Roots of conflict : soils, agriculture, and sociopolitical complexity in ancient Hawaiʿi
著者
書誌事項
Roots of conflict : soils, agriculture, and sociopolitical complexity in ancient Hawaiʿi
(School of American Research advanced seminar series)
School for Advanced Research Press, 2011, c2010
1st ed
大学図書館所蔵 全2件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
During the early to mid Holocene, seemingly independently in several parts of the Old and New Worlds, human societies transformed themselves from hunters and gatherers, dependent for their existence on natural resources provided by their environments, to horticulturalists or agriculturalists, who brought a diversity of plants and animals under direct human control. This revolution in the way that humans interacted with the natural world provided the basis for other fundamental changes such as the increasing size and density of human populations, development of sedentary and urban lifestyles, and ultimately the rise of complex sociopolitical formations. Once the majority of humankind had become dependent upon food production for its economic basis, another series of critical transformations was launched.
These had to do with the immensely complex relationships linking people to their newly domesticated crops; crops to land, water, and nutrients; land to sociopolitical organization and cultural concepts of territory; and perceptions of yield, well-being, and risk, to the inevitable efforts of humans to bend the natural world to its will through ritual performance and to understand it through myth and religion. With the development of agriculture as the primary basis for most human societies, the dynamic links between culture and nature became infinitely more complex and intertwined. This book presents the efforts of a team of social and natural scientists to understand the complex, systemic linkages between land, climate, crops, human populations, and their cultural structures. The research group, which includes archaeologists, ecologists, soil scientists, geographers, paleobotanists, and demographers, has focused on what might seem to some an unlikely locale to investigate a set of problems with worldwide significance: the Hawaiian Islands, perhaps the most isolated archipelago on Earth.
And yet, Hawai'i offers a "model system" for teasing out key linkages between land, agriculture, and society. Their goal is to engage selectively with key concepts in the problem of agricultural intensification through the approach of dynamically coupled human and human systems.
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