This was mainly a
library research which resulted in the following presentation:
"Radiality in
Tongan Space and Kinship or about the Content of the Interface between two Mental
Modules." Paper presented in the invited session "Cultural Models and Schema
Theory: Present Issues and Future Development" organized by David Kronenfeld;
Victor DeMunck; Robert Schrauf for the 99th Annual Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. See electronic posting at http://real.anthropology.ac.uk
November 19, 2000
It also produced
a short bibliography:
- Akerblom, Kjell.
(1968). Astronomy and Navigation in Polynesia and Micronesia. Monograph, no.
14, Stockholm: Ethnographical Museum.
- Alkire, William
H. (1970). Systems of Measurement on Woleai Atoll, Caroline Islands. Anthropos,
65, pp. 1-73.
- Buck, Peter H.
(1959). Vikings of the Pacific. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
[first published as Vikings of the Sunrise in 1938]
- Davidson, Graham
R. (1983). Cognitive Mapping features of Micronesian Navigation Systems. In
W. Maxwell (Ed.) Thinking-The Expanding Frontier. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum
Assocs.
- Feinberg, Richard.
(1988). Polynesian Seafaring and Navigation: Ocean Travel in Anutan Culture
and Society. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press.
- Finney, Ben R.
(Ed.) (1976). Pacific Navigation and Voyaging. Wellington, New Zealand: The
Polynesian Society Inc.
- Gatty, Harold.
(1958). Nature is your Guide: How to Find your Way on Land and Sea by Observing
Nature. New York: Dutton & Co.
- Gladwin, Thomas.
(1970). East is a Big Bird: Navigation and Logic on Puluwat Atoll. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press.
- Golson, Jack.
(Ed.) (1963). Polynesian Navigation: A Symposium on Andrew Sharp's Theory
of Accidental Voyages. Wellington, New Zealand: The Polynesian Society Inc.
- Goodenough, Ward
H. (1996). Navigation in the Western Carolines. In Laura Nader (Ed.) Naked
Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge. New
York: Routledge.
- Goodenough, Ward
H. (1953). Native Astronomy in the Central Carolines. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania, The University Museum
- Hilder, Brett.
(1965). Kau Moala the Tongan Navigator. The Journal of the Institute of Navigation,
18: 246-49.
- Irwin, Geoffrey.
(1992). The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
- Kyselka, Will.
(1987). An Ocean in Mind. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
- Lewis, David.
(1974). Voyaging Stars: Aspects of Polynesian and Micronesian Astronomy. In
The Place of Astronomy in the Ancient World. A Joint Symposyum of the Royal
Society and The British Academy. London: Oxford University Press.
- Lewis, David.
(1972). We, the Navigators. Honolulu: The University of Hawai'i Press.
- Lewis, David.
(1964). Polynesian Navigational Methods. JPS, 73 (4), pp.364-74.
- Riesenberg, Saul
H. (1972). The Organisation of Navigational Knowledge on Puluwat. JPS, 81
(1), pp. 19-56.
- Sharp, Andrew.
(1964a). Ancient Voyagers in Polynesia. Berkeley: University of California
Press.
- Sharp, Andrew.
(1964b). Polynesian Navigation. The Journal of the Institute of Navigation,
11 (1), pp. 75-76.
- Sharp, Andrew.
(1957). Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books
Ltd.
- Thomas, Stephen
D. (1987). The Last Navigator. New York: Henry Holt and Co.
- Turnbull, David.
(1994). Comparing Knowledge Systems: Pacific Navigation and Western Science.
In J. Morrison, P. Gerarthy, & L. Crowl, Science of Pacific Island People:
Ocean and Coastal Studies. Vol. 1. Institute of Pacific Studies. pp. 129-44.
- Turnbull, David.
(1991). Mapping the World in the Mind: An Investigation of the Unwritten Knowledge
of the Micronesian Navigators. Victoria: Deakin University Press.
And some very interesting
web sites:
http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/pvs/
http://www.pbs.org/wayfinders/
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/navigation/Intro.html
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