Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui

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  • Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui Book Detail

  • Author : Sonia Haoa Cardinali
  • Release Date : 2017-08-09
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 323
  • ISBN 13 : 1315294435
  • File Size : 38,38 MB
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Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui by Sonia Haoa Cardinali PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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