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Robert C. Suggs

Autor(a) de The Island Civilizations of Polynesia

11 Works 123 Membros 3 Críticas

About the Author

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Image credit: Robert C. Suggs in 1956

Obras por Robert C. Suggs

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Suggs, Robert Carl
Data de nascimento
1932
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Educação
Columbia University
Ocupações
archaeologist
anthropologist
Organizações
American Museum of Natural History

Membros

Críticas

Mostly enjoyable reading and certainly enough to make a person who has been in the Pacific (I’ve not been to the Marquesas though) ponder their experiences. Serial sex? Now there is a bad boy (girl)!
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untraveller | Jul 31, 2019 |
1829 The Island Civilizations of Polynesia, by Robert C. Suggs (read 28 Feb 1984) I am not sure when, if ever, I have read a book on anthropology before. No doubt it would have been logical to read an introductory text thereon before reading this study. This book was written in 1960 by an anthropologist. Really quite interesting, but so new to me that I am not sure I got much out of it. The author ridicules the theory of Kon Tiki--that Polynesia was settled from Peru--and examines the anthropological and archeological findings re Hawaii, New Zealand, Easter Island, and other islands. I was interested in his statement that the Maori of New Zealand were now integrated with the culture of the European colonials. I had not realized that. Not a bad book.… (mais)
½
 
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Schmerguls | Sep 22, 2008 |
The author appears to be an accomplished archeologist. Provides photographs, methodology and artifact descriptions... and although he writes in detail, he is a wildly incompetent cultural anthropologist.

Stones. Large stone tiki at Vaitaviri in Taipi Valley. Great wall, paepae, at Vahangeku'a, Taipivai.
 
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keylawk | Nov 22, 2007 |

Estatísticas

Obras
11
Membros
123
Popularidade
#162,201
Avaliação
½ 3.3
Críticas
3
ISBN
3

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