Suchergebnisse

The Austronesians in History: Common Origins and Diverse Transformations --Section I.Origins and Dispersals --Proto-Austronesian and the Major Austronesian Subgroups --The Prehistory of Oceanic Languages: A Current View --Borneo as a Cross-Roads for Comparative Austronesian Linguistics --Austronesian Prehistory in Southeast Asia: Homeland, Expansion and Transformation --The Lapita Culture and Austronesian Prehistory in Oceania --The Austronesian Conquest of the Sea -- Upwind --Domesticated and Commensal Mammals of Austronesia and Their Histories --Section II.Transformations and Interactions --Homo Sapiens is an Evolving Species: Origins of the Austronesians --A Study of Genetic Distance and the Austronesian/Non-Austronesian Dichotomy --Language Contact and Change in Melanesia --Austronesian Societies and Their Transformations --Sea Nomads and Rainforest Hunter-Gatherers: Foraging Adaptations in the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago --Exchange Systems, Political Dynamics, and Colonial Transformations in Nineteenth Century Oceania --Indic Transformation: The Sanskritization of Jawa and the Javanization of the Bharata --Continuity and Change in the Austronesian Transition to Islam and Christianity --Christianity and Austronesian Transformations: Church, Polity and Culture in the Philippines and the Pacific.

Introduction /James J. Fox --Hierarchy, founder ideology and Austronesian expansion /Peter Bellwood --The elder and the younger -- foreign and autochthonous origin and hierarchy in the Cook Islands /Jukka Siikala --Rank, hierarchy and routes of migration: chieftainship in the central Caroline Islands of Micronesia /Ken-ichi Sudo --"All threads are white": Iban egalitarianism reconsidered /Clifford Sather --Origin, hierarchy and egalitarianism among the Mandaya of Southeast Mindanao, Philippines /Aram A. Yengoyan --The transformation of progenitor lines of origin: patterns of precedence in eastern Indonesia /James J. Fox --Origin structures and precedence in the social orders of Tana 'Ai and Sikka /E.D. Lewis --Precedence among the domains of the three hearth stones /Michael P. Vischer --The founding of the house and the source of life: two complementary origin structures in Buru society /Barbara Dix Grimes --Histories of diversity, hierarchies of unity: the politics of origins in a south-west Moluccan Village /Sandra Pannell --Rivals and wives: affinal politics and the Tongan ramage /Aletta Biersack --The politics of marriage and the marriage of polities in Gowa, South Sula Wesi, during the 16th and 17th centuries /F. David Bulbeck --The cultural construction of rank, identity and ethnic origins in the Sulu Archipelago /Charles O. Frake.