Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances; Listening Once Again

Needham, Joseph, and Lu, Gwei-Djen

ISBN 10: 9971950863 / ISBN 13: 9789971950866

Published by World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, 1985

About this Item

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 106 p. Audience: General/trade.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances; Listening Once Again
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9971950863
• ISBN 13: 9789971950866
• Binding: Hard cover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine. No dust jacket.

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Synopsis

This monograph is a review of the present state of knowledge of the relationships and consequences of over 25 centuries of interactions between the Amerindian and Asean Circum-Pacific regions. A fascinating, special case of previous work by two Asianists on similar themes of the Euro-Asian Continental land mass, providing the theoretical framework within which the complexities of cultural cross-pattern are studied. The subjects dicussed individually begin with the elements of recording and writing, continuing through the arts, religion, folklore and an eventual examination of the natural sciences and technology. There is also a discussion in this context of evidence from and the relevance of ethno-botany, ethno-zoology and ethnoThe underlying thesis of this volume is the relative independence and powerfully original development and evolution of Amerindian cultures and societies in Central and South America.-helminthology.

Review

"A marvelous book on the historiography of Asian influences on Amerindian cultures." Choice, 1986 "This book probes a subject that still awaits further exploration and reading it is a rewarding experience because of the insights it reveals and the challenges it delineates for further historical and anthropological studies." E-Tu Zen Sun Annals of Science