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)