The Austronesians : historical and comparative perspectives / edited by Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox and Darrell Tryon.
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 popul...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Canberra, ACT :
ANU E Press,
[2006]
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| Series: | Occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| 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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| Item Description: | 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. Papers originally presented at a conference of the Comparative Austronesian Project. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1920942858 9781920942854 0731521323 9780731521326 |