The Quest For Origins - K.R. Howe
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Used Good, fading to spine and cover, spine creased, pages starting to tan
Paperback (med)
Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 18mm
Publication Date: 2003
WHO FIRST DISCOVERED AND SETTLED NEW ZEALAND AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS?
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 answer 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 linguistics findings about the origins of Pacific Islanders. Professor Howe also examines the two-hundred-year-old history of Western ideas about Polynesian origins in the context of ever-changing fads and intellectual fashions.
Kerry Howe
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