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The Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
Farming in Polynesia THE planters were both whole-souled fellows; but, in other respects, as unlike as possible. One was a tall, robust Yankee, hern in the backwoods of Maine, sallow, and with a long face;--the other was a short little Cockney, who had first clapped his eyes on the Monument.
Agriculture, for reasons we’ve already studied, encouraged the Southeast Asians to organize and discover new technologies, such as maritime transportation, which they used to colonize Austronesia. There is plentiful evidence for such a hypothesis, since the same crops, pottery, and domesticated animals can be found in Austronesia and ...
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is American writer Herman Melville's first book, published in 1846, when Melville was 26 years old. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature , the narrative is based on Melville's experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands in 1842, supplemented with imaginative ...
16 gru 2018 · farming in polynesia: chapter liv. some account of the wild cattle in polynesia: chapter lv. a hunting ramble with zeke: chapter lvi. mosquitoes: chapter lvii. the second hunt in the mountains: chapter lviii. the hunting-feast; and a visit to afrehitoo: chapter lix. the murphies: chapter lx. what they thought of us in martair: chapter lxi ...
1 wrz 2018 · We highlight the prevalence of niche construction in agricultural trajectories in the region, using both a summary of evidence through Polynesia as well as a targeted case study, and illustrate a framework for organizing those trajectories.
30 paź 2019 · We argue that the best way to understand agroforestry and novel forests in Polynesia is as low-labor multi-generational resources, which comprise a particular form of biotic landscape capital (see discussion in Brookfield 2001:184; Erickson 2008:161), distinct from the better-known geomorphic landesque capital characterized by a permanent ...
