Kirch and Green 2001

Links

• 10.1017/CBO9780511613678

References

Sections

• 2.2 Locating Proto Oceanic
  • Early human settlement of Near Oceania
  • On the physical geography of the Bismarck Archipelago
• 2.9 Time
  • The year and its seasons
• 6.4 Social rank and lunations
  • Introduction
  • Reconstructing terms for rank and leadership in Proto Polynesian society
  • PPn *fatu kāiŋa ‘? head of family’
  • Variation in systems of rank and leadership in Polynesia
  • Issues with ‘ancestral Polynesian society’
• 6.5 Settlement patterns and territory in the Proto Oceanic speech community
  • Land tenure
• 6.8 Magic and the supernatural
  • First fruits
  • The practitioners
• 6.11 Seasonal cycles and lunations
  • Years and seasons
  • Named seasons
  • The Pleiades
  • Organisation of the lunar calendar
  • Reconstructions

Words

• PCP/PPn: sau chiefly authority or rule ruler, one who has authority
• PPn: fatu, fatu kāiŋa leader of the *kāiŋa
• PPn: kainaŋa a land-holding exogamous descent group tracing descent from a common ancestor and headed by an *qariki clan, unilineal descent group cognatic descent group descent group, headed by an *qariki “chief” populace, commoners the subjects of a chief, the common people
• PPn: qinati first fruits rituals? share, allocated portion of food