Robert Langdon
Biographic Data
| ID | 193375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Langdon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Langdon |
| SIGNATURE | LANGDON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Telling Pacific Lives: Prisms of Process
How are Pacific lives imagined, written and read? How are they refracted through prisms of process? From legends about culture heroes to biographies of national leaders, from tales of ancestors to stories of contemporary men and women, from lives told of both the famous and the nameless, this collection of essays - by historians and anthropologists, Islanders and Island
The bamboo raft as a key to the introduction of the sweet potato in prehistoric Polynesia
The idea that American Indians played no part in Polynesian prehistory originated with J.R. Forster, a companion of Cook on his second voyage. Forster made a comparative study of five Polynesian languages, using a basic list of 40 words that included 'sweet potato'. He concluded that although there were many similarities between those languages and the languages of Southeast Asia, 'no distant or accidental similarity' existed between the Polynesi…
The bamboo raft as a key to the introduction of the sweet potato in prehistoric Polynesia
The idea that American Indians played no part in Polynesian prehistory originated with J.R. Forster, a companion of Cook on his second voyage. Forster made a comparative study of five Polynesian languages, using a basic list of 40 words that included 'sweet potato'. He concluded that although there were many similarities between those languages and the languages of Southeast Asia, 'no distant or accidental similarity' existed between the Polynesi…
Honor Maude
Dusky Damsels: Pitcairn Island's Neglected Matriarchs of the Bounty Saga
In the 1920s and 1930s, the American physical anthropologist Harry L. Shapiro studied the inheritance of anthropometric and qualitative traits among descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Polynesian wives on Norfolk and Pitcairrn Islands. He assumed that the islanders were derived from 'two fairly divergent groups - English and Tahitian', the women being 'the darker ancestral group' in skin colour and 'fairly homozygous for brown eyes'. Ho…
An Alternative Explanation for Alleged Wreckage of the Caravel San Lesmes found at Amanu
New light on Easter Island prehistory in a ‘censored’ Spanish report of 1770
Theo B. Kok, 1929–1994
Early Observations of Marquesan Culture 1595-1813
The banana as a key to early American and Polynesian history∗
have become so commonplace in temperate countries that there can be few people in the world today who do not know what a banana is.l Yet 500 years ago when Columbus blundered on the Americas, the banana was almost completely unknown to the people of Europe and there was no single word to describe it in any European language. Thus, when Antonio Pigafetta, chief chronicler of the Magellan expedition, referred to the banana in writing of the foods o…
Robert langdon replies
in the 'chicken dish' served by Mr Robert Langdon, he turns himself out as a poor cook using as far as the Quechua 'chicken salad' is concerned the wrong ingredients. In trying to come up with an etymology of Proto-Quechua (PQ) * wallpa 'chicken', he breaks the word down into xva 'bird' and allpa 'ground, earth', postulating the original meaning of the compound to have been 'ground/earth bird'. (In doing so he is able to identify wa with Easter I…
History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch
Caucasian Maoris: 16Th-Century Spaniards in New Zealand
Lee Boo of Belau: A Prince in London. Daniel J. Peacock
When the blue‐egg chickens come home to roost: New thoughts on the prehistory of the domestic fowl in Asia, America and the Pacific Islands ∗
(1989). When the blue‐egg chickens come home to roost: New thoughts on the prehistory of the domestic fowl in Asia, America and the Pacific Islands. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 164-192
The secret history of the papaw in the south pacific: An essay in reconstruction
IN I935, WHEN THE AMERICAN BOTANIST FOREST B. H. BROWN PUBLISHED THE third volume of his monograph The Flora of Southeastern Polynesia, he stated emphat ically that although the papaw, Carica papaya, was a native of tropical America, it was 'of aboriginal introduction in Polynesia'. The Marquesans, he said, recog nised the papaw as one of their ancient food plants. At least two varieties were present in their islands, both of which yielded abunda…
Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890
Manioc, a Long Concealed Key to the Enigma of Easter Island
European Vision and the South Pacific. (Second Edition)
Shorter notices
Drake's Island of Thieves. Ethnological Sleuthing. By William A. Lessa. Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1975. xviii, 289 pp. Maps, illus., bibliography. $US 12.00. The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker from the Crimea to Vietnam. By phillip knightley. London, Andre Deutsch, 1975.465 pp, plates, notes on sources, bibliography and index. £5.95. Not as a Duty Only: An Infantryman's War. By Henry ('JO')…
Shorter notices
Hawaii: A Pictorial History. Compiled and designed by Joseph Feher. Accompanying text by Edward Joesting and O. A. Bushnell. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication No. 58. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1969. 504 pp., illus., maps, bibliog., index. $US25.00. Les Photographes à Tahiti et Leurs Oeuvres 1842–1962. By Patrick O'reilly. Paris, Société des Océanistes, 1969. 85 pp., illus., table of materials. 220F. Contributions to a Bibliography…
Papua New Guinea records project
Shorter notices
Bibliotheca Polynesiana: A catalogue of some of the books in the Polynesiana collection formed by the late Bjarne Kroepelien and now in the Oslo University Library. By Rolf Du Rietz. Oslo, Privately published by the heirs of Bjarne Kroepelien, 1969. lxviii, 455 pp. News from New Cythera: A Report of Bougainville's Voyage, 1766–1769. Edited by L. Davis Hammond. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1970. vi, 66 pp. The Treponematosis of Tahi…
Unpublished manuscripts V: A view on Ari'i Taimai's memoirs
From the archives
When the blue‐egg chickens come home to roost: New thoughts on the prehistory of the domestic fowl in Asia, America and the Pacific Islands ∗
(1989). When the blue‐egg chickens come home to roost: New thoughts on the prehistory of the domestic fowl in Asia, America and the Pacific Islands. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 164-192
Manioc, a Long Concealed Key to the Enigma of Easter Island
Caucasian Maoris: 16Th-Century Spaniards in New Zealand
From the archives
History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch
Telling Pacific Lives: Prisms of Process
How are Pacific lives imagined, written and read? How are they refracted through prisms of process? From legends about culture heroes to biographies of national leaders, from tales of ancestors to stories of contemporary men and women, from lives told of both the famous and the nameless, this collection of essays - by historians and anthropologists, Islanders and Island
An Alternative Explanation for Alleged Wreckage of the Caravel San Lesmes found at Amanu
Lee Boo of Belau: A Prince in London. Daniel J. Peacock
From the archives
The lost treasure of Afareaitu
From the archives
Unpublished manuscripts V: A view on Ari'i Taimai's memoirs
From the archives
Shorter notices
Bibliotheca Polynesiana: A catalogue of some of the books in the Polynesiana collection formed by the late Bjarne Kroepelien and now in the Oslo University Library. By Rolf Du Rietz. Oslo, Privately published by the heirs of Bjarne Kroepelien, 1969. lxviii, 455 pp. News from New Cythera: A Report of Bougainville's Voyage, 1766–1769. Edited by L. Davis Hammond. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1970. vi, 66 pp. The Treponematosis of Tahi…
Shorter notices
Hawaii: A Pictorial History. Compiled and designed by Joseph Feher. Accompanying text by Edward Joesting and O. A. Bushnell. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication No. 58. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1969. 504 pp., illus., maps, bibliog., index. $US25.00. Les Photographes à Tahiti et Leurs Oeuvres 1842–1962. By Patrick O'reilly. Paris, Société des Océanistes, 1969. 85 pp., illus., table of materials. 220F. Contributions to a Bibliography…
Papua New Guinea records project
Shorter notices
Drake's Island of Thieves. Ethnological Sleuthing. By William A. Lessa. Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1975. xviii, 289 pp. Maps, illus., bibliography. $US 12.00. The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker from the Crimea to Vietnam. By phillip knightley. London, Andre Deutsch, 1975.465 pp, plates, notes on sources, bibliography and index. £5.95. Not as a Duty Only: An Infantryman's War. By Henry ('JO')…
European Vision and the South Pacific. (Second Edition)
Manioc, a Long Concealed Key to the Enigma of Easter Island
When the blue‐egg chickens come home to roost: New thoughts on the prehistory of the domestic fowl in Asia, America and the Pacific Islands ∗
(1989). When the blue‐egg chickens come home to roost: New thoughts on the prehistory of the domestic fowl in Asia, America and the Pacific Islands. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 164-192
The secret history of the papaw in the south pacific: An essay in reconstruction
IN I935, WHEN THE AMERICAN BOTANIST FOREST B. H. BROWN PUBLISHED THE third volume of his monograph The Flora of Southeastern Polynesia, he stated emphat ically that although the papaw, Carica papaya, was a native of tropical America, it was 'of aboriginal introduction in Polynesia'. The Marquesans, he said, recog nised the papaw as one of their ancient food plants. At least two varieties were present in their islands, both of which yielded abunda…
Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890
Lee Boo of Belau: A Prince in London. Daniel J. Peacock
History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch
Caucasian Maoris: 16Th-Century Spaniards in New Zealand
Robert langdon replies
in the 'chicken dish' served by Mr Robert Langdon, he turns himself out as a poor cook using as far as the Quechua 'chicken salad' is concerned the wrong ingredients. In trying to come up with an etymology of Proto-Quechua (PQ) * wallpa 'chicken', he breaks the word down into xva 'bird' and allpa 'ground, earth', postulating the original meaning of the compound to have been 'ground/earth bird'. (In doing so he is able to identify wa with Easter I…
The banana as a key to early American and Polynesian history∗
have become so commonplace in temperate countries that there can be few people in the world today who do not know what a banana is.l Yet 500 years ago when Columbus blundered on the Americas, the banana was almost completely unknown to the people of Europe and there was no single word to describe it in any European language. Thus, when Antonio Pigafetta, chief chronicler of the Magellan expedition, referred to the banana in writing of the foods o…
Theo B. Kok, 1929–1994
Early Observations of Marquesan Culture 1595-1813
New light on Easter Island prehistory in a ‘censored’ Spanish report of 1770
Dusky Damsels: Pitcairn Island's Neglected Matriarchs of the Bounty Saga
In the 1920s and 1930s, the American physical anthropologist Harry L. Shapiro studied the inheritance of anthropometric and qualitative traits among descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Polynesian wives on Norfolk and Pitcairrn Islands. He assumed that the islanders were derived from 'two fairly divergent groups - English and Tahitian', the women being 'the darker ancestral group' in skin colour and 'fairly homozygous for brown eyes'. Ho…
An Alternative Explanation for Alleged Wreckage of the Caravel San Lesmes found at Amanu
The bamboo raft as a key to the introduction of the sweet potato in prehistoric Polynesia
The idea that American Indians played no part in Polynesian prehistory originated with J.R. Forster, a companion of Cook on his second voyage. Forster made a comparative study of five Polynesian languages, using a basic list of 40 words that included 'sweet potato'. He concluded that although there were many similarities between those languages and the languages of Southeast Asia, 'no distant or accidental similarity' existed between the Polynesi…
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