Prehistory in the Pacific Islands: A study of variation in language, customs, and human biology
by Terrell, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0521306043
- ISBN 13
- 9780521306041
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Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 299 pages, b&w illustrations. How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity. A few pages with light pencil marking, otherwise clean. Record # 381524
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- Title
- Prehistory in the Pacific Islands: A study of variation in language, customs, and human biology
- Author
- Terrell, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0521306043
- ISBN 13
- 9780521306041
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge UK
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Social Sciences, Anthropology, , .
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