PACIFIC TRAVELERS

Charlie Urbanowicz(Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, CSU, Chico)

and

Carol "Sadie" Urbanowicz (Accomplice)

[curbanowicz@csuchico.eduor csurbanowicz@gmail.com]

This page printedfrom http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/ANTHROFORUMSPRING2012.html

12 April 2012

ABSTRACT:

Today'spresentation provides some information on our travels in the Pacific since 1970, some cruises we have both lectured on since 2004, as well as information on how the indigenous inhabitants of various Pacific Islands arrived at their various locations.

SUMMARYSTATEMENT:

The last Forum presentation made was on December 10, 2009, entitled "Final Words and Cruising IntoRetirement" (http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/ANTHFORUMFALL2009.html). Itis safe to say that academics, even retired ones, never really have a"final" word on any subject!

That particular presentation was an individual one and I am delighted to share today's Forum with my best friend and wife, Sadie, so we can make a joint-presentation on "Pacific Travelers" (discussing, briefly, some of our own travels and how the islanders came to inhabit the largest geographic feature on this planet:  namely,the Pacific Ocean).

As I wrote in December 2009, the very first Forum was made by (now Professor Emeritus) Turhon Muradin fall 1973 and I did thesecond Anthropology Forum in November 1973 and this is actually my 37th Forum presentation in almost 40years! 

For all of my public presentations I try to have a "piece of paper" for all in attendance, to provide something to write on!  Sadie and I carry on with this "tradition" when welecture and at http://www.csuchico.edu/~curbanowicz/OosterdamMarch2012List.htmlyou will find the "Reading List" for a cruise we recently completedfrom San Diego to Hawai'i (and return). This list is based on a much larger bibliography that I have beenworking on for decades and that may be viewed at http://www.csuchico.edu/~curbanowicz/CruiseReferences.html.  An additional "Pacific" webpage that might be of interest to you is http://www.csuchico.edu/~curbanowicz/syllabi/SYL_373-FA2007.html[Guidebook for PacificCultures, Anthropology 373, Fall 2007].

Sadie's recommended reading: W. Arthur Whistler, 2009, Plants of the Canoe People:  An Ethnobotanical Voyage ThroughPolynesia (Kaua'i:  National Tropical Botanical Garden).

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Because of the nature (or is it culture?) of the World Wide Web, this web page contains more information then the handout distributed on 12 April 2012, to wit, specifically:

http://www.csuchico.edu/~curbanowicz/FSep-30-93.html [PEOPLES & CULTURES OF THE PACIFIC: Okeania est omnis divisa in partes tres]

http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/PacificWAMLApril2004.html [MAPPING THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC: ISLANDERS AND OTHERS (INCLUDING COOK AND DARWIN)]

http://www.csuchico.edu/~curbanowicz/Tahiti2005.html[TAHITI: FROM 1971 TO 2004/2005!]

http://www.csuchico.edu/~curbanowicz/TahitiAndEuropeansFa2004.html/[EUROPEANS IN TAHITI: FROM COOK TO GAUGUIN]

http://www.csuchico.edu/~curbanowicz/Forum/Dec1991.html [OPERATION HAWAI'I: PRELUDE TO PEARL HARBOR]

http://www.csuchico.edu/~curbanowicz/WorldWarIIEnds2005.html [WORLD WAR II ENDS!]

AND PLEASE SEE: