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Identification and Key Terms
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 4
05/28/2014

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Pacific ring of fire
Definition
ring of volcanic activity and earthquakes due to movement around borders of Pacific tectonic plate
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American Samoa
Definition
Polynesia, US territory
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Caroline Islands
Definition
Micronesia, part of Federated States of Micronesia
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Cook Islands
Definition
Polynesia, free association w/ New Zealand
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Easter Island (Ropa Nui)
Definition
Polynesia, territory of Chile
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Guam
Definition
Micronesia, US territory
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Fiji
Definition
Melanesia
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Hawai'ian Islands
Definition
Polynesia (US state)
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Kiribati (Gilbert Islands)
Definition
Micronesia
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Marquesas
Definition
Polynesia, part of French Polynesia
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New Caledonia
Definition
Melanesia, special collectivity of France
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New Guinea
Definition
Melanesia, comprised of Papua New Guinea (independent) and Papua, (the western half) province of Indonesia
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Palau
Definition
Micronesia, part of the Caroline Islands
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Saipan
Definition
Micronesia, part of Northern Mariana Islands, commonwealth of the US
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Samoa (Western Samoa)
Definition
Polynesia
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Society Islands
Definition
Polynesia, part of French Polynesia
Includes Tahiti
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Solomon Islands
Definition
Melanesia
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Tokelau
Definition
Polynesia, territory of New Zealand
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Tonga
Definition
Polynesia
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Tuvalu (Ellice Islands)
Definition
Polynesia
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Tahiti
Definition
Polynesia, part of Society Islands in French Polynesia
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Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
Definition
Melanesia
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Polynesian islands include (12)
Definition
French Polynesia, American Samoa, Western Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Niue, Wallis + Fortuna, Tokulau, Hawaii, New Zealand, Easter Island
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Micronesian islands include
Definition
Palau, Guam, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Northern Marianas (Saipan, Mariana Islands), Kiribati, Nauru
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Melanesian islands include
Definition
Papua New Guinea, Papua, New Caledonia, Vanatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji
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Austronesian
Definition
second migration of peoples coming into New Guinea (Lapita people) who came from Indonesia
1. outrigger canoes
2. horticulture
3. pottery makers
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Non-Austronesian
Definition
language spoken in Australia and most of New Guinea
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Lapita people
Definition
first known Austronesian speakers; Melanesian
1. horticulturists
2. ocean-going sailors (sailed against current)
3. early ancestors of Polynesians
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Lapita pottery
Definition
"fingerprint" i.e. mark of the Lapita peoples found as evidence of Lapita migration route
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astral navigation
Definition
navigation using stars and constellations as guides
Mau Pialiag
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Hokule'a
Definition
reconstruction of ancient outrigger canoe used to travel from Hawaii to Tahiti in 1975 as celebration of Polynesian culture and heritage
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Mau Piailug
Definition
had a "star compass" (a sense of the night sky in his mind)
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Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)
Definition
Caroline Islands, Yap, Pohnpei
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French Polynesia
Definition
Overseas country of the French Republic
Marquesas Islands, Society Islands (Tahiti), Tuamotu Archipelago, Disappointment Islands
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Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI)
Definition
Micronesia
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outrigger canoes
Definition
canoes with 1 or 2 outriggers, works against lateral drift of currents or swells
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navigation
Definition
the ability to hold a course to a given destination
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globalization
Definition
a new form of social organization -- in an increasingly borderless world, flows of capital and new technologies are propelling people, goods, info and ideologies around globe in volumes and speeds never imagined
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The World System
Definition
based on ideas of sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein
a social system with boundaries, structures, member groups, rules of legitimization and coherence
started by colonization
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core (metropole)/periphery
Definition
core is large powerful capitalist nations, periphery was marginal areas with weak states
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McDonaldization
Definition
a loss of cultural diversity and a simultaneous increase in Western cultural hegemony
a homogenization of culture worldwide
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MIRAB microstates
Definition
Migration, Remittances, Aid, Bureaucracies
small-scale nation states can be characterized as based on these factors
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Remittances
Definition
out-migrators sending money back to country of origin
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Ethnic Revitalization Movements
Definition
social movement whose aim is the reassertion of traditional cultural identities and sovereignty
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Wallis and Futuna
Definition
Polynesia, French Overseas Collectivity
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