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A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records

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“Islands and Cultures is very important in its content, voice, and coverage. Each chapter is rich with new ideas, and every author brings a different kind of evidence to explore their focal place and peoples.”—Eleanor Sterling, director, Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology

“This book seeks—and at times finds—the confluence where the waters of Western knowledge and Pacific indigenous knowledge meet. Humanity’s future path is there, a path by which our Mother the Earth and all of her descendants may yet thrive.”—Justice Sir Joe Williams, New Zealand Supreme Court

“Islands and Cultures provides a unique contribution in demonstrating how the ideology, epistemology, and science of Polynesian worldviews are woven together to create and maintain the living universe.”—Joseph P. Brewer II, University of Kansas

Islands and Cultures

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    A Paperback / softback by Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Te Maire Tau, Peter M. Vitousek

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      Publisher Yale University Press
      Published 24 January 2023
      ISBN-13 9780300253016
      978-0300253016
      ISBN-10 030025301X
      Also in:
      Australasian and Pacific history Historical geography

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records

      Trade Review
      “Islands and Cultures is very important in its content, voice, and coverage. Each chapter is rich with new ideas, and every author brings a different kind of evidence to explore their focal place and peoples.”—Eleanor Sterling, director, Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology

      “This book seeks—and at times finds—the confluence where the waters of Western knowledge and Pacific indigenous knowledge meet. Humanity’s future path is there, a path by which our Mother the Earth and all of her descendants may yet thrive.”—Justice Sir Joe Williams, New Zealand Supreme Court

      “Islands and Cultures provides a unique contribution in demonstrating how the ideology, epistemology, and science of Polynesian worldviews are woven together to create and maintain the living universe.”—Joseph P. Brewer II, University of Kansas

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