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Introduction: 'Austronesia' and the great Austronesian migration
World Archaeology, 2004What lies behind the widespread distribution of the Austronesian languages today? Some claim we must invoke an ancient cultural 'mutation' - the invention of agriculture - and a consequent prehistoric migration to account for it. But do we need a big story to explain this kind of big problem? What other sorts of stories would work as well or better?
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Care for the seafarers: a review of mental health in Austronesia.
Asia-Pacific psychiatry : official journal of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists, 2014Continent-based regional reviews of mental health may not fully describe the status of ethnocultural groups that are widely dispersed across multiple continents or traditional world regions. Our aim was to describe the Austronesians, an ethno-linguistic group living primarily in islands and coastal areas in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and Southeast ...
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Headhunting and Warfare: Evidence from Austronesia
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023Boris Gershman, Tinatin Mumladze
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Population expansion in the western Pacific (Austronesia): a wave of advance model
Antiquity, 2003The author reconsiders the ‘wave of advance model’ used to describe (and partly explain) the rate at which people adopted farming. It is usually applied to large open areas, where one population group can easily see or meet another – but the populations considered here live on islands. Joaquim Fort finds that the 5000 km extent of the South Pacific was
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Case Studies from Austronesia, the Pacific, the Americas, and Theoretical Outlook
2015The two volumes deal with cross-linguistic variation in valency classes in terms of argument coding and argument alternations. The first systematic typological attempt to uncover the universal and the language-particular in this area, the work includes synoptic introductory articles, 30 in-depth questionnaire-based studies of valency classes in ...
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Care for the seafarers: A review of mental health in Austronesia
Asia-Pacific Psychiatry, 2013Anthony P.S. Guerrero +3 more
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Headhunting and warfare in Austronesia: A phylogenetic comparative analysis
Journal of Economic Behavior & OrganizationBoris Gershman, Tinatin Mumladze
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