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Title The Austronesians : historical and comparative perspectives / edited by Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox, and Darrell Tryon
Published Canberra : Dept. of Anthropology as part of the Comparative Austronesian Project, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1995

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Description viii, 359 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Series Comparative Austronesian series
Comparative Austronesian series
Contents Language content & change in Melanesia / Tom Dutton -- Austronesian societies & their transformations / James J. Fox -- Sea nomads & rainforest hunter-gatherers: foraging adaptations in the Indo-Malaysian archipelago / Clifford Sather -- Exchange systems, political dynamics & colonial transformations in nineteenth centure [i.e. century] Oceania / Nicholas Thomas -- Indic transformation: the Sanskritization of Jawa & the Javanization of the Bhārata / S. Supomo -- Continuity & change in the Austronesian transition to Islam & Christianity / Anthony Reid -- Christianity & Austronesian transformations: church, polity & culture in the Philippines & the Pacific / Aram A. Yengoyan
The Austronesians in history: common origins & diverse transformations / Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox, Darrell Tryon -- Proto-Austronesian & the major Austronesian subgroups / Darrell Tryon -- The prehistory of the Oceanic languages: a current view / Andrew Pawley, Malcolm Ross -- Borneo as a cross-roads for comparative Austronesian linguistics / K. Alexander Adelaar -- Austronesian prehistory in southeast Asia: homeland, expansion & transformation / Peter Bellwood -- The Lapita culture & Austronesian prehistory in Oceania / Matthew Spriggs -- The Austronesian conquest of the sea -- upwind / Adrian Horridge -- Domesticated & commensal mammals of Austronesia & their histories / Colin P. Groves -- Homo sapiens is an evolving species: origins of the Austronesians / S.W. Serjeantson, X. Gao -- A study of genetic distance & the Austronesian -- non-Austronesian dichotomy / Kuldeep Bhatia, Simon Easteal, Robert L. Kirk
Summary "The Austronesian-speaking populations 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. This volume is a publication of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies' Comparative Austronesian Project." -- Back cover
Notes Papers originally presented at a conference of the Comparative Austronesian Project
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Anthropology -- Southeast Asia.
Anthropology -- Islands of the Pacific.
Anthropology -- Madagascar.
Austronesian languages -- Congresses.
Austronesian languages.
Comparative civilization -- Congresses.
Prehistoric peoples -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses.
Prehistoric peoples -- Islands of the Pacific -- Congresses.
SUBJECT Asia, Southeastern -- Civilization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008628 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Asia, Southeastern -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008630
Asia, Southeastern -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117018
Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- Civilization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005029 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
Madagascar -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85079496
Madagascar -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115772
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Bellwood, Peter S.
Fox, James J., 1940-
Tryon, D. T. (Darrell T.)
Comparative Austronesian Project
LC no. 95236089
ISBN 0731515781 (cover)
0731521323