Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth

Abstract In traditional Polynesian societies, tattooing played a key role in the social construction of the person. This study is the first to provide a comparati...

Abstract The book presents the most wide-ranging treatment of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a group of more than 800 language...

Tonga and Sāmoa are adjacent archipelagoes on the west central flank of the Polynesian triangle. These were the first islands to be settled in Polynesia, and they ultimately became...

Divided into four parts, the field of material cultural studies focus on cultural studies with special reference to history, archaeology, and anthropology. This book celebrates a d...