Taking the Tapu

Journal of Pacific History

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 237-250

  Rainbird, Paul ^a  

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EID: 14844318712     PISSN: 00223344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0022334032000120558     Document Type: Article

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2. Bronwen Douglas, 'Seaborne ethnography and the natural history of man', Journal of Pacific Hitiory, 38 (2003), notes that prior to the 1760s an almost complete dearth of evidence regarding the Pacific in European circles limited the possibility of classifying the people of Oceania
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11. The presence of tapu in the region defined by Dumont d'Urville as Micronesia has been commented upon by many authors since (e.g. Karl Semper, The Palau Islands in the Pacific Ocean, trans. M. L. Berg (Agana 1982 [1873])
12. William Alkire, An Introduction to the Peoples and Cultures of Micronesia (2nd edn, Menlo Park 1977); and indeed was noted before Dumont d'Urville's 1832 paper
13. See Otto von Kotzebue, Voyage of Discovery in the South Sea, and to Behring's Straits: in search of a north-east passage, undertaken in theyears 1815, 16, 17, and 18, in the ship Riurik (London 1821)
14. It should be acknowledged that although Polynesian forms a subgroup of the Oceanic branch of Austronesian languages, this does not mean that the languages were completely mutually intelligible between members of the subgroup. There are approximately 30 closely related languages in Polynesia, according to Peter Bellwood, The Polynesians: prehistory of an island people (London 1987), 27
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34. there is no archaeological evidence for this although some physical anthropologists have continued to pursue this possibility, e.g. C.L. Brace, M.L. Brace, Y. Dodo, K.D. Hunt, W. R. Leonard, L. Yongi, S. Sangvichien, S. Xiang-qing, and Z. Zhcnbiao, 'Micronesians, Asians, Thais and relations: a craniofacial and odontomctric perspective', in R.L. Hunter-Anderson (ed.), 'Recent Advances in Micronesian Archaeology', Micronesica Supplement, 2 (1990), 323-18
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