The quest for origins
Subtitle: who first discovered and settled the Pacific islands?
By: K.R. Howe.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780824827502
Subjects: Polynesians -- Origin; Ethnology -- Oceania; Oceania -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1: Contexts of inquiry; title: Chapter 2: Some 'mainstream' ideas: 1760s-1860s; title: Chapter 3: Some 'mainstream' ideas: 1860s-1940s; title: Chapter 4: Current ideas: when and where?; title: Chapter 5: Current ideas: how?; title: Chapter 6: Alternative ideas; title: Chapter 7: 'New' learning: or old learning?; title: Chapter 8: Maori origins: creating New Zealand prehistory.