Cultural and environmental change on Rapa Nui / edited by Sonia H. Cardinali [and three others].

Cardinali, Sonia H.,
Cultural and environmental change on Rapa Nui
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781315294452 (e-book : PDF)
9781315294421 (e-book: Mobi)
9781138240018 (hardback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
First edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (xii, 211 pages)
Dizi
Routledge Studies in Archaeology
İçindekiler Notu
chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Prehistoric settlement, ancient gardens and population dynamics on the Hiva Hiva lava fl ow, Rapa Nui, Chile / CHRISTOPHER M. STEVENSON -- chapter 2 A vanished landscape – phenomena and eco- cultural consequences of extensive deforestation in the prehistory of / Rapa Nui ANDREAS MIETH AND HANS- RUDOLF BORK -- chapter 3 The potential for palm extinction on Rapa Nui by disease / KATHLEEN B. INGERSOLL -- chapter 4 New interpretations of pollen data from Easter Island / JOHN FLENLEY -- chapter 5 Subsistence strategies on Rapa Nui (Easter Island): prehistoric gardening practices on Rapa Nui and how they relate to current farming practices / JOAN A. WOZNIAK -- chapter 6 By the Quebrada of Ava Ranga Uka A Toroke Hau – about landscape transformation and the signifi cance of water and trees / BURKHARD VOGT -- chapter 7 Re- use of the sacred: late period petroglyphs applied to red scoria topknots from Easter Island (Rapa Nui) / GEORGIA LEE -- chapter 8 An earthly paradise? Easter Island (Rapa Nui) as seen by the eighteenth-century European explorers / JAN J. BOERSEMA -- chapter 9 The impact of the whalers and other foreign visitors before 1862 / RHYS RICHARDS -- chapter 10 Healing a culture’s reputation: challenging the cultural labeling and libeling of the Rapanui / KATHLEEN B. INGERSOLL -- chapter 11 Refl ections.
Özet, vb.
Rapa Nui, one of the world’s most isolated island societies and home to the notable moai, has been at the centre of a tense debate for the past decade. Some see it as the site of a dramatic cultural collapse occurring before Western contact, where a self-inflicted ecocide was brought on by the exhaustion of resources. Others argue that the introduction of Western pathogens and the slave raids of 1862 were to blame for the near extinction of the otherwise resilient Rapa Nui people.?Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui?brings together the latest studies by prominent Rapa Nui researchers from all over the world to explore the island’s past and present, from its discovery by Polynesians, through the first documented contact with Western culture in 1722, to the 20th century. The exiting new volume looks beyond the moai to examine such questions as: was there was a cultural collapse; how did the Rapa Nui react to Westerners; and what responses did the Rapa Nui develop to adjust to naturally- or humanly-induced environmental change?. This volume will appeal to scholars and professionals in the fields of history, archaeology and ecology, as well as anyone with an interest in the challenges of sustainable resource management, and the contentious history of Rapa Nui itself.
Konu
Rapanui (Easter Island people) __ Economic conditions.
Rapanui (Easter Island people) __ Environmental aspects.
Rapanui (Easter Island people) __ History.
Easter Island.
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