Tikopia

Jared Diamond, in his recent book Collapse, raises the case of Tikopia, a small and successful South Pacific society, in which suicide appears to be a de facto means of population control, practised by young women as well as young men.

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Diamond describes Tikopia as a kind of island paradise where natives saved their environment through eco-friendly gardening and devised a kind of rudimentary democratic system of government.

Collapse by Jared Diamond: Questions 2004

A better approach might be to ask the Tikopia people of Polynesia why they bury their own dead under the floors, or to query the Navajos of the American Southwest about the distinctive stylistic flourishes on their pottery.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Tikopia and Anuta and destroyed houses, churches, schools and health clinics, removing topsoil, vegetation and food crops and damaging water supplies, 'Mrs

Australian Food Relief to Solomon Islands 2003

Advice today from Australian officials on the island of Tikopia that there have been no deaths and no serious injuries is good news.

Solomon Islands 2003

The assessment team found that damage to structures and crops on Anuta was significantly less than on Tikopia.

Update On Solomon Islands 2003

In addition to further relief supplies for the islanders, the Hamakyo Maru will bring fuel for the MV Isabela, currently at Tikopia, and the Auki.

Update On Solomon Islands 2003

Australian support for victims in Tikopia and Anuta to more than $300,000, 'Mrs

Australian Food Relief to Solomon Islands 2003

Tikopia, and took as guide and interpreter a deserter found on the island; made his way to Vanikoro, sighted it on the 12th inst., lay among the reefs until the 14th, and not until the 20th did he cast anchor within the barrier in the harbour of Vanou.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

On the 15th of May, 1824, his vessel, the St. Patrick, passed close to Tikopia, one of the

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003