World History
Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific. Provides research information and historical facts about the traditional navigation skills handed down from generation to generation in the Micronesian Islands.
From the site:
Is there a primitive mentality essentiallydifferent from a civilized one?
Or do people learn and mentally organize their experience in similar ways in spite of differences in their cultures and in the content of what they have to learn?
We know that all people, if raised in the appropriate environment, prove capable of learning to speak any language and to think and operate effectively in the context of any culture. But what about different people's traditional bodies of specialized lore? Are they organized in similar ways, or not? Cognitive psychologists are interested in understanding how specialists mentally process and store their knowledge so that they can retrieve it as needed.
Traditional navigators of the Central Caroline Islands provide a case in point. The Carolinian art of navigation includes a sizable body of knowledge developed to meet the needs of ocean voyaging for distances of up to several hundred miles among the tiny islands and atolls of Micronesia. Lacking writing, local navigators have had to commit to memory their knowledge of the stars, sailing directions, seamarks, and how to read the waves and clouds to determine currents and predict weather.
- History Of Tokelau
History of Tokelau. This is a brief essay on the history of Tokelau which is a group of three atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand. It is a territory of New Zealand. Wikipedia notes, "Tokelau is a non-self-governing...
- History Of The Northern Mariana Islands
History of the Northern Mariana Islands. This is a short introduction to the history of the American territory known as the Northern Mariana Islands. Wikipedia notes, "The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) is a commonwealth in political...
- History Of Papua New Guinea
History of Papua New Guinea. This is a good summary overview of the history of the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea. It is probably just me but I think they have a neat flag. From the site: Archeological evidence indicates that humans arrived...
- History Of Marshall Islands
History of Marshall Islands. This is a good essay on the history of the Marshall Islands. From the site: Little is clearly understood about the prehistory of the Marshall Islands. Researchers agree on little more than that successive waves of migratory...
- History Of Kiribati
History of Kiribati. This is a short but well written essay which gives an overview to the history of Kiribati. From the site: The I-Kiribati people settled what would become known as the Gilbert Islands between 1000 and 1300 AD. Subsequent invasions...
World History
Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific
Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific. Provides research information and historical facts about the traditional navigation skills handed down from generation to generation in the Micronesian Islands.
From the site:
Is there a primitive mentality essentiallydifferent from a civilized one?
Or do people learn and mentally organize their experience in similar ways in spite of differences in their cultures and in the content of what they have to learn?
We know that all people, if raised in the appropriate environment, prove capable of learning to speak any language and to think and operate effectively in the context of any culture. But what about different people's traditional bodies of specialized lore? Are they organized in similar ways, or not? Cognitive psychologists are interested in understanding how specialists mentally process and store their knowledge so that they can retrieve it as needed.
Traditional navigators of the Central Caroline Islands provide a case in point. The Carolinian art of navigation includes a sizable body of knowledge developed to meet the needs of ocean voyaging for distances of up to several hundred miles among the tiny islands and atolls of Micronesia. Lacking writing, local navigators have had to commit to memory their knowledge of the stars, sailing directions, seamarks, and how to read the waves and clouds to determine currents and predict weather.
- History Of Tokelau
History of Tokelau. This is a brief essay on the history of Tokelau which is a group of three atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand. It is a territory of New Zealand. Wikipedia notes, "Tokelau is a non-self-governing...
- History Of The Northern Mariana Islands
History of the Northern Mariana Islands. This is a short introduction to the history of the American territory known as the Northern Mariana Islands. Wikipedia notes, "The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) is a commonwealth in political...
- History Of Papua New Guinea
History of Papua New Guinea. This is a good summary overview of the history of the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea. It is probably just me but I think they have a neat flag. From the site: Archeological evidence indicates that humans arrived...
- History Of Marshall Islands
History of Marshall Islands. This is a good essay on the history of the Marshall Islands. From the site: Little is clearly understood about the prehistory of the Marshall Islands. Researchers agree on little more than that successive waves of migratory...
- History Of Kiribati
History of Kiribati. This is a short but well written essay which gives an overview to the history of Kiribati. From the site: The I-Kiribati people settled what would become known as the Gilbert Islands between 1000 and 1300 AD. Subsequent invasions...