TIKOPIA RELIGION. Tikopia is a small island, three miles long and a mile and a half wide. It is part of the political grouping of the Solomon Islands, a thousand-mile chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is also the peak of an old volcano, now...
THIS BOOK caps one of anthropology's most remarkable careers. Through a stream of publications spanning more than half a century Sir Raymond Firth has made Tikopia, an isolated Polynesian island, into one of the world's most thoroughly documented small-scale societies. Considering the relatively short...
In "What Is Sustainability, Anyway?" (September/October 2003), Thomas Prugh and Erik Assadourian invite us to learn from the awful lessons of Easter Island, where the inhabitants overharvested the trees, deforested the island, ceased being able to make big canoes, and were no longer able...
