Author: John Macmillan BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chile
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
"Ethnology of Easter island compared and contrasted with that of Polynesia and Micronesia"--Bagnall.
The Riddle of the Pacific
Author: John Macmillan BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chile
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
"Ethnology of Easter island compared and contrasted with that of Polynesia and Micronesia"--Bagnall.
The Riddle of the Pacific
Author: John Macmillan BrownThe Riddle of the Pacific
Author: John Macmillan BrownPublisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
ISBN: 9780932813299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The video companion to Childress's book Extraterrestrial Archeology. It reveals shocking evidence that many of the planets and moons in our solar system are or have been inhabited. Childress examines evidence that NASA faked the Apollo Moon landings.
The Pacific Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Facing the Pacific
Author: Jeffrey A. GeigerPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824830660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the west—connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life. Facing the Pacific is the first study to offer a detailed look at the United States’ intense engagement with the myth of the South Seas just after the First World War, when, at home, a popular vogue for all things Polynesian seemed to echo the expansion of U.S. imperialist activities abroad. Jeffrey Geiger looks at a variety of texts that helped to invent a vision of Polynesia for U.S. audiences, focusing on a group of writers and filmmakers whose mutual fascination with the South Pacific drew them together—and would eventually drive some of them apart. Key figures discussed in this volume are Frederick O’Brien, author of the bestseller White Shadows in the South Seas; filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, who collaborated on Moana; director W. S. Van Dyke, who worked with Robert Flaherty on MGM’s adaptation of White Shadows; and Expressionist director F. W. Murnau, whose last film, Tabu, was co-directed with Flaherty.
Archaeological Perspectives on Conflict and Warfare in Australia and the Pacific
Author: Geoffrey ClarkPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760464899
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space – even reaching what he described as the gentle and benign southern ocean nations. This volume discusses archaeological evidence of conflict from those southern oceans, from Palau and Guam, to Australia, Vanuatu and Tonga, the Marquesas, Easter Island and New Zealand. The evidence for conflict and warfare encompasses defensive earthworks on Palau, fortifications on Tonga, and intricate pa sites in New Zealand. It reports evidence of reciprocal sacrifice to appease deities in several island nations, and skirmishes and smaller scale conflicts, including in Easter Island. This volume traces aspects of colonial-era conflict in Australia and frontier battles in Vanuatu, and discusses depictions of World War II materiel in the rock art of Arnhem Land. Among the causes and motives discussed in these papers are pressure on resources, the ebb and flow of significant climate events, and the significant association of conflict with culture contact. The volume, necessarily selective, eclectic and wide-ranging, includes an incisive introduction that situates the evidence persuasively in the broader scholarship addressing the history of human warfare.
The Nation and Athenæum
Author: The Pacific
Author: Percy Thomas EthertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Mining in the Pacific States of North America
Author: John Shertzer HittellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Quest for Origins
Author: K. R. HowePublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824827502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Did they come from space, from Egypt, from the Americas? From other ancient civilizations? These are some of today's most fanciful claims about the first settlers of the islands of the Pacific. But none of them correctly answer the question: Where did the Polynesians come from? This book is a thoughtful and devastating critique of such "new" learning, and a careful and accessible survey of modern archaeological, anthropological, genetic, and linguistics findings about the origins of Pacific Islanders. Professor Howe also examines the two-hundred-year-old history of Western ideas about Polynesian origins in the context of ever-changing fads and intellectual fashions.