Culture Contact in the Pacific
Subtitle: Essays on Contact, Encounter and Response
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 24, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780521422840
Subjects: Australian & Pacific history; History of other lands; Sociology; General; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Intercultural Communication; Pacific Islanders; Education; Pacific Ocean; History; Teaching Methods & Materials - Social Science; Education-Teaching Methods & Materials - Social Science; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Australia & Oceania; Social Science / General; Acculturation; Cultural assimilation; Discovery and exploration; Oceania
First sentence: The human colonisation of Australia and New Guinea was initially the achievement of stone-using hunters and gatherers who crossed the sea channels of eastern Indonesia, perhaps 60 000 years ago.