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PACS 108 (Dr. Line-Noue Kruse): Migration

This is a guide for PACS 108 taught by Dr. Line-Noue Kruse

Focus Questions

How was the Pacific envisioned and named?
What evidence is noted to identify the dispersal of Pacific Islanders?
What is Lapita pottery, Austronesian language, and genetics?

KEY CONCEPTS: Disperal, Tupaia, Lapita pottery, Austronesian language

Books and Ebooks

Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages : Studies in the Dynamics of Binding and Boundness by Isabelle Bril and Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre
Call Number: ebook, click link to access
Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia : An Essay in Historical Anthropology by Patrick Vinton Kirch and Roger C. Green
Call Number: ebook, click link to access
Return to Kahiki: native Hawaiians in Oceania by Kealani Cook
Call Number: H/P DU624.65 .C67 2017
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
Call Number: H/P DU510 .T56 2019
Topics in Oceanic Morphosyntax by Claire Moyse-Faurie and Joachim Sabel
Call Number: ebook, click link to access
Vaka moana: voyages of the ancestors: the discovery and settlement of the Pacific by K.R. Howe Temporary access to ebook; print version also available
Call Number: ebook, click link to access
The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration by David A. Chang
Call Number: ebook, click link to access

Journal Articles

Videos

Easter Island - Ancient links with New Zealand Maori by Wakahuiatvnz (YouTube)
Made in Taiwan by Dan Salmon
Two Polynesian broadcasters use their own DNA to retrace the path through the Pacific that their voyaging ancestors followed from Asia.