The Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled the Pacific Islands?

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.

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EAN: 9780824827502

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Book Title: The Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Se

Number of Pages: 235 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Quest for Origins : Who First Discovered and Settled the Pacific Islands?

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Subject: World, Australia & New Zealand, Oceania

Publication Year: 2003

Item Height: 0.7 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 9.6 Oz

Item Length: 7.8 in

Subject Area: History

Author: K. R. Howe

Item Width: 5 in

Format: Trade Paperback