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Preliminary Pages
Acknowledgements
Section I. Origins and Dispersals
- Chapter 2. Proto-Austronesian and the Major Austronesian Subgroups
- Chapter 3. The Prehistory of Oceanic Languages: A Current View
- Chapter 4. Borneo as a Cross-Roads for Comparative Austronesian Linguistics
- Chapter 5. Austronesian Prehistory in Southeast Asia: Homeland, Expansion and Transformation
- Chapter 6. The Lapita Culture and Austronesian Prehistory in Oceania
- Chapter 7. The Austronesian Conquest of the Sea — Upwind
- Chapter 8. Domesticated and Commensal Mammals of Austronesia and Their Histories
Section II. Transformations and Interactions
- Chapter 9. Homo Sapiens is an Evolving Species: Origins of the Austronesians
- Chapter 10. A Study of Genetic Distance and the Austronesian/Non-Austronesian Dichotomy
- Chapter 11. Language Contact and Change in Melanesia
- Chapter 12. Austronesian Societies and Their Transformations
- Chapter 13. Sea Nomads and Rainforest Hunter-Gatherers: Foraging Adaptations in the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
- Chapter 14. Exchange Systems, Political Dynamics, and Colonial Transformations in Nineteenth Century Oceania
- Chapter 15. Indic Transformation: The Sanskritization of Jawa and the Javanization of the Bharata
- Chapter 16. Continuity and Change in the Austronesian Transition to Islam and Christianity
- Chapter 17. Christianity and Austronesian Transformations: Church, Polity and Culture in the Philippines and the Pacific



