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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: survival of Easter Island
    sub title: dwindling resources and cultural resilience
  title info:
    title: Beelden van Paaseiland. English
  name:
    name part: Boersema, J. J.
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    edition: English edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: dut
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 1. Easter Island as an icon -- 2. From the east or the west? -- 3. The green past -- 4. Culture appears, nature disappears -- 5. Makemake, moai, and the tangata manu -- 6. Resilience and sustainability -- 7. Foreigners -- 8. Christianization, sheep breeding and research -- 9. The earth and Easter Island : doom and destiny.
  note: Jan J. Boersema, Leiden University ; translated by Diane Webb.
  note: Translation of: Beelden van Paaseiland : over de duurzaamheid van een cultuur. 2011.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: poea---
  subject:
    geographic: Easter Island
    topic: Civilization
  subject:
    topic: Prehistoric peoples
    geographic: Easter Island
  subject:
    topic: Sculpture, Prehistoric
    geographic: Easter Island
  subject:
    topic: Polynesians
    geographic: Easter Island
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
  classification: F3169 .B6413 2015
  classification: 996.18/01
  identifier: 9781107027701
  identifier: 1107027705
  identifier: 2014043708
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150211
    record change date: 20150605081010.0
    record identifier: in00003533996