[PDF] Words Of The Lagoon eBook

Author : Robert Earle Johannes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520039292

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Words of the Lagoon is an account of the pioneering work of a marine biologist to discover, test, and record the knowledge possessed by native fisherman of the Palau Islands of Micronesia. Words of the Lagoon is an account of the pioneering work of a marine biologist to discover, test, and record the knowledge possessed by native fisherman of the Palau Islands of Micronesia.

Author : Mary Cartwright
Publisher : First Concepts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 2021-01-13
Category : Board books
ISBN : 9781474982337

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This delightful book introduces very little children to over 150 everyday words. Elisa Ferro's bright and vibrant illustrations are full of things to spot and talk about, and bring this new vocabulary to life. Helps children to build their vocabulary and develop early reading skills. Encourages word and picture recognition. Quirky details to engage young readers.

Author : Armand Marie Leroi
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0143127985

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In The Lagoon, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle's science. He revisits Aristotle's writings and the places where he worked. He goes to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to see the creatures that Aristotle saw, where he saw them. He explores Aristotle's observations, his deep ideas, his inspired guesses--and the things he got wildly wrong. He shows how Aristotle's science is deeply intertwined with his philosophical system and reveals that he was not only the first biologist, but also one of the greatest.

Author : Paul D'Arcy
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0824846389

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Oceania is characterized by thousands of islands and archipelagoes amidst the vast expanse of the Pacific. Although it is one of the few truly oceanic habitats occupied permanently by humankind, surprisingly little research has been done on the maritime dimension of Pacific history. The People of the Sea attempts to fill this gap by combining neglected historical and scientific material to provide the first synthetic study of ocean-people interaction in the region from 1770 to 1870. It emphasizes Pacific Islanders' varied and evolving relationships with the sea during a crucial transitional era following sustained European contact. Countering the dominant paradigms of recent Pacific Islands' historiography, which tend to limit understanding of the sea's importance, this volume emphasizes the flux in the maritime environment and how it instilled an expectation and openness toward outside influences and the rapidity with which cultural change could occur in relations between various Islander groups. The author constructs an extended and detailed conceptual framework to examine the ways in which the sea has framed and shaped Islander societies. He looks closely at Islanders' diverse responses to their ocean environment, including the sea in daily life; sea travel and its infrastructure; maritime boundaries; protecting and contesting marine tenure; attitudes to unheralded seaborne arrivals; and conceptions of the world beyond the horizon and the willingness to voyage. He concludes by using this framework to reconsider the influence of the sea on historical processes in Oceania from 1770 to the present and discusses the implications of his findings for Pacific studies.

Author : Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1481440888

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"In Lagos, three total strangers are drawn to Bar Beach. A marine biologist, a rapper famous through-out Africa, and a troubled soldier are brought together when an alien ship lands in the ocean, causing a tidal wave that will transform them -- and change the world."-- Back cover of book.

Author : Ward Hunt Goodenough
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780871691415

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Three closely related languages are spoken in Truk State, Federated States of Micronesia: Trukese, Mortlockese, and Puluwatese. Trukese has by far the largest number of of speakers in the Truk state. Building on the dictionary by Samuel H. Elbert, published in 1947, this dictionary representes the Trukese language as it is spoken in the lagoon islands of Truk. It also includes an introduction which covers: the languages of Truk; the alphabet; the format of an entry; morphology; syntax; and bibliography. Maps and tables.

Author : Edvard Hviding
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824816643

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“This is perhaps the best monograph on how Pacific islanders relate to their marine resources since Robert Johannes’s Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Melanesia (1981), and it stands as a major contribution to the study of indigenous marine tenure systems that should be required reading for everyone concerned with the issue of allocating marine resources.” —American Anthropologist Pacific Islands Monograph Series No. 14 Published in association with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i