6.1133, Books: New book on Austronesians

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Subject: 6.1133, Books: New book on Austronesians

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Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) New book on Austronesians
        by Malcolm.Ross at anu.edu.au (Malcolm Ross)

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 16:55:49 +1000
From: Malcolm.Ross at anu.edu.au (Malcolm Ross)
To: arcling at anugpo.anu.edu.au
Subject: New book on Austronesians
Message-ID: <ac31983604021004894b@[150.203.81.202]>

The following book may be of interest to some members of the list (this is
the text of the flier).

I am only the instrument of transmission! E-mail enquiries may be sent to
the Department of Anthropology which published the book at
st at coombs.anu.edu.au.
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The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox and Darrell Tryon

The intention of this volume is to examine the implications and
consequences of  the complex heritage by which Austronesian peoples and
societies are linked by branching lines of common ancestry spanning the
past 6000 years.

The Austronesian languages form a single and relatively close-knit family.
Prior to AD 1500 the Austronesian languages belonged to the most widespread
language family in the world, with a distribution extending half way around
the globe from Madagascar to Easter Island. Today, Austronesian-speaking
peoples comprise most or all of the indigenous populations of Indonesia,
Malaysia, the Philippines and Madagascar. Austronesian languages are also
found on Taiwan, in parts of southern Vietnam and Cambodia, in the Mergui
archipelago off the coast of Burma, and on Hainan Island in southern China.
Further to the east, Austronesian languages are spoken in the coastal areas
of Papua New Guinea, in New Britain and New Ireland and down the Melanesian
chain of islands through the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu as far as New
Caledonia and Fiji. From there they extend eastwards to include all of the
languages of Polynesia and northwards to take in all of the languages of
Micronesia. There are estimated to be between 1000 and 1200 distinct
Austronesian languages, spoken by an estimated 270 million people.

The Comparative Austronesian Study Project under whose auspices this volume
took shape was intended to draw together anthropological, archaeological
and linguistic approaches for the study of the Austronesian-speaking
populations and to fashion a general framework for the mutual
interpretation of the complexities of the Austronesian heritage. The
disciplines drawn upon to illuminate aspects of Austronesian culture and
history include linguistics, genetics, zoogeography and social
anthropology. Cross-cutting are other disciplines which draw their data
directly out of traces of humanity and human activity which survive from
the remoter past. These disciplines include archaeology, palaeoanthropology
and literary history.

The chapters in this volume have been organized into two sections, the
first focusing on questions of origins and dispersal, the second on
questions of the interactions and transformations which Austronesian
peoples and societies have undergone since dispersal occurred.

A publication of the Department of Anthropology as part of the
Comparative Austronesian Project,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
The Australian National University,
Canberra  ACT  Australia
1995
359 pp., illustrations, references, index
Department of Anthropology

Contents

The Austronesians in History: Common Origins and Diverse Transformations
Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox and Darrell Tryon

Section 1: Origins and Dispersals

Proto-Austronesian and the Major Austronesian Subgroups  Darrell Tryon

The Prehistory of the Oceanic Languages: a Current View  Andrew Pawley and
Malcolm Ross

Borneo as a Cross-roads for Comparative Austronesian Linguistics  K.
Alexander Adelaar

Austronesian Prehistory in Southeast Asia: Homeland, Expansion and
Transformation  Peter Bellwood

The Lapita Culture and Austronesian Prehistory in Oceania   Matthew Spriggs

The Austronesian Conquest of the Sea - Upwind  Adrian Horridge

Domesticated and Commensal Mammals of Austronesia and their Histories
Colin P. Groves

Section 2: Transformations and Interactions

Homo sapiens is an Evolving Species: Origins of the Austronesians  S.W.
Serjeantson and X. Gao

A Study of Genetic Distance and the Austronesian/non-Austronesian Dichotomy
Kuldeep Bhatia, Simon Easteal and Robert L. Kirk

Language Contact and Change in Melanesia  Tom Dutton

Austronesian Societies and their Transformations  James J. Fox

Sea Nomads and Rainforest Hunter-gatherers: Foraging Adaptations in the
Indo-Malaysian Archipelago      Clifford Sather

Exchange Systems, Political Dynamics, and Colonial Transformations in
Nineteenth Century Oceania        Nicholas Thomas

Indic Transformation: the Sanskritization of Jawa and the Javanization of
the Bhoarata  S. Supomo

Continuity and Change in the Austronesian Transition to Islam and
Christianity  Anthony Reid

Christianity and Austronesian Transformations: Church, Polity and Culture
in the Philippines and the Pacific    Aram A. Yengoyan

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