Description

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 populations focusing on their common origins and historical transformations. The papers examine current ideas on the linguistics, prehistory, anthropology and recorded history of the Austronesians. This volume is a publication of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies’ Comparative Austronesian Project.

Details

ISBN (print):

9780731521326

ISBN (online):

9781920942854

Publication date:

Sep 2006

Imprint:

ANU Press

DOI:

http://doi.org/10.22459/A.09.2006

Series:

Comparative Austronesian Series

Disciplines:

Arts & Humanities:Cultural Studies,History,Linguistics,Philosophy & Religion;Social Sciences:Anthropology

Countries:

Pacific:Papua New Guinea;Southeast Asia:Malaysia,Philippines

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• Preliminary Pages (PDF, 209KB)
• Acknowledgements (PDF, 89KB)

1. The Austronesians in History: Common Origins and Diverse Transformations (PDF, 204KB) –Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox and Darrell Tryondoi

Section I. Origins and Dispersals

2. Proto-Austronesian and the Major Austronesian Subgroups (PDF, 309KB) –Darrell Tryondoi
3. The Prehistory of Oceanic Languages: A Current View (PDF, 843KB) –Andrew Pawley and Malcolm Rossdoi
4. Borneo as a Cross-Roads for Comparative Austronesian Linguistics (PDF, 331KB) –K. Alexander Adelaardoi
5. Austronesian Prehistory in Southeast Asia: Homeland, Expansion and Transformation (PDF, 389KB) –Peter Bellwooddoi
6. The Lapita Culture and Austronesian Prehistory in Oceania (PDF, 305KB) –Matthew Spriggsdoi
7. The Austronesian Conquest of the Sea — Upwind (PDF, 241KB) –Adrian Horridgedoi
8. Domesticated and Commensal Mammals of Austronesia and Their Histories (PDF, 232KB) –Colin P. Grovesdoi

Section II. Transformations and Interactions

9. Homo Sapiens is an Evolving Species: Origins of the Austronesians (PDF, 250KB) –S. W. Serjeantson and X. Gaodoi
10. A Study of Genetic Distance and the Austronesian/Non-Austronesian Dichotomy (PDF, 169KB) –Kuldeep Bhatia, Simon Easteal and Robert L. Kirkdoi
11. Language Contact and Change in Melanesia (PDF, 209KB) –Tom Duttondoi
12. Austronesian Societies and Their Transformations (PDF, 168KB) –James J. Foxdoi
13. Sea Nomads and Rainforest Hunter-Gatherers: Foraging Adaptations in the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (PDF, 285KB) –Clifford Satherdoi
14. Exchange Systems, Political Dynamics, and Colonial Transformations in Nineteenth Century Oceania (PDF, 228KB) –Nicholas Thomasdoi
15. Indic Transformation: The Sanskritization ofJawa and the Javanization of theBharata (PDF, 221KB) –S. Supomodoi
16. Continuity and Change in the Austronesian Transition to Islam and Christianity (PDF, 178KB) –Anthony Reiddoi
17. Christianity and Austronesian Transformations: Church, Polity and Culture in the Philippines and the Pacific (PDF, 164KB) –Aram A. Yengoyandoi

• Contributors (PDF, 82KB)