Prehistory in the Pacific islands : a study of variation in language, customs, and human biology /
Terrell, John,
Prehistory in the Pacific islands : a study of variation in language, customs, and human biology / John Terrell. - xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-287) and index.
"How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity."--Publisher description.
0521306043 9780521306041 0521369568 9780521369565
85007732
Prehistoric peoples--Oceania
Oceania--Languages--History.
Oceania--Anthropometry.
Oceania--Antiquities
GN871 / .T47 1986
990
Prehistory in the Pacific islands : a study of variation in language, customs, and human biology / John Terrell. - xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-287) and index.
"How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity."--Publisher description.
0521306043 9780521306041 0521369568 9780521369565
85007732
Prehistoric peoples--Oceania
Oceania--Languages--History.
Oceania--Anthropometry.
Oceania--Antiquities
GN871 / .T47 1986
990