Prehistory in the Pacific Islands(English, Paperback, Terrell John E.)

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Prehistory in the Pacific Islands(English, Paperback, Terrell John E.) is written by Terrell John E. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521369568 (ISBN 10) and 9780521369565 (ISBN 13).

How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity.