The Melanesian world. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Eric Hirsch and Will Rollason.
• Editors: Hirsch, Eric; Rollason, Will
• Contents: Cover; Half title; Series information; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Maps of the region and its language groups; Chapter one Introduction: The Challenge of Melanesia; Part I Historical context; Chapter two The archaeology of melanesia; First people of oceania; Routes into sahul; Sites and dates; A rapid expansion; Coastal adaptations; Interior adaptation; Changes in late pleistocene adaptations; The holocene -- the earth warms up; Beginning of agriculture; Holocene interactions Austronesian dispersals: remote oceania colonised for the first timeThe end of lapita: differences between remote and new oceania; Last 2, 000 years: island melanesia; Last 2, 000 years: mainland new guinea; The future of archaeology in the western pacific; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter three Melanesia: a region and a history; Colonial rule; Formal colonialism; Colonial commerce; The impact of colonialism; The pacific war; Decolonisation; Melanesia in history; Notes; References; Chapter four Missionaries in the melanesian world; Missionary organisation; The missionary encounter ConclusionNotes; References; Part II Geo-political, linguistic and regional overviews; Chapter five Geo-political overview of melanesia; Melanesian political systems; Independence movements in melanesia; West papua; New caledonia; Bougainville; Torres strait islands; Melanesia in the international community; Australia; France; Usa; China and taiwan; Conclusion; References; Chapter six Melanesia as a zone of language diversity; The languages; Language prehistory; Contact languages; English-based pidgins; Ways of speaking Multilingualism, code switching and social identity in contemporary melanesiaWhat lies ahead?; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter seven Regional overview: from diversity to multiple singularities; Social order and exchange; Diverse cosmologies of exchange; Exchange and the politics of difference; Open cultures; Forms of incorporation; Emerging singularities; New jerusalem in png; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; Note; References; Part III Economy and livelihood; Chapter eight Subsistence food production in melanesia; Introduction; A regional overview of food production; Papua new guinea Data sourcesMain sources of food; Import dependency; Population eating each major staple food and domestically traded food; Food availability; Stability of food supply; Changes in food consumption over time; West papua; Vanuatu; New caledonia; Torres strait islands; Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter nine Class, labour and consumption in urban melanesia; Introduction; Caste and class in colonial melanesia; Materialising difference; Education and social class; Conclusion; Note; References; Chapter ten Money schemes in contemporary melanesia; Melanesian popular economies
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 993; HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; Civilization; Manners and customs; Melanesia -- Civilization; Melanesia -- Social life and customs; Melanesia; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315529677; 9781315529691; 1315529696; 9781315529660; 1315529661; 9781315529684; 1315529688
• Related ISBNs: 131552967X; 9781138693715
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 3, 2019)
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