Oceanic Voices - European Quills: The Early Documents on and in Chamorro and Rapanui

ISBN-13: 9783050062785 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 245 str.

Steven Roger Fischer

Opis

"Oceanic Voices - European Quills" celebrates the linguistic historiography of two Oceanic poles. The northwest Pacific's Chamorro of Guam and the Northern Marianas was the first (16th century), and the southeast Pacific's Rapanui of Easter Island one of the last (19th century) of the Austronesian tongues to inspire linguistic investigation within greater Oceania. These pioneering efforts are honored in nine articles which document, translate, chronicle, describe and analyze the earliest relics from these two island cultures. This collection of articles reveals fundamental insights not only into earlier stages of both Chamorro and Rapanui but also into the very discipline of linguistic historiography in one of Earth's humanly richest and most fascinating regions.

O autorze

Steven Roger Fischer is former director of the Institute of Polynesian Languages and Literatures in Auckland, New Zealand Steven Roger Fischer ist der ehemalige Director des Institute of Polynesian Languages and Literatures in Auckland, Neuseeland