08-31-2024, 07:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-31-2024, 04:20 PM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
believing adze mining and crafting in Hawaii must have been grueling indentured servitude is also just an assumption based …
… on the maxim “when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras.
Almost all mining was grueling servitude for the workers. There may have been exceptions, a zebra or two, maybe.
We also have an example of how Hawaiians removed a commodity from the mountain, and who benefited. Sandalwood. The way it was harvested with forced labor, and proceeds went to the ali’i is in records kept by Hawaiians. Does this prove that adze was mined in a similar fashion? Maybe, especially if your argument is that cultures have differences, that they have specific ways in which their society operates.
It may not be that the haole mind can’t fathom how another culture sees things differently. It may be that some haole minds don’t read or won’t accept the existing written historical record left by another culture.
… on the maxim “when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras.
Almost all mining was grueling servitude for the workers. There may have been exceptions, a zebra or two, maybe.
We also have an example of how Hawaiians removed a commodity from the mountain, and who benefited. Sandalwood. The way it was harvested with forced labor, and proceeds went to the ali’i is in records kept by Hawaiians. Does this prove that adze was mined in a similar fashion? Maybe, especially if your argument is that cultures have differences, that they have specific ways in which their society operates.
It may not be that the haole mind can’t fathom how another culture sees things differently. It may be that some haole minds don’t read or won’t accept the existing written historical record left by another culture.