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From its earliest days, the society published the quarterly Journal of the Polynesian Society, which became the society's principal means to publish information about the indigenous peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. The journal is a rich repository of the traditions of Oceania. Its first editors were S. Percy Smith and Edward ...
The Journal of the Polynesian Society 106, no. 4 (1997): 323–374. Tapsell, Paul, and Christine Woods. "A spiral of innovation framework for social entrepreneurship: Social innovation at the generational divide in an indigenous context."
Crocombe is also the author of numerous academic journal articles, including in The Contemporary Pacific, [7] The Journal of Pacific History, [8] Comparative Education, [9] and The Journal of the Polynesian Society. [10]
Thomas Powell FLS (18 June 1817 – 6 April 1887) [1]: 58–59 was a British missionary sent by the London Missionary Society (LMS) in 1844 to Samoa where he remained for 43 years. He was interested in botany, zoology and anthropology and was elected as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London .
When Smith established the Polynesian Society in 1892 with the intention of promoting interest in and discussion of Polynesian history and culture, Best became a foundation member. [1] For the Society's first edition of its Journal he wrote an article on the people of the Philippines. He also began a series of publications concerning the ...
A detailed account of the war was published by Walter Edward Gudgeon in the 1893 issue of the Journal of the Polynesian Society, with no indication of the sources on which it is based. [2] It is also recorded by Pei Te Hurinui Jones, based on oral testimony given at the Māori Land Court at Cambridge in a dispute over ownership of Waotū. [3]
New Zealander Derek Freeman carried out excavations in the early 1940s and published his report in the Journal of the Polynesian Society of New Zealand, in 1944. He found an 'elaborate system of platforms' constructed of lava rocks raised to a height of about 2–3 feet above the cave floor, stone adzes typical of the prehistoric types found in ...
Luomala was a prolific academic writer, with at least eight monographs and more than a hundred articles, [7] in scholarly journals including The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, [10] The Journal of the Polynesian Society, [11] [12] Human Organization, [13] Applied Anthropology, [14] Fabula, [15] [16] Pacific Science, [17] The Journal of American Folklore, [18] [19] Ethnology, [20] Asian Perspectives ...