He leaves room, for instance, to chart
precontact climate change and its effects on European colonialism.
These newspapers extend our knowledge of historical environmental events and natural disasters back into the early nineteenth century and deeper into
precontact times.
Though sexy, loud, occasionally X-rated and, frankly, fun, the ball was also underpinned by a triple confrontation: with the "Caucasian spaces" of Auckland's art world (Artspace is both literally and figuratively a white cube); with central Auckland's professional, middle-class gay scene (many of the performers came from workingclass backgrounds in the city's southern and western suburbs); and, perhaps most important, with the group's own community, as a call to "decolonize." For FAFSWAG, the moralizing imposition of Christianity in the Pacific islands was a kind of circuit breaker: a colonizing tool that disconnected Pacific people from
precontact belief systems and sexual frameworks, a rupture reinforced by economic migration to Auckland.
Jamie describes their
precontact life in villages, the foods they foraged from these woods, the days-long ceremonies called potlatches, in which hosts gave away many of their possessions to guests.
But we don't have knowledge of
precontact population,' Acabado said.
Ancestry and lineage tie tribes to their
precontact existence and justify their unique place in our constitutional order.
Clinically the patient showed swelling and trismus, tenderness at the mandibular angle, palpation bilaterally, and posttraumatic malocclusion (left posterior
precontact).
Bamforth, "Indigenous People, Indigenous Violence:
Precontact Warfare on the North American Great Plains," Man 29, no.
Augustine
precontact; as well as Native Hawaiian structures on the Big Island; and some of the most remarkable archaeological remains on Earth.
Given what we know about
precontact Indian attitudes toward spirituality and diplomacy, it is more likely that the sachems were seeking and expecting pragmatic benefits associated with certain spiritual practices and beliefs.
Precontact Oceania offers a unique laboratory for the study of human behaviors, including leadership, violence, and warfare.
Part 1 deals with the region's geography and ecology, the
precontact indigenous societies and the Mediterranean antecedents to the sugar-and-slavery complex.