Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890University of Hawaii Press, 1 jan 1988 - 320 pagina's The author lived on the island for seven years and in this monograph combines his direct experience with his scholarly training (in history) to present an insightful mixture of cultural anthropology, archaeology, oral traditions, and archival history. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). |
Inhoudsopgave
The Other Side of Yesterday | 3 |
Ghosts from the Open Ocean | 26 |
The Terms of Trade | 59 |
God versus Gods | 87 |
Strategies of Salvation | 113 |
Mesenieng | 142 |
The Struggles over Ohwa | 164 |
The Persistence of Tiahk en Sapw | 196 |
Reaffirmation of the 1852 Land Grant to the Protestant Mission at Rohnkiti | 214 |
The 1880 Missionary Deed to Mesenieng | 215 |
The 1886 Deed to Protestant Mission Land at Ohwa | 216 |
The Formal Proclamation of Possession of the Island by Spain with Accompanying Articles of Submission | 218 |
Descriptions of the Two Spanish Proclamations Dividing Madolenihmw between the Chiefdoms of Kiti and U | 221 |
Abbreviations | 225 |
Notes | 227 |
Glossary | 259 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
ABCFM American Anderson arrival beachcombers Bernart Board Cabeza Pereiro 1895 Cadarso canoes Captain Caroline Islands ceremony Cheyne chiefdom chiefly Christian church clan Clark colony cultural death Dipwinmen Doane Doane's entry feast Fischer forces foreign governor Gulick Hambruch Hawaiian Hezel Honolulu Ibid Isohkelekel journal letter July June Katau Kiti Kosrae land Lehdau lenihmw Lepen Moar Luhk Lütke Mado Madolenihmw Manila Masao Hadley 1981a Mesenieng Micronesia mission station missionaries Mortlocks Mwudok Nahn Sapwe Nahnawa Nahnken Nahnken of Kiti Nahnku Nahnmwarki Nahnmwarki of Madolenihmw Nan Madol Nanpei O'Connell Ohwa Onohnleng Pacific Islands Palikir paramount chiefs party Pehleng peians Pohn Pohnpei Pohnpeian society Pohnpeians political Ponape Posadillo reef Riesenberg 1968a Rohnkiti rulers ruling sakau Saudeleurs ships shore sionaries Soukise Sounkawad Spain Spaniards Spanish Sturges subclan Temwen Temwen Island tion trade traditional Truk violence voyage warriors Wasai Wasai Sokehs Wene Western whaleship whaling women
Populaire passages
Pagina 281 - The History of the Bonin Islands from the Year 1827 to the Year 1876 and of Nathaniel Savory, One of the Original Settlers, to which is added a short supplement dealing with the islands after their occupation by the Japanese.
Pagina 281 - Trubner. 1971 The Trading Voyages of Andrew Cheyne, 1841-1844. Edited by Dorothy Shineberg. Pacific History Series no. 3. Canberra: Australian National University Press.