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Pages: 191
Authors: Martha C. Ward
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-10-21 - Publisher: Waveland Press

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During her first visit to the beautiful island of Pohnpei in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, anthropologist Martha Ward discovered people who grew quarter-ton
Island in the Stream
Language: en
Pages: 371
Authors: Michael Lambek
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel
Island of Anthropology
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Kirsten Hastrup
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Coronet Books

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This history of the anthropology of Iceland covers society from medieval times to current issues.
Islands of History
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Marshall Sahlins
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-06 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands—Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand—whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned
On the Road of the Winds
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Patrick Vinton Kirch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-15 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Providing a synthesis of archaeological and historical anthropological knowledge of the indigenous cultures of the Pacific islands, this text focuses on human e