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Music, Lapita, and the Problem of Polynesian Origins

Mervyn McLean
Music, Lapita, and the Problem of Polynesian Origins by Mervyn McLean PDF

Author : Mervyn McLean
Publisher : Mervyn McLean
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0473288737

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For more than twenty years the standard view among anthropologists has been that Polynesians evolved from a group of settlers known as Lapita people whose characteristically dentate-stamped pottery has been found on numerous mostly Melanesian sites, and who entered Fiji more than 3000 years ago from a starting point in the Bismarck Archipelago. An alternative view that champions Micronesia as a primary area of origin for Polynesians has been in limbo as a result of the prevailing theory, but is reappraised in the present book and found once again to be in contention. The book takes an historical view of theories of origin, and provides some account of methodologies used by scholarly disciplines which have been brought to bear on the subject, including evidence from music and dance, which forms the core of the book.

New Guinea & Polynesia

John Moresby
New Guinea & Polynesia by John Moresby PDF

Author : John Moresby
Publisher : London : J. Murray
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 1876
Category : D'Entrecasteaux Islands
ISBN :

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Prehistory in the Pacific Islands

John Terrell
Prehistory in the Pacific Islands by John Terrell PDF

Author : John Terrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 27,33 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521369565

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How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity.