The Survival Of Easter Island
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The Survival Of Easter Island
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Author : J. J. Boersema
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Survival Of Easter Island written by J. J. Boersema and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with HISTORY categories.
The Survival Of Easter Island
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Author : Jan J. Boersema
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Survival Of Easter Island written by Jan J. Boersema and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Easter Island categories.
Jan J. Boersema reconstructs the ecological and cultural history of Easter Island and critiques the hitherto accepted theory of its collapse.
The Survival Of Easter Island
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Author : Jan J. Boersema
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-13
The Survival Of Easter Island written by Jan J. Boersema and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-13 with History categories.
Jan J. Boersema reconstructs the ecological and cultural history of Easter Island and critiques the hitherto accepted theory of its collapse.
Rapanui
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Author : Grant McCall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981-01-01
Rapanui written by Grant McCall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-01-01 with Easter Island categories.
The Survival Of Easter Island Civilization
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Author : J. J. Boersema
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Survival Of Easter Island Civilization written by J. J. Boersema and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Easter Island categories.
"In this book, Jan J. Boersema reconstructs the ecological and cultural history of Easter Island and critiques the hitherto accepted theory of the collapse of its civilization. The collapse theory, advanced most recently by Jared Diamond and Clive Ponting, is based on the documented overexploitation of natural resources, particularly woodlands, on which Easter Island culture depended. Deforestation is said to have led to erosion, followed by hunger, conflict, and economic and cultural collapse. Drawing on scientific data and historical sources, including the shipping journals of the Dutch merchant who was the first European to visit the island in 1722, Boersema shows that deforestation did not in fact jeopardize food production and lead to starvation and violence. On the basis of historical and scientific evidence, Boersema demonstrates how Easter Island society responded to cultural and environmental change as it evolved and managed to survive"--
The Survival Of Easter Island
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Author : Jan J. Boersema
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-18
The Survival Of Easter Island written by Jan J. Boersema and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-18 with Social Science categories.
In this book, Jan J. Boersema reconstructs the ecological and cultural history of Easter Island and critiques the hitherto accepted theory of the collapse of its civilization. The collapse theory, advanced most recently by Jared Diamond and Clive Ponting, is based on the documented overexploitation of natural resources, particularly woodlands, on which Easter Island culture depended. Deforestation is said to have led to erosion, followed by hunger, conflict, and economic and cultural collapse. Drawing on scientific data and historical sources, including the shipping journals of the Dutch merchant who was the first European to visit the island in 1722, Boersema shows that deforestation did not in fact jeopardize food production and lead to starvation and violence. On the basis of historical and scientific evidence, Boersema demonstrates how Easter Island society responded to cultural and environmental change as it evolved and managed to survive.
Rapanui
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Author : Grant McCall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Rapanui written by Grant McCall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Easter Island categories.
From Captain Cook's voyages to Kevin Costner's 1994 film, Rapanui has captured the interest and imagination of many people. Most accounts of Rapanui (as the people of Easter Island call themselves and their land) describe a barren, empty landscape. This book places people prominently in that landscape. Grant McCall has spent more than two decades studying Rapanui and in this revised second edition he presents the details of how Easter Island came to be what it is today. Rapanui is the absorbing story of the survival of an ingenious population of scarcely 3,000 people who cling to the rocky home they love. The first part of the book offers the reader a concise outline of the latest discoveries in the prehistory and history of Rapanui. Later chapters on contemporary life flow around the familiar concepts of family and group, belief, earning a living, relations with one's kin and with strangers. The final chapter describes the most recent changes and concludes with ideas about what the next millennium might bring to the people of the world's most remote island.
Easter Island
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Author : John Dos Passos
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date : 2011-03-23
Easter Island written by John Dos Passos and has been published by Doubleday this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-23 with Social Science categories.
Despite sickness in the final years of his life, Dos Passos presses on for adventure. He and his wife journey to Easter Island, where they explore the history behind the famous statues—called maois. “When I was a small boy,” Dos Passos says, “some kind person took me to the British Museum. There I saw a statue, a huge, rough, dark-gray statue with [a] long, sad, dark-gray face. The statue stared back out of deep, sunken eyes. What was it trying to say? To this day I can remember the feeling it gave me of savage, brooding melancholy.”
Easter Island
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Author : Michael Capek
language : en
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Release Date : 2008-09-01
Easter Island written by Michael Capek and has been published by Twenty-First Century Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Examines the mysterious stone heads of Easter Island.
Singing And Survival
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Author : Dan Bendrups
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
Singing And Survival written by Dan Bendrups and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
An exemplary investigation into music and sustainability, Singing and Survival tells the story of how music helped the Rapanui people of Easter Island to preserve their unique cultural heritage. Easter Island (or Rapanui), known for the iconic headstones (moai) that dot the island landscape, has a remarkable and enduring presence in global popular culture where it has been portrayed as a place of mystery and fascination, and as a case study in societal collapse. These portrayals often overlook the remarkable survival of the Rapanui people who rebounded from a critically diminished population of just 110 people in the late nineteenth century to what is now a vibrant community where indigenous language and cultural practices have been preserved for future generations. This cultural revival has drawn on a diversity of historical and contemporary influences: indigenous heritage, colonial and missionary influences from South America, and cultural imports from other Polynesian islands, as well as from tourism and global popular culture. The impact of these influences can be perceived in the island's contemporary music culture. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Easter Island music, with individual chapters devoted to the various streams of cultural influence from which the Rapanui people have drawn to rebuild and reinforce their music, their performances, their language and their presence in the world. In doing so, it provides a counterpoint to deficit discourses of collapse, destruction and disappearance to which the Rapanui people have historically been subjected.