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| ring of volcanic activity and earthquakes due to movement around borders of Pacific tectonic plate |
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| Micronesia, part of Federated States of Micronesia |
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| Polynesia, free association w/ New Zealand |
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| Polynesia, territory of Chile |
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| Kiribati (Gilbert Islands) |
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| Polynesia, part of French Polynesia |
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| Melanesia, special collectivity of France |
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| Melanesia, comprised of Papua New Guinea (independent) and Papua, (the western half) province of Indonesia |
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| Micronesia, part of the Caroline Islands |
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| Micronesia, part of Northern Mariana Islands, commonwealth of the US |
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Polynesia, part of French Polynesia
Includes Tahiti |
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| Polynesia, territory of New Zealand |
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| Polynesia, part of Society Islands in French Polynesia |
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| Polynesian islands include (12) |
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| 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 |
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| Palau, Guam, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Northern Marianas (Saipan, Mariana Islands), Kiribati, Nauru |
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| Melanesian islands include |
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| Papua New Guinea, Papua, New Caledonia, Vanatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji |
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second migration of peoples coming into New Guinea (Lapita people) who came from Indonesia
1. outrigger canoes
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3. pottery makers |
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| language spoken in Australia and most of New Guinea |
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first known Austronesian speakers; Melanesian
1. horticulturists
2. ocean-going sailors (sailed against current)
3. early ancestors of Polynesians |
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| "fingerprint" i.e. mark of the Lapita peoples found as evidence of Lapita migration route |
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navigation using stars and constellations as guides
Mau Pialiag |
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| 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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| had a "star compass" (a sense of the night sky in his mind) |
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| Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) |
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| Caroline Islands, Yap, Pohnpei |
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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) |
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| canoes with 1 or 2 outriggers, works against lateral drift of currents or swells |
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| the ability to hold a course to a given destination |
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| 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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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 |
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| core is large powerful capitalist nations, periphery was marginal areas with weak states |
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a loss of cultural diversity and a simultaneous increase in Western cultural hegemony
a homogenization of culture worldwide |
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Migration, Remittances, Aid, Bureaucracies
small-scale nation states can be characterized as based on these factors |
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| out-migrators sending money back to country of origin |
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| Ethnic Revitalization Movements |
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| social movement whose aim is the reassertion of traditional cultural identities and sovereignty |
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| Polynesia, French Overseas Collectivity |
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