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The quest for origins : who first discovered and settled New Zealand and the Pacific islands? / K. R. Howe.
- Title
- The quest for origins : who first discovered and settled New Zealand and the Pacific islands? / K. R. Howe.
- Author
- Howe, K. R.
- Publication
- Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 2008.
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- Description
- 239 p. : ill., maps; 20 cm.
- Summary
- 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 answers 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 linguistic findings about the origins of Pacific Islanders.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-227) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Contexts of inquiry -- 2. Some 'mainstream' ideas: 1760s-1860s -- 3. Some 'Mainstream' Ideas: 1860s-1940s -- 4. Current ideas: when and where? -- 5. Current ideas: how? -- 6. Alternative ideas -- 7. 'New' Learning: or old learning? -- 8. Maori origins: creating New Zealand prehistory.
- ISBN
- 9780143008453 (pbk.)
- 0143008455 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 190871498
- SCSB-12497239
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library