Description: Islands and Cultures : How Pacific Islands Provide Paths Toward Sustainability, Paperback by Beamer, Kamanamaikalani; Tau, Te Maire; Vitousek, Peter M., ISBN 030025301X, ISBN-13 9780300253016, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records Humans began to settle the area we know as Polynesia between 3,000 and 800 years ago, bringing with them material culture, including plants and animals, and ideas about societal organization, and then adapting to the specific biophysical features of the islands they discovered. The authors of this book analyze the formation of their human-environment systems using oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records, arguing that the Polynesian islands can serve as useful models for how human societies in general interact with their environments. The islands’ clearly defined (and relatively isolated) environments, comparatively recent discovery by humans, and innovative and dynamic societies allow for insights not available when studying other cultures. Kamana Beamer, Te Maire Tau, and Peter Vitousek have collaborated with a dozen other scholars, many of them Polynesian, to show how these cultures adapted to novel environments in the past and how we can draw insights for global sustainability today.
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Book Title: Islands and Cultures : How Pacific Islands Provide Paths Toward S
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Islands and Cultures : How Pacific Islands Provide Paths Toward Sustainability
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Historical Geography, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Oceania
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Subject Area: Nature, Social Science, History
Author: Te Maire Tau, Peter M. Vitousek, Kamanamaikalani Beamer
Item Length: 8.4 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
