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Journal articles on the topic "Polynesians. Indians"

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Dennison, John, Jules Kieser, and Peter Herbison. "The Incidence and Expression of the Subcondylar Tubercle of the Mandible in Early Polynesians, Modern Indians and Modern Europeans." Anthropologischer Anzeiger 63, no. 2 (May 23, 2005): 129–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/63/2005/129.

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Dudeja, V., A. Misra, R. M. Pandey, G. Devina, G. Kumar, and N. K. Vikram. "BMI does not accurately predict overweight in Asian Indians in northern India." British Journal of Nutrition 86, no. 1 (July 2001): 105–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/bjn2001382.

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Asian Indians are at high risk for the development of atherosclerosis and related complications, possibly initiated by higher body fat (BF). The present study attempted to establish appropriate cut-off levels of the BMI for defining overweight, considering percentage BF in healthy Asian Indians in northern India as the standard. A total of 123 healthy volunteers (eighty-six males aged 18–75 years and thirty-seven females aged 20–69 years) participated in the study. Clinical examination and anthropometric measurements were performed, and percentage BF was calculated. BMI for males was 21·4 (SD 3·7) KG/M2 AND FOR FEMALES WAS 23·3 (sd 5·5) kg/m2. Percentage BF was 21·3 (sd 7·6) in males and 35·4 (sd 5·0) in females. A comparison of BF data among Caucasians, Blacks, Polynesians and Asian ethnic groups (e.g. immigrant Chinese) revealed conspicuous differences. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis showed a low sensitivity and negative predictive value of the conventional cut-off value of the BMI (25 kg/m2) in identifying subjects with overweight as compared to the cut-off value based on percentage BF (males >25, females >30). This observation is particularly obvious in females, resulting in substantial misclassification. Based on the ROC curve, a lower cut-off value of the BMI (21·5 kg/m2 for males and 19·0 kg/m2 for females) displayed the optimal sensitivity and specificity, and less misclassification in identification of subjects with high percentage BF. Furthermore, a novel obesity variable, BF:BMI, was tested and should prove useful for interethnic comparison of body composition. In the northern Indian population, the conventional cut-off level of the BMI underestimates overweight and obesity when percentage BF is used as the standard to define overweight. These preliminary findings, if confirmed in a larger number of subjects and with the use of instruments having a higher accuracy of BF assessment, would be crucial for planning and the prevention and treatment of various obesity-related metabolic diseases in the Asian Indian population.
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Trautmann, Thomas R. "Discovering Aryan and Dravidian in British India." Historiographia Linguistica 31, no. 1 (July 30, 2004): 33–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.31.1.04tra.

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Summary British India was an especially fruitful site for the development of historical linguistics. Four major, unanticipated discoveries were especially associated with the East India Company: those of Indo-European, Dravidian, Malayo-Polynesian and the Indo-Aryan nature of Romani. It is argued that they came about in British India because the European tradition of language analysis met and combined with aspects of the highly sophisticated Indian language analysis. The discoveries of Indo-European and Dravidian, the subject of this article, were connected with the British-Indian cities of Calcutta and Madras, respectively, and the conditions under which they came about are examined. The production of new knowledge in British India is generally viewed through the lens of post-colonial theory, and is seen as having been driven by the needs of colonial governance. This essay sketches out a different way of looking at aspects of colonial knowledge that fall outside the colonial utility framework. It views these discoveries and their consequences as emergent products of two distinct traditions of language study which the British and the Indians brought to the colonial connection. If this is so, it follows that some aspects of modernism tacitly absorb Indian knowledge, specifically Indian language analysis. Indian phonology, among other things, is an example of this process.
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Braun, Norbert A., Jean-François Butaud, Jean-Pierre Bianchini, Birgit Kohlenberg, Franz-Josef Hammerschmidt, Manfred Meier, and Phila Raharivelomanana. "Eastern Polynesian Sandalwood Oil (Santalum insulare Bertero ex A. DC.) – a Detailed Investigation." Natural Product Communications 2, no. 6 (June 2007): 1934578X0700200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1934578x0700200615.

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Three qualities of Eastern Polynesian sandalwood oil were analyzed using GC and GC-MS. Sixty-six constituents were identified: 5 monoterpenes, 58 sesquiterpenes and 3 others. The main constituents of the essential oils were ( Z)-α-santalol and ( Z)-β-santalol. Beside chemical composition, olfactory evaluation and chiral gas chromatography of β- and epi-β-bisabolol isomers confirmed the close relationship of Eastern Polynesian to East Indian and New Caledonian sandalwood oil.
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Ginter, Earl J., Ann Glauser, and Bert O. Richmond. "Loneliness, Social Support, and Anxiety among Two South Pacific Cultures." Psychological Reports 74, no. 3 (June 1994): 875–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1994.74.3.875.

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This study was designed to investigate the relations among two sources of social support, various aspects of loneliness, and anxiety from two different cultural groups. One group was comprised of Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian people ( n = 54) and the other of East Indian and Caucasian people ( n = 27). As hypothesized, significant correlations (direct and inverse) between scores on a measure of social support and loneliness were found and a positive one between anxiety and loneliness.
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Singh, Anurudh K., Kirti Singh, and P. I. Peter. "Revisiting the origin of the domestication of noni (Morinda citrifolia L.)." Plant Genetic Resources 9, no. 4 (October 12, 2011): 549–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479262111000864.

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Based on the distribution, molecular similarity and use of Morinda citrifolia L., and occurrence of a wild Morinda species, Southeast Asia and Micronesia have been suggested to be the places where noni originated. The present article discusses the indices used by Vavilov and subsequent authorities on the origin of crop plants to argue that South Asia (Southeast India) has a greater probability of being the centre of domestication/origin for noni than Southeast Asia or Micronesia. The basic reasoning is that economically important plant cannot originate without richness in biodiversity and ingenuity of local people. India with rich floristic diversity, one of the centres of origin of crop plants with a natural distribution of Morinda species, including M. citrifolia L. and its immediate ancestors, has the oldest reference of occurrence, use and cultivation (Vedic literature); therefore, it appears to be the more probable centre of noni's origin. The ancient history of the expansion of Indian culture, religion and trade to Southeast Asian countries corroborate the possible role of Indians in the introduction of noni or knowledge regarding its value to Southeast Asia, from which it was carried to Micronesia and Polynesia, which provided a more favourable environmental niche for perpetuation and use.
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Dash, Michael. "Martinique is (not) a Polynesian island: detours of French West Indian identity." International Journal of Francophone Studies 11, no. 1 and 2 (September 2010): 123–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.11.1and2.123/1.

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Dash, Michael. "Martinique is (not) a Polynesian island: detours of French West Indian identity." International Journal of Francophone Studies 11, no. 1 (June 16, 2008): 123–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.11.1and2.123_1.

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Shepherd, Bart, Tyler A. Y. Phelps, Hudson T. Pinheiro, Claudia R. Rocha, and Luiz A. Rocha. "Two new species of Plectranthias (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems in the tropical Central Pacific." ZooKeys 941 (June 16, 2020): 145–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.941.50243.

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Two new species of Plectranthias perchlets are described, collected from mesophotic coral ecosystems in French Polynesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, in the tropical Central Pacific. Plectranthias polygoniussp. nov. was collected at a depth of 105 m in Tahiti, French Polynesia, and 120 m in Maloelap Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. It was also observed in Moorea and Rangiroa (French Polynesia), and at Majuro and Erikub Atolls, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Plectranthias hinanosp. nov. was collected at a depth of 90–98 m in Tahiti, French Polynesia, and observed in Moorea. The barcode fragment of the cytochrome oxidase I gene of Plectranthias polygoniussp. nov. does not closely match any published sequence of Plectranthias, with approximately 15% uncorrected divergence from several species. Plectranthias polygoniussp. nov. can be distinguished from all of its congeners by coloration and morphology. The barcode fragment of the COI gene of Plectranthias hinanosp. nov. is closest to Plectranthias bennetti, with 5.4% uncorrected divergence. Plectranthias hinanosp. nov. is also distinguished from all of its congeners by morphology, and a coloration that includes two indistinct black spots along the base of the dorsal-fin, and transparent yellow dorsal and anal fin membranes. With this publication, the genus Plectranthias now comprises 58 valid species, with representatives from tropical to temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. These two new discoveries add to the growing body of research highlighting the rich biodiversity of mesophotic ecosystems.
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F. Recher, H. "Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia." Pacific Conservation Biology 9, no. 3 (2003): 234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc030234.

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FEW taxa have suffered at the expansion of humanity to the extent of the birds of Pacific Islands. Of the 130 or so birds to become extinct as a consequence of European exploration and colonization of the Pacific, most were island birds and most were flightless rails. Not so well understood is the scale of extinctions that accompanied pre-European colonization of the Pacific islands. Only now is the paleontological record revealing the richness of the lost Pacific avifauna much of which can be put on a par with the loss of moas from New Zealand and the Dodo Raphus cucullatus from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Polynesians. Indians"

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Hulme-Beaman, Ardern. "Exploring the human-mediated dispersal of commensal small mammals using dental morphology : Rattus exulans and Rattus rattus." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=215116.

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A handful of rat species are among the most pervasive mammal species across the globe, primarily because of their close relationship with humans. The processes involved in this relationship, commensalism, are described in detail. Two rat species, Rattus rattus and Rattus exulans, are the focus of this thesis and their biology and taxonomy are described and discussed. Their modern distributions are the direct result of some of the earliest and most extensive human migration events in human history. The archaeology of the Pacific and Indian Oceans is described and migration vectors and spheres of interaction are identified. These possible patterns of human migration and exchange networks provide testable hypotheses that can be investigated using the subject rat species as proxies for long distance human movement. Modern and archaeological tooth samples of R. exulans and modern samples of R. rattus are analysed using geometric morphometrics. The results reveal important aspects of human migration and differences between these species' biology. R. exulans was likely to have been transported out of Island Southeast Asia at a very early date. Human colonisation of the Pacific occurred in a series of complex pulses and pauses that are clearly reflected in the R. exulans data. For the first time it is possible to demonstrate, within one dataset, the multiple origins and directions of colonisation across the Pacific. The R. rattus data provides a striking comparison, showing very different results that allude to a different level of modern gene-­‐ flow and therefore a difference in behaviour and biology. The results provide a framework for comparison with future archaeological material. The results presented and hypotheses raised have immediate application to existing archaeological material and areas of interest. Further commensal species should be examined following similar lines of questioning as applied here.
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Books on the topic "Polynesians. Indians"

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Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian contacts with the New World. Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2010.

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Crawfurd, John. History of the Indian Archipelago: Containing an account of the manners, arts, languages, religions, institutions, and commerce of its inhabitants. Delhi: B.R. Pub. Corp., 1985.

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Crawfurd, John. History of the Indian archipelago: Containing an account of the manners, arts, languages, religions, institutions, and commerce of its inhabitants : with maps and engravings. Delhi: Low Price Publications, 1993.

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The children of Abo Tani in India, Fiji, and Polynesia: An account of the migration of the Indian dānavasa and the Nāgas, and their contribution to the efflorescence of culture in Fiji and Polynesia. Calcutta: Self Employment Bureau (Publications), 2000.

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Hale, Horatio Emmons. Ethnography and philology. London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1997.

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L, Kirk R., and Szathmary Emöke J. E, eds. Out of Asia: Peopling the Americas and the Pacific. Canberra: Journal of Pacific History, 1985.

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Lobscheid, William. Evidence of the Affinity of the Polynesians and American Indians with the Chinese and Other Nations of Asia: Derived from the Language, Legends & History of Those Races. Adamant Media Corporation, 2004.

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Native peoples. Benchmark Education Co, 2002.

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Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Anderson, Greg. Other Ways of Being Human. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190886646.003.0007.

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To open Part Two (“The Many Real Worlds of the Past”), the book begins its ethical case for an ontological turn in history by establishing the past’s extraordinary ontological diversity. Drawing on a lengthy inventory of ethnographies and histories, the chapter adduces evidence for non-modern ontologies from a broad range of environments, including precolonial Mexico, India, Bali, and Polynesia, medieval Europe, Ming China, and the lifeworlds of various indigenous peoples in Amazonia, South East Asia, Melanesia, and Africa. The cumulative result is a panorama of ontological alterities, indicating wide historical variabilities in the essences and foundations of human existence, in the ways humans experience, say, personhood and subjectivity, kinship and sociality, materiality and ideality, mortality and rationality, humanity and divinity, and the sources, means, and ends of life itself. Yet the tools of our conventional historicism cannot account for these variabilities, since they all presuppose the truth of an ontology that prevails only in our capitalist modernity.
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Book chapters on the topic "Polynesians. Indians"

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Mitchell, Peter. "The Old World: Southern Africa and Australasia." In Horse Nations. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198703839.003.0014.

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So far we have seen how Indigenous societies in North and South America exploited the opportunities created by the horse’s reintroduction in the aftermath of Columbus’ voyage of 1492. But the Americas were not the only part of the world to which Europeans brought the horse. In southern Africa other members of the genus Equus, the plains and mountain zebras, were long established, but before European settlement the only animal ridden there—and then very little—was the ox. Australia, on the other hand, though rich in marsupials, had no purely terrestrial placental mammals except people and dogs. Finding a vacant ecological niche, horses and other animals introduced by Europeans quickly established themselves in the wild. Much the same holds for New Zealand, which had no mammals at all (save bats) until Polynesians settled it less than four hundred years before the first European visitor, Abel Tasman, in 1642. Southern Africa, Australia, and New Zealand therefore all gave new, and different, opportunities to horses. How their Indigenous human populations interacted with the new arrival also varied. In southern Africa horses encountered some societies that had domestic livestock of their own, others who combined livestock with cereal cultivation, and yet others (those of greatest interest here) who were hunters and gatherers. In Australia, only the last of these variations was present, while in New Zealand, although most Māori did grow crops, dogs were the only domestic animals. The first Europeans to visit southern Africa were the Portuguese. Rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 they completed the circumnavigation of the continent’s southern tip ten years later to reach India. Portugal did not, however, establish settlements in what eventually became South Africa, preferring to sail round it to reach Mozambique. For over a century its disinterest was shared by the other Europeans who occasionally used Cape Town’s Table Bay or other spots along the coast to take on fresh water or trade for livestock from Indigenous Khoe herders.
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Nabhan, Gary P. "Cultural Dispersal of Plants and Reptiles." In Island Biogeography in the Sea of Cortés II. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195133462.003.0022.

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The equilibrium theory of island biogeography (MacArthur and Wilson 1967) gives little attention to the human forces that have contributed to shape the biota of archipelagos. Most of the studies that have been done to test the theory, however, concentrated mostly on natural forces and less on the ancient influences of sea-faring cultures on island biodiversity. Although many biologists have followed MacArthur and Wilson’s lead by charting the natural processes shaping the island biogeography of the midriff islands in the Sea of Cortés (Soulé and Sloan 1966; Case and Cody 1983), the cultural dispersal of native plants and animals across the gulf has hardly been taken into account in these pattern analyses of the region’s biota. Nevertheless, new opportunities have emerged. Analyses made possible by novel genetic tools can now be combined with recent revelations of oral history from Seri Indian seafarers who have frequented the midriff islands and who know of their ancestors’ activities on the islands. Archaeologists have found indigenous remains on San Esteban, Ángel de la Guarda, San Lorenzo Norte and Sur, and Tiburón, with dateable occupation sequences on San Esteban for a minimum of 350 years (Bowen 2000). We can now begin to reconcile data from cultural geography, genetics, and biogeography to track cultural dispersal with new precision. A cohesive but curious story has begun to emerge from this unlikely partnership of genetic analyses performed in laboratories and oral history documentation in the field: historic seafarers of this arid region have carried with them flora and fauna that became established on islands other than those accessible by natural routes of dispersal (Grismer 1994; Petren and Case 1996, 1997; Nabhan in press). This should come as no surprise to scientists who read beyond their own area of interest: similar cultural dispersal dynamics have been documented in Polynesia and Melanesia (McKeown 1978; Fisher 1997; Austin 1999) and in Central America and the Caribbean (Bennett 1992; Case 1996). Factoring indigenous cultural dispersal into island biogeography has led to very different views of biotic origins and migrations than those offered by a purely biological perspective.
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