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Перевод: Polynesia

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Полинезия

Тезаурус:

1. Meanwhile, political leaders in French Polynesia called on France to say what it intended to do to ease the economic and social consequences of the suspension.
2. At the time, I felt it was no bad thing, for it helped intensify that curious brooding quality which is such an important element in so many tropical landscapes, and especially those of Polynesia.
3. Eliot instances the co-ordination of different types of education in "the highly organized societies of Polynesia".
4. Courtesy of the UN, which paid her a handsome tax-free salary, she travelled widely, visiting exotic spots like Polynesia, Mauritius and the New Hebrides.
5. This point has been shown again and again; it is clear from the excellent descriptions of production activities which we have of peoples such as the Tikopia of Polynesia described by Firth 1939 or of the Bemba of Africa by Audrey Richards 1939.
6. Finally I saw shapes of valleys, hills, crags, the white flash of waterfalls and then after Bill Robins lent me his binoculars, even houses, mostly thatched with palms or with roofs of red corrugated iron, the trademark of Polynesia, with the occasional roof of startling white.
7. HENDERSON ISLAND - a tiny British territory on the outskirts of eastern Polynesia - is one of the last remaining undisturbed islands in the South Pacific.
8. It was on the basis of this kind of observation that Morgan decided that there once existed in Polynesia a social order when sexual relations within one generation were so unspecific that all men of the ascending generation were "fathers" and all women of the ascending generation were "mothers".
9. One such example given is Polynesia, and the evidence depends on the fact that in Polynesian kinship terminology, only differences of generation and sex are recognized, so that all males of the generation directly preceding one's own are referred to by one and the same word, which was glossed by Morgan as "father"; similarly, all females of this same generation are referred to one term, which can be glossed as "mother".
10. But they are not at all the same, being invariably grouped into three - Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia - on the basis of complicated formulae relating to the race of the islanders, their languages and their geography.
11. Maori tradition has it that these words were spoken by chief Ngatoroirangi when he first arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia in the great Arawa canoe: I arrive where unknown earth is under my feet; I arrive where a new sky is above me .
12. Her crew were all rescued, but it was discovered that the Delima was not, in fact, a water-carrier, as had originally been claimed, but a support ship for a massive fleet of between 60 and 130 Taiwanese drift-net vessels, fishing for albacore tuna along an area of oceanic upwelling known as the Subtropical Convergence Zone, stretching across the South Pacific in a narrow 300-km (200-mile) band from south of the Cook Islands to south of French Polynesia.
13. Then there was Tiare, named after Polynesia's whitest flower, who had inherited a secret hoard of paintings from her artist father, paintings that were to be a turning point in the history of the island.