Maritime adaptations of the Pacific : [IXth International congress of anthropological and ethnological sciences; Chicago, Ill., 1973

This volume looks at current issues in Intercultural Pragmatics from an applied perspective. The content is organized in three sections that encompass the primary applications of intercultural exchanges: the linguistic and cognitive domain, the social and cultural domain, and the discourse and stylistics domain. The chapters analyze real language situations in English, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Filipino or Polish. General Editor’s Preface Introduction The Effects of Social Change on Marine Technology in a Pacific Atoll Community Some Studies of the Influences of Prehistoric Human Predation on Marine Animal Population Dynamics Problems of the Origin of Ancient Sea Hunters’ Cultures in the Northern Pacific Cultural and Social Change in the Modes of Ownership of Stone Tidal Weirs Early Maritime Cultural Orientations in Prehistoric Chile Fishing Effort in the Aboriginal Fisheries of the Santa Barbara Region, California: An Ethnohistorical Appraisal Technological Continuity and Change within a Persistent Maritime Adaptation: Kodiak Island, Alaska On the Distribution of Kuskowagamuit Fishcamps: A Study in the Ecology of Adaptive Radiation Traditional and Contemporary Fishing Cultures on the Soviet Pacific Coast Chinese Fishermen in Hong Kong and in Malaysia Prehistoric Fauna and Economy in the Solomon Islands The Risks of Dietary Change: A Pacific Atoll Example Marine Fishing in Archaeological Perspective: Techniques for Determining Fishing Strategies Biographical Notes Index of Names Index of Subjects