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Article: Sea People of the West.(Report)
- Article from:
- The Geographical Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
- Author:
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I take the liberty of inventing a name, the "Sea People of the West." Such a name is not really mine to invent, either by right of scholarly knowledge or by right of a historical past that is mine. Scholars with far more knowledge than I have other names for my Sea People of the West: "Austronesians," "Archaeo-Polynesians." The present-day islanders, whose ancestors the Sea People of the West were, as yet have no name for them, although I ride a wave of their energy as they seek a name in the past that will give them identity in the present. They seek a name for the ocean habitat that is theirs. "Pacific," "South Seas," "Polynesia," even "Oceania" are not theirs. "Sea of ...
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