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Vijayanagara
Reading on VijayanaFör Further
gara: A.L. Dallapiccola, editor, Vijayanagara: City and Empire (Steiner Verlag,
Wiesbaden 1985), brings together much
new scholarship on the period; D. Devakunjari, Hampi (Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi, reprint), is one
of the two best guidebooks to the site;
John Fritz, George Micheli and M.S.
Nagaraja Rao, Where Kings and Gods
Meet : The Royal Centre at Vijayanagara
(University of Arizona Press, Hicson,
AZ 1985), is the most complete publication of new work at the site; A.H.
Longhurst, Hampi Ruins , Described
and Illustrated (Asian Educational Service, New Delhi 1981), is the other of
the two best guidebooks; George Micheli
and Vasundhara Filliozat, editors, Splendours of the Vijayanagara Empire:
Hampi (Marg Publications, Bombay
1981), is illustrated with many new
plans, drawings and photographs;
Robert Sewell, A Forgotten Empire
(Asian Educational Service, New Delhi
1980, reprint of 1900 first edition), provides the basic historical context of the
period and translations of descriptions
of the city by Italian and Portuguese
visitors.
Ships of Discovery
For Further Reading on the Age of
Exploration and Discovery: Benjamin
Keen, translator and editor, The Life of
Admiral Christopher Columbus (by his
Son , Ferdinand ), (Rutgers University
Press, New Brunswick, NJ 1959); S.E.
Morison, The European Discovery of
America: The Southern Voyages, 14921616 (Oxford University Press, New
York, NY 1974) and (editor and translator), Journals and Other Documents
on the Life and Voyages of Christopher
Columbus (Heritage Press, New York,
NY 1963); J.H. Parry, The Age of Reconnaisance (World Publishing Co.,
New York, NY 1963) and The Discovery
of the Sea (Dial Press, New York, NY
1974); B. Penrose, TYaveland Discovery
in the Renaissance (Harvard University
Press, Cambridge, MA 1955); C.O.
Sauer, The Early Spanish Main (University of California Press, Berkeley,CA
1966); L.A. Vigneras, The Discovery of
South America and the Andalusian Voyages (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL 1976).
Tlkopia
For Further Reading on Tikopia: Sir
Raymond Firth, History and Traditions
of Tikopia (The Polynesian Society,
Memoir 33, Wellington, New Zealand
1961), discusses oral traditions; his We,
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The Tikopia (George Allen and Unwin,
London 1936),masterfully describes the
contemporary culture of Tikopia;
Patrick V. Kirch and D.E. Yen, Tikopia:
The Prehistory and Ecology of a Polynesian Outlier (B.P. Bishop Museum
Bulletin 238, 1982).
For more information on the archaeology and prehistory of the Polynesian
Outliers: Patrick V. Kirch, "The Polynesian Outliers: Continuity, Change,
and Replacement," in Robert Kirk and
Emoke Szathmary, editors, Out of Asia:
Peopling the Americas and the Pacific
(Australian National University, Canberra 1985); Patrick V. Kirch, The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms
(Cambridge University Press, Cam- „
bridge 1984), is a scholarly in-depth
study of Polynesian archaeology.
The Shin'enkan

Collection

For Further Reading on Edo period
cultural history: Charles C. Dunn,
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan
(Charles E. Tattle Co., Rutland, VT
1972), gives an excellent description of
the four classes in the Edo period; G.B.
Sansom, Japan: A Short Cultural History (rev. ed., Appleton-Century-Crofts,
New York, NY 1962), is still the best
introduction.
On Japanese art: The Heibonsha
Survey of Japanese Art (31 volumes,
Weatherhill/Heibonsha, New York, NY
1972).
The Duckfoot

Site

Reading on Anasazi
For Further
culture: David Breternitz, Arthur H.
Röhn and Elizabeth A. Morris, Prehistoric Centuries of the Mesa VerdeRegion
(Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ 1974), describes Anasazi ceramics; John O. Brew, The Archaeology
of Alkali Ridge , Southeastern Utah
(Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Cambridge, MA 1946),is the
classic early report; Steve E. Cassels,
The Archaeology of Colorado (Johnson,
Boulder, CO 1983), is a general summary; William D. Lipe, "The Southwest," in Ancient North Americans ,
Jesse D. Jennings, editor (Freeman
Press, San Francisco, CA 1983),provides
an overview and summary; Robert H.
Lister and Florence Lister, Anasazi Pottery (University of New Mexico Press,
Albuquerque, NM 1978), supplies photographs and descriptions of the major
pottery types; Arthur H. Röhn, Cultural
Change and Continuity in Chapin Mesa
(The Regents' Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 1977), is a detailed summary
of the Anasazi occupation in Mesa Verde
I
National Park.
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