front cover of Early Observations of Marquesan Culture, 1595–1813
Early Observations of Marquesan Culture, 1595–1813
Edwin N. Ferdon
University of Arizona Press, 1993
The Marquesas Islands of the South Pacific have been inhabited by Polynesian peoples since around A.D. 300 but were not visited by Europeans until 1595. Ferdon has drawn on the records of these early visitors to paint a broad picture of Marquesan social organization, religion, material culture, and daily life.
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front cover of Early Tahiti As the Explorers Saw It, 1767–1797
Early Tahiti As the Explorers Saw It, 1767–1797
Edwin N. Ferdon
University of Arizona Press, 1981
For thirty years before the coming of the European missionaries, European explorers were able to observe Tahitian society as it had existed for centuries. Now Edwin Ferdon, Polynesian archaeologist and veteran of Thor Heyerdah's expedition to Easter Island, has interwoven their records to show us in fascinating detail what that society was like.
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front cover of Tahitians
Tahitians
Mind and Experience in the Society Islands
Robert I. Levy llustrated by Pierre Heyman
University of Chicago Press, 1975
This seminal work in several fields—person-centered anthropology, comparative psychology, and social history—documents the inner life of the Tahitians with sensitivity and insight. At the same time Levy reveals the ways in which private and public worlds interact. Tahitians is an ethnography focused on private but culturally organized behavior resulting in a wealth of material for the understanding of the interaction among historical, cultural, and personal spheres.

"This is a unique addition to anthropological literature. . . . No review could substitute for reading it."—Margaret Mead, American Anthropologist
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