Cultural ecology
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Cultural ecology is the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments. Human adaptation refers to both biological and cultural processes that enable a population to survive and reprod
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CHINTREUIL Le Boulot blanc
History of Easter Island
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Geologically one of the youngest inhabited territories on Earth, Easter Island, located in the mid-Pacific Ocean, was, for most of its history, one of the most isolated. Its inhabitants, the Rapa Nui,
Cultural ecology
…the study of economies as polities, it becomes political ecology, another academic subfield. It also helps interrogate historical events like the Easter Island Syndrome. Anthropologist Julian Steward (1902-1972) coined the term, envisioning cultural ecology as a methodology for understanding how humans adapt to such a…
Location of Easter Island in the South Pacific Ocean
Traditional Rapa Nui cultivar of sweet potato (kumara)
Ahu Tongariki near Rano Raraku, a 15-moai ahu excavated and restored in the 1990s
Motu Nui islet, part of the Birdman Cult ceremony