Ward .:. Man in the Pacific Islands

Ward, Gerard R. [ed.],
Man in the Pacific Islands. Essays on Geographical Change in the Pacific Islands. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. X, 339 Seiten mit Abbildungen, Literaturverzeichnis und Register. Pappband (gebunden) mit Schutzumschlag.

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Bestell-Nr.155169 | ISBN: 0-19-823210-1

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Ward | Ethnologie | Voelkerkunde | Geographie | Ozeanien | Pazifik

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These essays are concerned with aspects of the interrelated processes through which the life and landscapes of the Pacific Islands have been reshaped during two centuries of contact with the technological world.
A general view of the whole region is followed by a detailed study of a particular territory or island. The authors include an archaeologist, a botanist, three historians, and five geographers, and their contributions deal with the settlement of the islands, the impact of early trading, labour recruiting, mining, and the establishment of commercial agriculture. These and other influences have brought about changes in vegetation, land tenure, indigenous agriculture, population size, and composition and settlement forms.
All the authors base their contributions on original research and they provide a wide range of insights into the transformation of the Pacific Islands.

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CONTENTS
List of Maps and Figures vii
List of Contributors ix
Introduction

1. The Pacific Islands and their Prehistoric Inhabitants 5
J. GOLSON

2. The Alien and the Land of Oceania
BRYAN H. FARRELL

3. Vegetation and Man in the South-west Pacific and New Guinea R. G. ROBBINS 4. The Pacific Beche-de-mer Trade with Special Reference to Fiji
R. GERARD WARD

5. The Labour Trade
OWEN W. PARNABY

6. Trade and Plantations in Eastern Polynesia: The Emergence of a Dependent Economy
COLIN NEWBURY

7. The Makatea Phosphate Concession
COLIN NEWBURY

8. Population Growth in the Pacific Islands: The Example of Western Samoa
PETER PIRIE

9. Land Tenure in the South Pacific 219
R. G. CROCOMBE
10. Indigenous Horticulture in Melanesia: Some Recent Changes in Eastern New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the New Hebrides
DAVID A. M. LEA

11. Urbanization in the South Pacific [and] the Case of Noumea
W. D. McTAGGART

Index 329

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LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES
3.1 Induced grasslands and secondary forest, Territory of Papua and New Guinea 85 4.1 Biche-de-mer stations, Fiji, 1831-2 and 1834 103 4.2 Beche-de-mer stations and food purchases, Fiji, 1843-4 116 5.1 Pacific island labour movements to Fiji and Queensland 128 6.i Land use in Tahiti, 1877 156 7.1 Phosphate deposits and land blocks, Makatea, 1911 179 7.2 Land claims, northern Makatea, 1911 18o 8.i Population trends, 1830-1966 194 9.1 Atiu Island 236 9.2 Land divisions, Tengatangi district, Atiu 237 9.3 Land plots, Tengatangi district, Atiu, 1952 238 io.i Copra production, British Solomon Islands Protectorate and Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1968 259 10.2 Cocoa production, British Solomon Islands Protectorate and Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1968 259 10.3 Coffee and rubber production, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1968 260 10.4 Crop production, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1955-68 261 10.5 Value of exports, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1951-67 261 10.6 Value of exports, British Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1950-67 262 10.7 Value of exports, Condominium of the New Hebrides, 1951-67 262 10.8 Abelam regions and population distribution 264 ii. i Location and site of Noumea, New Caledonia 297 11.2 Noumea 298 11.3 Household densities, Noumea 323

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