Archaeology of Micronesia

Informationen zum Autor Paul Rainbird is a Lecturer in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork in the Pacific Islands, Australia and Europe. He co-edited Interrogating Pedagogies: Archaeology in Higher Education (2001). Klappentext Was the first book-length archaeological study of Micronesia. Zusammenfassung In this archaeological study of Micronesia! Paul Rainbird surveys the development of the islands beginning with the earliest process of human colonisation and places this development within the broader context of Pacific Island studies. The book draws on a wide range of archaeological! anthropological and historical sources. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Micronesian/macrofusion; 2. Micronesians: the people in history and anthropology; 3. Fluid boundaries: horizons of the local, colonial and disciplinary; 4. Settling the seascape: fusing islands and people; 5. Identifying difference: the Mariana Islands; 6. A sea of islands: Palau, Yap and the Carolinian Atolls; 7. 'How the past speaks here!': The Eastern Caroline Islands; 8. Islands and beaches: the atoll groups and outliers; 9. The tropical northwest Pacific in context.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Rainbird, Paul (University of Wales Rainbird
• Assisted by: Susan Alcock (Editor), Norman Yoffee (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.06.2004
• EAN: 9780521651882
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65188-2
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Cambridge World Archaeology (H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)