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Prehistory in the Pacific islands : a study of variation in language, customs, and human biology / John Terrell.

By:

Terrell, John [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986Description: xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0521306043
9780521306041
0521369568
9780521369565

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

990 19

LOC classification:

GN871 .T47 1986

Summary: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	990 TER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A354469B

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Previous	990 SCA A history of the Pacific Islands : passages through tropical time /	990 SMI An archaeology of West Polynesian prehistory /	990 SNO The people from the horizon : an illustrated history of the Europeans among the South Sea Islanders /	990 TER Prehistory in the Pacific islands : a study of variation in language, customs, and human biology /	990 VAS Vastly ingenious : the archaeology of Pacific material culture : in honour of Janet M. Davidson /	990.072 WOR Work in flux /	990.074 COO James Cook : gifts and treasures from the South Seas : the Cook/Forster Collection, Göttingen = Gaben und Schätze aus der Südsee : Die Göttinger Sammlung Cook/Forster /	Next

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.

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