Pacific Prehistory & Ethnology Analogy
Anth. 2782 (CRN:35624)
|DATE AND TOPIC||READINGS|
Introduction to the course
|Bellwood, P.S. (1980) "The Peopling of the Pacific." Scientific American Nov. 1980:174- 185.|
Introduction to Pacific
|Film: The Navigators.|
Survey of Pacific Prehistory
M.A. and N.D. Sharp (1993) "Pleistocene Sites in
Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia: Geographic
and Temporal Structure of the Archeological Record."
In Sahul in Review, M.A. Smith, M. Spriggs and B.
Frankhauser, eds., pp. 37-59. Canberra: The Australian
Gosden, Chris (1993) "Understanding the Settlement of the Pacific Islands in the Pleistocene." In Sahul in Review, M.A. Smith, M. Spriggs and B. Frankhauser, eds., pp. 131-136. Canberra: The Australian National University.
Kirch, Patrick V. and R.C. Green (1987) "History, Phylogeny and Evolution in Polynesia." Current Anthropology 28:431-456.
Kirch, P.V. and M.I. Weisler (1994) "Archeology in the Pacific Islands: An Appraisal of Recent Research." Journal of Archeological Research 2:285-328.
Rainbird, Paul (1994) "Prehistory in the Northwest Tropical Pacific: The Caroline, Mariana and Marshall Islands." Journal of World Prehistory 8:293-349.
language and migrations
Peter (1995) "Austronesian Prehistory in Southeast
Asia: Homeland Expansion and Transformation." In The
Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives,
Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox and Darrell Tryon, eds., pp.
96-111. Canberra: The Australian National University.
Scaglion, Richard (1996) "Chiefly Models in Papua New Guinea." The Contemporary Pacific 8:1-30.
Pawley, Andrew and Malcolm Ross (1995) "The Prehistory of Oceanic Languages: A Current View." In The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox and Darrell Tryon, eds., pp. 39-74. Canberra: The Australian National University.
Human modification of the
Kirch, P. V., J. R. Flenley, D. W. Steadman, F. Lamont and S. Dawson (1992) "Ancient Environmental Degradation." National Geographic Research & Exploration 8:166-179.
Steadman, David W. (1995) "Prehistoric Extinctions of Pacific Island Birds: Biodiversity Meets Zooarchaeology." Science 267:1123-1131.
Scaglion, Richard (1994) "A Prehistoric Introduction of the Sweet Potato in New Guinea?" In Migration and Transformations: Regional Perspectives on New Guinea, A. Strathern and G. Stürzenhofecker (eds.), pp. 257-294. Pittsburgh: ASAO Monograph No. 15.
Paul B. (1989a) "The Pig and the Long Yam: The
Expansion of a Sepik Cultural Complex." Ethnology
Roscoe, Paul B. (1989b) "The Flight from the Fen: The Prehistoric Migrations of the Boiken of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Oceania 60:139-154.
Roscoe, Paul B. and Richard Scaglion (1990) "Male Initiation and European Intrusion in the Sepik: A Preliminary Analysis." In Sepik Heritage: Tradition and Change in Papua New Guinea, Nancy Lutkehaus et al., eds., pp. 414-423. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
|October 16||MIDTERM EXAM|
trade, exchange, and the
Lapita cultural complex.
Matthew (1995) "The Lapita Culture and Austronesian
Prehistory in Oceania." In The Austronesians:
Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Peter
Bellwood, James J. Fox and Darrell Tryon, eds., pp.
112-133. Canberra: The Australian National University.
Spriggs, Matthew (1990) "The Changing Face of Lapita: Transformation of a Design." In Lapita Design, Form and Composition, Matthew Spriggs, ed., pp. 83-122. Canberra: Occasional Papers in Prehistory, No. 19, Department of Prehistory, RSPAS, Australian National University.
Harding, Thomas (1994) "Precolonial New Guinea Trade." Ethnology 33:101-125.
Malinowski in the Massim.
|Young (1988). QUIZ|
The emergence of Mailu as a
|Irwin (1985). QUIZ|
The contributions of
prehistory and ethnography
|Saville (1926). QUIZ|
|November 20||AAA Meetings, no class|
|NOVEMBER 27||THANKSGIVING VACATION - NO CLASS|
Representations of the past,
the invention of tradition, and
the politics of "representation."
|DECEMBER 11||FINAL EXAM|
[Subject: Anthropology; Pacific/Comparative]
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