaeology in Micronesia and Related Subjects by : Emilie G. Johnston
Download or read book A Bibliography of Archaeology in Micronesia and Related Subjects written by Emilie G. Johnston. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Release : 2008-03-27
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia by : Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Download or read book The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia written by Adrienne L. Kaeppler. This book was released on 2008-03-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than one hundred illustrations--most in full color--this volume offers a stimulating and insightful account of two dynamic artistic cultures, traditions that have had a considerable impact on modern western art through the influence of artists such as Gauguin. After an introduction to Polynesian and Micronesian art separately, the book focuses on the artistic types, styles, and concepts shared by the two island groups, thereby placing each in its wider cultural context. From the textiles of Tonga to the canoes of Tahiti, Adrienne Kaeppler sheds light on religious and sacred rituals and objects, carving, architecture, tattooing, and much more.
