{"product_id":"the-quest-for-origins-k-r-howe-9780824827502","title":"The Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled the Pacific Islands?","description":"\u003cp\u003eDid they come from space, from Egypt, from the Americas? From other ancient civilizations? These are some of today's most fanciful claims about the first settlers of the islands of the Pacific. But none of them correctly answer the question: Where did the Polynesians come from? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is a thoughtful and devastating critique of such \"new\" learning, and a careful and accessible survey of modern archaeological, anthropological, genetic, and linguistics findings about the origins of Pacific Islanders. Professor Howe also examines the two-hundred-year-old history of Western ideas about Polynesian origins in the context of ever-changing fads and intellectual fashions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e K. R. Howe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0824827503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780824827502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Hawaii Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.82h x 6.36w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2004 pg. 1120","brand":"K. R. Howe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926568337663,"sku":"9780824827502","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_dd54c82c-352f-4de5-8c06-f14f3399e000.jpg?v=1681083796","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-quest-for-origins-k-r-howe-9780824827502","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}