ABSTRACT

Though regularly studied as different academic domains, Asian and Oceanian studies are deeply intertwined not only through longstanding political, economic, immigrant – and colonial – ties, but by questions about common ancestry. From popular commercial DNA testing to historical studies in linguistics, folklore, archaeology, biological anthropology, and sophisticated genome sequencing, deep histories of Oceanian Islander peoples have long been tied to ‘origin’ traditions and reconstructions of lineages from the Asian mainland, notably through the Austronesian diaspora. From 19th-century linguistic theories and Lapita sites, to 20th-century ABO blood groupings and contemporary mitochondrial and Y-chromosome DNA assays, scholars have proposed at times conflicting interpretations of Oceania’s possible Asian human heritage. These analyses have themselves been consistently challenged by Indigenous genealogical traditions such as Māori whakapapa and Islander assertions of origins based on ancestral and localized narratives decolonized of Western scientific practices.

摘要

虽然经常作为不同的学术领域进行研究，但亚洲和大洋洲的研究不仅通过长期的政治、经济、移民和殖民联系，而且还通过关于共同祖先的问题深深地交织在一起。从流行的商业 DNA 测试到语言学、民俗学、考古学、生物人类学和复杂的基因组测序的历史研究，大洋洲岛民的深厚历史长期以来一直与亚洲大陆的“起源”传统和谱系重建联系在一起，特别是通过南岛侨民。从 19 世纪的语言理论和拉皮塔遗址，到 20 世纪的 ABO 血型和当代线粒体和 Y 染色体 DNA 分析，学者们有时对大洋洲可能的亚洲人类遗产提出了相互矛盾的解释。whakapapa和 Islander 的起源断言基于西方科学实践的非殖民化的祖先和本地化叙事。