Braided Waters e-bog
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Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resourcesespecially waterin a fragile, highly v...
E-bog
656,09 DKK
Udgivet
18 december 2018
Længde
312 sider
Genrer
1KBBW
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780520970656
Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resourcesespecially waterin a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in both the Polynesian and modern erasa case of historical isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental history.