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Pac.DU28.D24 2006
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TITLE: The people of the sea : environment, identity and history in Oceania / Paul D'Arcy.
AUTHOR: D'Arcy, Paul.
PUBLISHED: Honolulu : University of HawaiÊi Press, c2006.
DESCRIPTION: xvii, 292 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
NOTES: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-282) and index.
NOTES: The oceanic environment -- Local worlds : the sea in everyday life -- Communication and relative isolation in the sea of islands -- Seafaring in Oceania -- Fluid frontiers : the sea as a contested space -- Across the horizon : interactions with the outside world -- Connected by the sea : towards a regional history of the Western Caroline Islands.
ELEC. ACCESS: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip062/2005029353.html
SUBJECT: Oceania--Social life and customs.
SUBJECT: Pacific Islanders--Social life and customs.
SUBJECT: National characteristics.
SUBJECT: Seafaring life--Oceania.
SUBJECT: Navigation--Oceania--History.
SUBJECT: Maritime anthropology--Oceania.
SUBJECT: Oceania--Environmental conditions.
SUBJECT: Oceania--History.
SUBJECT: Ocean and civilization.

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