The Austronesians : historical and comparative perspectives /

The Austronesian-speaking population 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 popul...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Bellwood, Peter S. (Editor), Fox, James J., 1940- (Editor), Tryon, D. T. (Darrell T.) (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, [2006]
Subjects:	Austronesian languages > Congresses. Prehistoric peoples > Islands of the Pacific > Congresses. Prehistoric peoples > Southeast Asia > Congresses. Comparative civilization > Congresses. Austronesian languages. Civilization. Comparative civilization. Prehistoric peoples. Islands of the Pacific > Civilization > Congresses. Southeast Asia > Civilization > Congresses. Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific. Southeast Asia. Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings.
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Table of Contents:

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.