The island Melanesians / Matthew Spriggs
- Bib ID:
- 1573930
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Spriggs, Matthew
- Description:
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- Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1997
- xxv, 326 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0631167277 (acid-free paper)
- Series:
- Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Island Melanesian World
- 2. Early Settlement: 40,000 to 20,000 Years Ago
- 3. Settling In: 20,000 to 6000 Years Ago
- 4. The World Turned Upside Down: 6000 to 3000 Years Ago
- 5. Success and Failure of Lapita: 3000 to 2000 Years Ago
- 6. The Making of Traditional Island Melanesian Cultures: 2000 to 750 Years Ago
- 7. Canoes from the East: the Polynesian Connection
- 8. Ships from the West: Island Melanesians Encounter the Europeans
- 9. Custom and Continuity in Island Melanesian Cultures
- 10. An Island Melanesian Future?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-317) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1997
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