Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology

by Patrick Vinton Kirch and Roger C. Green

Book Overview

In this innovative book, Kirch and Green develop the theory and method of an anthropological approach to long-term history. Combining archaeology, comparative ethnography, and historical linguistics, they advance a phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, and apply a triangulation method for historical reconstruction. Through an analysis of the history of Polynesian cultures they present a first-time detailed reconstruction of Hawaiki, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052178879X
• ISBN13: 9780521788793
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.7"