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Article title
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Abstract
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Keywords
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Foreword
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Introduction
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1. Early and later estimates and re-estimates of Tahiti population
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1.1. General context
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Data
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1.2. Early estimates of Tahiti population at contact
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1.3. Later estimates and early “censuses”
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1.4. Recent re-estimates
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Beaglehole, McArthurs and Oliver’s estimates
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2. Consistency of estimates at contact with retrodictions
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My PhD estimates
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Retrodictions based on the 1848 and 1881 Tahiti censuses
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Data from other Eastern Polynesian islands
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3. Ideologies behind population estimates and collapse
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3.1. Responsibility and the guilt complex
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3.2. Doctors, health and colonial administration
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3.3. Demographers
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3.4. Political and economic aspects
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3.5. Pseudo-scientific and ideological aspects
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3.6. Colonial ideologies
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Conclusion
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References
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Other sources of information
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ANNEX 1
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ANNEX 2
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Structure of Tahiti population at contact
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Infanticide, population trends and structure
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Model A
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Model B
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Model C
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Model D
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Environmental and social factors
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Population structure and estimates
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ANNEX 3
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Tahiti at discovery in Robertson’s log
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