Prehistory in the Pacific islands

a study of variation in language,customs and human biology

Prehistory in the Pacific islands

a study of variation in language,customs and human biology

Terrel John E.


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How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity.
Ean / Isbn
978052136956
Pagine
316
Data pubblicazione
01/12/1990