Pre-Columbian contact between the Americas and Oceania / Andrea Ballesteros - Danel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ballesteros - Danel, Andrea.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

America--Discovery and exploration--Pre-Columbian.

America.

Indians--First contact with other peoples.

Indians.

America--History--To 1810.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Abstract

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

1 Did Amerindians or Pacific Islanders Voyage Long Distances to and from the Americas Before 1492?

2 The Enigma About Amerindian Origins in the Sixteenth Century

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The Construction of Notions About the Pacific Ocean

2.3 Long-Distance Voyages Across the South Sea: Real or Imagined?

2.4 Fortuitous Eastward Voyages to the Americas

2.5 Túpac Yupanqui: An Inca Explorer in Oceania?

2.6 Dutch Conceptions About Amerindian Origins

2.7 The Blurred Early Ideas About Trans-Pacific Contact

3 Queen Moo from Chichén Itzá and the Lost Pacific Continent

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Changing Conceptions of the Pacific and the Americas and the Advent of Science

3.3 Speculations by Missionaries and Religious Scholars

Catholic Perspectives

Views by Anglophone Missionaries and Religious Scholars

3.4 The New York School and the Mormon Theory of Pacific Settlement

3.5 The Case of the Sunken Pacific Continent

3.6 The Convergence of Americanists and Oceanists

3.7 The Maximum Culmination of Ideas About Pre-Columbian Trans-Pacific Contact

4 Kumara, Skulls, Stone Clubs, and Voyages

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Ideas on Origins and Migrations

4.3 Material Culture and Cultural Parallels

Stone Clubs

Fishhooks

Clothing, Masks, Monumental Architecture, and Tangible Evidence

Vessels and Navigation

Comparable Cultural Practices

4.4 Plants, Languages, and Races

4.5 Biological Anthropology

4.6 The Establishment of Tangible and Cultural Evidence of Contact in the Nineteenth Century

5 The Children of the Sun

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Long-distance Cultural Dispersals

5.3 Religious and Linguistic Explanations of Contact

5.4 The International Congress of Americanists (ICA) and the Exploration of Ideas About Contact

5.5 Speculations About a Lost Pacific Continent

5.6 The Ventured Convergence of Tangible, Intangible, and Unproven Notions About Contact Until the 1950s

6 The Study of the Ancient Past of the Americas in the Twentieth Century

6.1 Introduction

6.2 The Convergence of Ideas About Cultural Circles in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

The Kulturkreislehre Movement

The Influence of European Scholars in the Americas

Giglioli

Imbelloni

Rivet

Ten Kate

Nordenskiöld

Täuber

6.3 Notions About Trans-Pacific Contact in Argentina and Chile

Argentina

Chile

'Spear Points' and Stone Clubs

Skulls and Chickens

6.4 Linguistic Comparisons

F. W. Christian

Pablo González Casanova

6.5 Additional Ideas on the Diffusion of Material Culture

Bark Cloth

Musical Instruments

6.6 Ideas on Sailing Vessels, Migrations, and Cultural Parallels

6.7 Theories on Sweet Potato Transfers

Notes:

6.8 Parasite Diffusion

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 24, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Ballesteros - Danel, Andrea Pre-Columbian Contact Between the Americas and Oceania

ISBN:

9783031648779

3031648773

Publisher Number:

90100369041

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