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Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled the Pacific Islands? - Tapa blanda

Howe, K. R.

 
9780824827502: Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled the Pacific Islands?
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ISBN 10: 0824827503 ISBN 13: 9780824827502
Editorial: University of Hawaii Press, 2003

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

Editor: Howe, K. R.;
K. R. Howe is professor of history at Massey University, Auckland.

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Editorial
University of Hawaii Press
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0824827503
ISBN 13 
9780824827502
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
240
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