{"product_id":"trees-knots-and-outriggers-9781785333200","title":"Trees, Knots, and Outriggers","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\tThe book is combination of structuralist and ecological work to a classic area for the discipline, the Kula Ring. Although structuralist or structuralist-inspired work is common in this area, ecological work is not.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\tThe book is the product of engaged interdisciplinary research: social anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, biological systematics, geochemistry (stable isotopes) and climate issues, especially ENSO, El Niño Southern Oscillation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\tAlthough focused on one island and set of island-cultures, the study is explicitly a regional systems analysis.  If at first take the region is the Kula Ring as a regional system, and then the Austronesian world, and second take the analysis is situated between and among forms running from China to Australia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\tIf on the one hand the book is first a what-book, it is also a ‘how-did-he-learn-that’ book. There is a designed biographical, and very human component to the book’s story. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Frederick H. Damon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42956055871606,"sku":"9781785333200","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_d9db39eb-8b7c-4ee4-a345-3af91100f373.jpg?v=1767712910","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/trees-knots-and-outriggers-9781785333200","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}