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WRRCPR No.96-02 Water: Its Meaning and Management in Pre-Contact Hawaii
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Title: | WRRCPR No.96-02 Water: Its Meaning and Management in Pre-Contact Hawaii |
Authors: | Franco, Robert W. |
Keywords: | water management water use irrigation ditches water supply development fish ponds show 10 morewater rights processual cultural ecology ethnohistory pondfield terraces Oahu Maui Molokai Lanai Kauai Hawaii show less |
LC Subject Headings: | Hawaiian gods. Water -- Mythology -- Hawaii. Water rights -- Hawaii. Water-supply -- Hawaii. |
Date Issued: | Aug 1995 |
Publisher: | Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa |
Citation: | Franco RW. 1995. Water: its meaning and management in pre-contact Hawaii. Honolulu (HI): Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa. WRRC project report, 96-02. |
Series: | WRRC Project Reports 96-02 |
Abstract: | Since Wittfogel's controversial theory linking irrigation with "oriental despotism," western archaeologists
have focused a great deal of attention on early forms of irrigation and water management. During the late prehistoric period in ancient Hawaii, irrigation and other water management practices supported the sociopolitical evolution of a proto-state formation, and archaeological interpretations of these developments have dominated the literature. This report uses the archaeological data as a point of departure in an analysis of the meaning and management of water. Woven into the archaeological data is an analysis of Hawaiian chants, legends, and proverbs in an attempt to better understand the meaning of water to the indigenous people of the Hawaiian islands. This report is based on the premise that intraisland (windward-leeward) and interisland (geological-hydrological) variation produced localized meanings of water, particularly as they were related to the characters of Kane, Kanaloa, Lono, and Ku. Further, these meanings changed over time, largely in relation to population growth, production intensification, and increasing sociopolitical complexity. |
Pages/Duration: | x + 76 pages |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/2927 |
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