| Description |
1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations |
| Note |
Previously published in Australia by the Department of Anthropology in association with the Comparative Austronesian Project, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, Canberra 1995. |
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Papers originally presented at a conference of the Comparative Austronesian Project. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Austronesians in History: Common Origins and Diverse Transformations -- Section I. Origins and Dispersals -- Proto-Austronesian and the Major Austronesian Subgroups -- The Prehistory of Oceanic Languages: A Current View -- Borneo as a Cross-Roads for Comparative Austronesian Linguistics -- Austronesian Prehistory in Southeast Asia: Homeland, Expansion and Transformation -- The Lapita Culture and Austronesian Prehistory in Oceania -- The Austronesian Conquest of the Sea -- Upwind -- Domesticated and Commensal Mammals of Austronesia and Their Histories -- Section II. Transformations and Interactions -- Homo Sapiens is an Evolving Species: Origins of the Austronesians -- A Study of Genetic Distance and the Austronesian/Non-Austronesian Dichotomy -- Language Contact and Change in Melanesia -- Austronesian Societies and Their Transformations -- Sea Nomads and Rainforest Hunter-Gatherers: Foraging Adaptations in the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago -- Exchange Systems, Political Dynamics, and Colonial Transformations in Nineteenth Century Oceania -- Indic Transformation: The Sanskritization of Jawa and the Javanization of the Bharata -- Continuity and Change in the Austronesian Transition to Islam and Christianity -- Christianity and Austronesian Transformations: Church, Polity and Culture in the Philippines and the Pacific. |
| Summary |
The Austronesian-speaking population of the world are estimated to number more than 270 million people, living in a broad swathe around half the globe, from Madagascar to Easter Island and from Taiwan to New Zealand. The seventeen papers in this volume provide a general survey of these diverse populations focusing on their common origins and historical transformations. The papers examine current ideas on the linguistics, prehistory, anthropology and recorded history of the Austronesians. |
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Print version record. |
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Austronesian languages -- Congresses.
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Prehistoric peoples -- Islands of the Pacific -- Congresses.
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Prehistoric peoples -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses.
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Islands of the Pacific -- Civilization -- Congresses.
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Southeast Asia -- Civilization -- Congresses.
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Comparative civilization -- Congresses.
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Austronesian languages. (OCoLC)fst00821614
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Comparative civilization. (OCoLC)fst00871321
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Prehistoric peoples. (OCoLC)fst01075242
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Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific.
(OCoLC)fst01244201
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Southeast Asia. (OCoLC)fst01240499
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
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| Added Author |
Bellwood, Peter S., editor.
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Fox, James J., 1940- editor.
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Tryon, D. T. (Darrell T.), editor.
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Australian National University. Comparative Austronesian Project, issuing body.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Austronesians. Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, [2006] (OCoLC)874566673 |
| ISBN |
9781920942854 (electronic book) |
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1920942858 (electronic book) |
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9780731521326 (print) |
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0731521323 (print) |
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