Voyagers
The Settlement of the Pacific
From an award-winning scholar, the extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. Thousands of islands, inhabited by a multitude of different peoples, are scattered across the vastness of the Pacific. The first European explorers to visit Oceania, from the sixteenth century on, were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving so many miles from the nearest continents. Who were these people? Where did they come from? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such immense tracts of ocean?In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migra…
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- ISBN: 978-1-83893-049-3
- EAN: 9781838930493
- Produktnummer: 33615872
- Verlag: Head of Zeus
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 228 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 31'260 KB
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Nick Thomas is an Australian anthropologist, who was co-curator of the Royal Academy exhibition Oceania (2018). He is Professor of Historical Anthropology, and Director Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, since 2006, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, since 2007. He was awarded the 2010 Wolfson History Prize for Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire.
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