Talk:Geoffrey Irwin

Some refs

I'm going to dump references and stuff that came up here, since it's too late for me to think of writing anything coherent. I may be too busy to get to anything in the week, but I do hope to be able to get back to this, as Irwin appears to be a very interesting scholar. Summary: Professor Irwin appears to be a major figure in the study of prehistoric Pacific Islanders and their migration patterns. It's a small field, but the reviews for the books describe him as groundbreaking, new, invaluable, etc. His Gscholar cites are decently impressive for a small discipline, and one of the news refs describes him as "the Pacific's foremost authority of traditional voyaging." (the third one down, I believe).

http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/1218/season-two---late-03-profiles
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/auckland-university/news/article.cfm?o_id=330&objectid=10518760&pnum=1
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=230776
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12617122.700-science-how-careful-sailing-first-won-the-pacific.html

A dump from a quick JSTOR search on his book:
 1.
Title:  Review: [untitled]
Author(s):  Roger C. Green
Reviewed Title(s):  The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific
Reviewed Authors(s):  Geoffrey Irwin
Source:  American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 95, No. 4  (Dec., 1993), pp. 1041-1042
Publisher(s): Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association
Stable URL:  http://www.jstor.org/stable/683066

2.
Title:  Review: [untitled]
Author(s):  Melinda S. Allen
Reviewed Title(s):  The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific.
Reviewed Authors(s):  Geoffrey Irwin
Source:  Man, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 2  (Jun., 1994), pp. 468-469
Publisher(s): Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Stable URL:  http://www.jstor.org/stable/2804490



3.
Title:  Review: [untitled]
Author(s):  Ben Finney
Source:  The Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 28, No. 2, A Special Issue in Honour of Professor J. W. Davidson, on the 20th Anniversary of His Death, with Articles by His Former Doctoral Students  (Dec., 1993), pp. 282-283
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Stable URL:  http://www.jstor.org/stable/25169179
4.
Title:  Review: [untitled]
Author(s):  Tim Bayliss-Smith
Reviewed Title(s):  The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific
Reviewed Authors(s):  Geoffrey Irwin
Source:  The Geographical Journal, Vol. 160, No. 1  (Mar., 1994), pp. 94-95
Publisher(s): Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
Stable URL:  http://www.jstor.org/stable/3060151


5.
Title:  Review: [untitled]
Author(s):  Brian Chisholm
Reviewed Title(s):  The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific.
Reviewed Authors(s):  Geoffrey Irwin
Source:  Pacific Affairs, Vol. 69, No. 2  (Summer, 1996), pp. 299-300
Publisher(s): Pacific Affairs, University of British Columbia
Stable URL:  http://www.jstor.org/stable/2760761

Ray^Talk 05:40, 25 January 2010 (UTC)