Voyagers by Nicholas Thomas
Author:Nicholas Thomas [Thomas, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00
Pandanus plants near shoreline, Kwamera, Tanna, Vanuatu.
The Lapita peopleâs colonizing burst began suddenly and came to an end that was not necessarily sudden, but definite. Once they reached Fiji and western Polynesia, they settled the wide range of larger and smaller islands, from Viti Levu through the Tongan archipelago to Upolo and Savaiâi. They reached this region around 1000 BC, but communities and culture then developed across these relatively proximate island groups for nearly two thousand years before venturing farther.
This was the environment in which Polynesian culture assumed a distinct identity. âPolynesia,â as we saw earlier, was one of Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont dâUrvilleâs terms, an invention of nineteenth-century racial anthropology that was juxtaposed negatively with âMelanesiaâ for well over a century. But the fact that dâUrvilleâs theorization was an expression of its timeâindeed, of invidious colonial thoughtâdid not mean that it was entirely wrong. Whereas the French geographerâs other two regional and ethnic typesâMelanesian and Micronesianâdid not reflect ancestrally unified cultures or coherent traditions (let alone âracesâ), there were and are Polynesian peoples, cultures, and languages that have common origins.
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