Evolution of La'ie's Landscape

Authors

Riley Moffat

Keywords

La'ie, landscape, Hawaiian islands

Abstract

As we celebrate the sesquicentennial of Mormon Laie we must remember that all history occurs on a stage, a geographical landscape that effects how that history can evolve. There are natural limitations to what the human occupants of a particular landscape can do and this therefore affects their decisions. This has certainly been the case with Laie since the beginning of time. As Marshall Sahlins has written: culture “transforms its landscape and so must respond anew to changes that it had set in motion”. (Sahlins. “Culture and Environment: The Study of Cultural Ecology” in S. Tax, ed. Horizons of Anthropology. Chicago: Aldine, 1964. p. 133)

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Moffat, Riley (2015) "Evolution of La'ie's Landscape," Mormon Pacific Historical Society: Vol. 36, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mphs/vol36/iss1/4