The island Melanesians
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The island Melanesians
（The peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific）
Blackwell, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-317) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The Island Melanesians is the first book to focus on the inhabitants of the chain of archipelagoes stretching east and southeast of the large island of New Guinea - the Bismarcks, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia (Kanaky). The story of these people begins with the first settlement of the region over 30,000 years ago and continues with their mixed hunter-horticultural economy, developed over the next 25,000 years. Then came the sudden irruption of new colonists bringing a fully agricultural economy and domestic animals some 3500 years ago. These colonists, ancestors too of the Fijians and the Polynesians, were almost certainly the first humans to settle the previously empty islands in the southern archipelagoes of Vanuatu and New Caledonia.The author describes how the Austronesian languages of the colonists were adopted throughout Island Melanesia, while their genes became submerged through inter-marriage. Island Melanesia, he shows, is the product both of these two social and economic systems and of the most recent colonists, the Europeans. The Island Melanesians is a pioneering interpretation of the cultural evolution of this broad region.
It analyses current social, political and environmental trends, highlights continuities and transformations, and it sets out the daunting challenges facing these varied and vibrant peoples as they enter the twenty-first century.
目次
List of Plates. List of Figures and Tables. Preface. 1. This Island Melanesian World. Introduction: An Archaeological View. Island Melanesian Language. The Island Melanesian People. A Lapita and Post-Lapita "Community of Culture". The Island Melanesian World. Conclusions. 2. Early Settlement: 40,000 to 20,000 Years Ago. Early Settlement in Island Melanesia: Who and When. Voyaging. Settlement and Subsistence Prior to 20,000 years ago. Early Settlement of Vanuatu and New Caledonia? 3. Settling In: 20,000 to 6000 Year Ago. Seal Level Changes. The Archaeological Sites. Cultural Changes. Economic Change: 20,000 to 6000 BP. Early Island Melanesians. 4. The World Turned Upside Down: 6000 to 3000 Years Ago. The Lapita Cultural Complex. Sites of the Immediately Pre-Lapita Period. The Argument for Continuity. The Agricultural Question. Lapita Discontinuities. The Origins of the Lapita Culture. A Lapita Language? A Lapita People?: The Evidence from Genetics. How Southeast Asian is Lapita? Lapita Social Organisation. The Structure of the Lapita Migration. Lapita Origins Revisited. 5. Success and Failure of Lapita: 3000 to 2000 Years Ago. The Bismarcks. The Solomons. Vanuatu. New Caledonia. Contemporary Non-Lapita Sites. The Micronesian Connection. The Lapita Legacy. 6. The Making of Traditional Island Melanesian Cultures: 2000 to 750 Years Ago. The End of Lapita. Investigating Alternatives. The Bismarcks. The Solomons. Vanuatu. New Caledonia. The Legacy of Polynesian Contact. 8. Ships from the West: Island Melanesians Encounter the Europeans. The Conquest of the Conquistadors, 1528-1606 AD. Fleeting Glimpses, 1616-1722 AD. The Major European 'Discoveries', 1767-1774. Final First Meetings, 1781-1850 AD. Legacies of Contact. 9. Custom and Continuity in Island Melanesian Cultures. The Impact on Population. Impact on Settlement Pattern. Subsistence Change. Environmental Degradation. Mobility. Challenges to Authority Structures. The Position of Women. Directions and Constraints from the Past. 10. An Island Melanesian Future? Index.
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