Eastern Polynesian languages

Prologue: Yali’s Question Jared Diamond has done extensive field work in New Guinea.  His indigenous New Guinean politician friend Yali asked why whites had been so successful and arrived with so much "cargo" compared to the locals.  Diamond rephrases this question: why did white Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns, population-destroying germs, steel, and food-producing capability?  Diamond’s main thesis is that this occurred not because of racial differences in intelligence

throughout the whole Maori way of life, and in this century there has been a conscious effort to preserve - or revive - the traditional skills of weaving and fibre arts, painting, latticework, carving, tattoo, chant and oratory, as well as Maori language and customs. The spiritual dimension of Maori art is still strongly felt: the taonga, or art treasures, of the Maori are not only objects of beauty

recent industrialization (south East Asia), others for economic and human backwardness (sub-Saharan Africa), others for economic supremacy and political hegemony (North America) or others for profound and radical transformations in the recent years (Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union). Due to the macro-scale of analysis, the most important criterion is general functionally; the uniqueness and homogeneity come second. The typology of main regions of the

The Westward Spread of Inca and Egyptian Culture The second half of the twentieth century has seen many changes in theories concerning the mode of colonization of the islands of Micronesia, and the rise of the Inca Empire, with it's striking similarities to Egypt. In the past, it has been suggested that Asians had worked their way through the Pacific, over a period of thousands of years. It was believed that each island group had formed independently, and that the residents

Maritime Revolution to 1550 I. Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450 A. The Pacific Ocean -Historians have debated for years about Polynesian people and their sailing.Despite traveling over the vast Pacific Ocean and not being able to navigateusing the land (because of their distance from it, they could not follow the shoreline) The Polynesians left no written records on how they navigated, andhistorians debate over whether they were actually able to navigate or whetherthey just got lost

interview based on the awareness about Maori culture in New Zealand. In this assessment I found four main themes and describe it, and the four main themes is tattoo, language, life style and food. Because in New Zealand there are two culture, one is Maori culture and other is kiwi culture. Tattoo- Maori people originally came from eastern Polynesian and Maori people have different type of body art, which called tattoo in their culture. And Maori people brought this art from Polynesia and this tattoo is very

Obesity in the Pacific is a growing health concern and has been the primary cause of non-communicable diseases and avoidable deaths among several island nations. According to the United Kingdom’s Clinic Compare data, the Pacific in general has the highest rates of obesity globally (Mata et al, 2007). Proportionately, American Samoa is the most obese country in the world with 75% of the population being obese. Independent Samoa follows close behind with a level of 54% obesity among the population

Micronesians culture consist of their religion, social standards, gender statuses, art and music, history, and their political life. The language of Micronesia is mixed with several languages that belong to the Eastern and Polynesian languages. The official language, which is taught in schools, is English. Many natives use English as their secondary language, using their main dialect

occasionally make statements in a language that the children could not speak. I realize now that they were making these statements in Hawaiian, although they did not speak the language fluently, and their children did not speak the language at all. Unfortunately, this loss of language from one generation to the next has been quite common in Hawaii since the early nineteen-hundreds when the influence of the United States resulted in institutionalized language death. Hawaiian language, also known as Ōlelo Hawai‘I

domesticated.  Most successful domesticates had been achieved by Roman times. Chapter 8: Apples or Indians The rise of food production in the Fertile Crescent was made possible by the Mediterranean climate.  In contrast, Mesoamerica, New Guinea, and the Eastern US were limited in the available large seed grasses, domestic able animals, edible pulses, and high protein domestic plants. Arrival of appropriate founder sort speed up the food production where suitable plants were previously lacking.  Local inhabitants