Tim Bayliss‐smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Bayliss‐smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Bayliss‐smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From Copra Sequestration to Outboard Engine Trawling: Changes in the Carbon Footprint of Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands
The colonial economy of Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands, was centred on the sale of sun-dried copra. Atoll livelihoods depended on the ‘solar income’ freely available for growing coconuts and drying copra, and for sailing the outrigger canoes used for transport and fishing. The population retained self-sufficiency through its renewable resources of taro, coconut, and fish, enabling it also to sequester significant amounts of carbon in the form…
Colonialism as Shell Shock: W.H.R. Rivers’s Explanations for Depopulation in Melanesia
Anthropomorphic Images at the Padjelanta Site, Northern Sweden: Rock Engravings in the Context of Sámi Myth and Ritual
The paper discusses three phases of scratched images from the Padjelanta site of Sámi rock art in Laponia, northern Sweden. Pre-dating the middle phase of Viking Age/Medieval period sailing boats is a set of stylised anthopomorphs. These early images resemble certain petroglyphs from Alta, goddess motifs on Sami drums, and the Earth Mother figure in the Manrlajsmyths. Possible ritual contexts for the Padjelanta images are discussed, including aut…
Landesque capital as an alternative to food storage in Melanesia: Irrigated taro terraces in New Georgia, Solomon Islands
In the Pacific islands, subsistence diversity made possible continuous production of food while well-developed exchange networks redistributed these foodstuffs as well as items within the prestige economy. All these were aspects of the ‘storage structures’ that enabled social and nutritional value to be saved, accumulated and later mobilised. In addition, there were investments in the land, landesque capital, which secured future food surpluses a…
Tahitians, Europeans and Ecological Exchange
Jennifer Newell, Trading Nature: Tahitians, Europeans and ecological exchange. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010. 296 pp., maps, illus., appendices, refs, index. ISBN 978-0-8248-3281-0. U
The representation of Sámi cultural identity in the cultural landscapes of northern Sweden: The Use and Misuse of Archaeological Knowledge
Managing Ontong Java: Social institutions for production and governance of atoll resources in Solomon Islands
This paper explores the changing nature of social institutions and organizations for resource management on Ontong Java and their central role in maintaining livelihoods. Using detailed field data for three time periods, 1970–72, 1986 and 2006–07, and drawing on earlier secondary data, a longitudinal analysis of changes in governance and livelihoods is undertaken. Increased exploitation of marine resources has widened the resource base and increa…
Small island sustainability in the Pacific: Introduction to the special issue
Rainforest Composition and Histories of Human Disturbance in Solomon Islands
On the basis of a Solomon Islands case study, we report that tropical rainforests hitherto perceived as untouched, pristine, virgin, etc., are actually sites of former settlement, extensive forest clearance, and irrigated/swidden agriculture. An unusually wide range of sources--rainforest ecology, forest classification and mapping, ethnobotany, land-use history, oral traditions, ethnographic and archaeological observations--supports our conclusio…
Rainforest Composition and Histories of Human Disturbance in Solomon Islands
On the basis of a Solomon Islands case study, we report that tropical rainforests hitherto perceived as untouched, pristine, virgin, etc., are actually sites of former settlement, extensive forest clearance, and irrigated/swidden agriculture. An unusually wide range of sources—rainforest ecology, forest classification and mapping, ethnobotany, land-use history, oral traditions, ethnographic and archaeological observations—supports our conclusions…
Sailing boats in Padjelanta: Sámi rock engravings from the mountains in Laponia, northern Sweden
Six figures of boats, four of them large sailing boats, have been found scratched on an outcrop of soapstone at a site in a mountain valley at about 700m altitude in Padjelanta, northern Sweden. In addition some human figures and a harnessed reindeer are depicted. An iconic resemblance exists between aspects of the Padjelanta sailing boats (e.g. hull shape, side rudders, anchor, sails) and the larger boats used by farmers or traders in the fjords…
Sámi Rock Engravings from the Mountains in Laponia, northern Sweden
In this paper we present a description of some rock engravings that have been discovered by reindeer herders in Padjelanta, on the fringes of the Sarek Mountains in Lapland, northern Sweden. The site has now been registered, but it has not yet been fully researched and is unprotected, so its precise location will not be disclosed. In this paper we shall call it the Padjelanta site. The pictures there include various figures – animals including re…
The Environmental Challenge
The relationship between people and the natural environment has always been one of the central concerns of geography. From a somewhat disreputable past, tainted with the excesses of environmental determinism, we have arrived at a situation in which many geographers are centrally engaged in debates about environmental issues and policies. It is in the nature of these issues, however, that their analysis requires interdisciplinary treatment involvi…
The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific
Papuan exploration, colonial expansion and the Royal Geographical Society: Questions of power/knowledge relations
A Colocasian revolution in the New Guinea Highlands? Insights from Phase 4 at Kuk
Archaeological evidence of ditches and field systems is described for Phase 4 (second millenium bp) at Kuk swamp, upper Wahgi valley, Papua New Guinea. In Phase 4 control of the water table was achieved by grid patterns of field drains which articulated with larger disposal channels. We provide an interpretation of the reconstructed agricultural system using ethnographic data from the upper Kaugel valley, and using also experimental data from Bai…
Britain's Changing Environment from the Air
1. The changing uplands W. M. ADAMS 2. The changing lowlands G. F. PETERKEN and F. M. R. ADAMS 3. Coastal change TIM BAYLISS-SMITH 4. Leisure and the countryside PETER OWENS 5. Industry H. D. WATTS 6. Transport D. BANISTER 7. Energy resources SUSAN OWENS 8. Land use and landscape R. G. H. BUNCE
Food Security and Agricultural Sustainability in the New Guinea Highlands: Vulnerable People, Vulnerable Places
scale, are ultimately responsible. Such external and long-term considerations usually do not, and sometimes cannot, enter into decision making. Irreversible soil erosion or the loss of a plant or animal species represents a 'negative externality', a cost that is passed on to others or to future generations without compensation. These negative externalities are emerging as a policy problem in market economies, and may result in pressure for state …
Conservation Biology in Hawai'i
Islands, Islanders and the World: The Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji
Land, Cane and Coconuts: Papers on the Rural Economy of Fiji
Circulation in Population Movement: Substance and Concepts from the Melanesian Case
This is a collection of studies by various authors concerning migration in Melanesia. It is a product of the Seminar on the Cross-Cultural Study of Circulation held at the East-West Center in Hawaii in 1978. The 20 papers are divided into five substantive sections. The first deals with traditional patterns of migration before the development of regular contacts with outsiders. The second describes the transformations in circulation associated wit…
Islands, Islanders and the World: The Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji
List of illustrations List of tables Foreword: the MAB Programme and the Eastern Fiji Project G. Glaser Editorial note 1. On the study of islands, people and events 2. The island landscape 3. Capitalism and colonialism in the periphery 4. Physical and economic externalities and their impact 5. Vulnerability in a changing society 6. Pampered periphery? 7. Villages of adaptation: Batiki and Kabara 8. Adaptation or stagnation? the case of Koro 9. Vi…
The Role of Hurricanes in the Development of Reef Islands, Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands
This paper describes recent geomorphic change on reef islands of Ontong Java atoll, Solomon Islands and discusses the nature of the 'steady state' equilibrium that has been proposed for cays and motus. The effects of a hurricane in 1967 are analysed through detailed field mapping in 1971, 1972 and 1986, and with reference to evidence from earlier charts and air photographs. It is concluded that the hurricane represents a high-magnitude low-freque…
People and the Pacific environment: A changing geography
Bayliss-Smith Tim. People and the Pacific environment : a changing geography. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 84, 1987-1. pp. 103-106
A Colocasian revolution in the New Guinea Highlands? Insights from Phase 4 at Kuk
Archaeological evidence of ditches and field systems is described for Phase 4 (second millenium bp) at Kuk swamp, upper Wahgi valley, Papua New Guinea. In Phase 4 control of the water table was achieved by grid patterns of field drains which articulated with larger disposal channels. We provide an interpretation of the reconstructed agricultural system using ethnographic data from the upper Kaugel valley, and using also experimental data from Bai…
Rainforest Composition and Histories of Human Disturbance in Solomon Islands
On the basis of a Solomon Islands case study, we report that tropical rainforests hitherto perceived as untouched, pristine, virgin, etc., are actually sites of former settlement, extensive forest clearance, and irrigated/swidden agriculture. An unusually wide range of sources--rainforest ecology, forest classification and mapping, ethnobotany, land-use history, oral traditions, ethnographic and archaeological observations--supports our conclusio…
The Role of Hurricanes in the Development of Reef Islands, Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands
This paper describes recent geomorphic change on reef islands of Ontong Java atoll, Solomon Islands and discusses the nature of the 'steady state' equilibrium that has been proposed for cays and motus. The effects of a hurricane in 1967 are analysed through detailed field mapping in 1971, 1972 and 1986, and with reference to evidence from earlier charts and air photographs. It is concluded that the hurricane represents a high-magnitude low-freque…
The Human Impact: Man's Role in Environmental Change
The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific
Sailing boats in Padjelanta: Sámi rock engravings from the mountains in Laponia, northern Sweden
Six figures of boats, four of them large sailing boats, have been found scratched on an outcrop of soapstone at a site in a mountain valley at about 700m altitude in Padjelanta, northern Sweden. In addition some human figures and a harnessed reindeer are depicted. An iconic resemblance exists between aspects of the Padjelanta sailing boats (e.g. hull shape, side rudders, anchor, sails) and the larger boats used by farmers or traders in the fjords…
Landesque capital as an alternative to food storage in Melanesia: Irrigated taro terraces in New Georgia, Solomon Islands
In the Pacific islands, subsistence diversity made possible continuous production of food while well-developed exchange networks redistributed these foodstuffs as well as items within the prestige economy. All these were aspects of the ‘storage structures’ that enabled social and nutritional value to be saved, accumulated and later mobilised. In addition, there were investments in the land, landesque capital, which secured future food surpluses a…
Food Security and Agricultural Sustainability in the New Guinea Highlands: Vulnerable People, Vulnerable Places
scale, are ultimately responsible. Such external and long-term considerations usually do not, and sometimes cannot, enter into decision making. Irreversible soil erosion or the loss of a plant or animal species represents a 'negative externality', a cost that is passed on to others or to future generations without compensation. These negative externalities are emerging as a policy problem in market economies, and may result in pressure for state …
The Storm Surge of 11 January 1978 on the East Coast of England
Understanding Green Revolutions: Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia. Essays in Honour of B. H. Farmer
Preface Sir Joseph Hutchinson Part I. Understanding Green Revolutions: An Overview: 1. The agricultural revolution in Western Europe David B. Grigg 2. Land reform as a pre-condition for Green Revolution in Latin America Clifford T. Smith 3. Frogs and farmers: the Green Revolution in India, and its murky past Christopher J. Baker 4. Agrarian change and the Merchant State in Tamil Nadu Barbara Harriss Part II. Agrarian Change at Village Level: 5. A…
Papuan exploration, colonial expansion and the Royal Geographical Society: Questions of power/knowledge relations
Conservation Biology in Hawai'i
Rainforest Composition and Histories of Human Disturbance in Solomon Islands
On the basis of a Solomon Islands case study, we report that tropical rainforests hitherto perceived as untouched, pristine, virgin, etc., are actually sites of former settlement, extensive forest clearance, and irrigated/swidden agriculture. An unusually wide range of sources—rainforest ecology, forest classification and mapping, ethnobotany, land-use history, oral traditions, ethnographic and archaeological observations—supports our conclusions…
Britain's Changing Environment from the Air
1. The changing uplands W. M. ADAMS 2. The changing lowlands G. F. PETERKEN and F. M. R. ADAMS 3. Coastal change TIM BAYLISS-SMITH 4. Leisure and the countryside PETER OWENS 5. Industry H. D. WATTS 6. Transport D. BANISTER 7. Energy resources SUSAN OWENS 8. Land use and landscape R. G. H. BUNCE
Demographic archaeology
Progress in Resource Management and Environmental Planning, Volume 4
Constraints on population growth: The case of the Polynesian Outlier Atolls in the precontact period
The Storm Surge of 11 January 1978 on the East Coast of England
The Human Impact: Man's Role in Environmental Change
Understanding Green Revolutions: Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia
Peasant societies in the Third World have undergone changes that are often regarded as sweeping and unparalleled; rapid population growth, progressive integration into the market economy and a Green Revolution in agricultural technology. This book is a critical examination of the truth behind these stereotypes. Twenty-one specialists in the field of development studies look at the reality of agrarian change, either through historical analysis, or…
Demographic archaeology
Progress in Resource Management and Environmental Planning, Volume 4
Subsistence Agriculture and Nutrition in the Bimin Valley, Oksapmin Sub‐district, Papua New Guinea
Tropical Forests and Forestry: Review
Understanding Green Revolutions: Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia. Essays in Honour of B. H. Farmer
Preface Sir Joseph Hutchinson Part I. Understanding Green Revolutions: An Overview: 1. The agricultural revolution in Western Europe David B. Grigg 2. Land reform as a pre-condition for Green Revolution in Latin America Clifford T. Smith 3. Frogs and farmers: the Green Revolution in India, and its murky past Christopher J. Baker 4. Agrarian change and the Merchant State in Tamil Nadu Barbara Harriss Part II. Agrarian Change at Village Level: 5. A…
Understanding Green Revolutions: Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia
In Papua New Guinea
People and the Pacific environment: A changing geography
Bayliss-Smith Tim. People and the Pacific environment : a changing geography. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 84, 1987-1. pp. 103-106
The Role of Hurricanes in the Development of Reef Islands, Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands
This paper describes recent geomorphic change on reef islands of Ontong Java atoll, Solomon Islands and discusses the nature of the 'steady state' equilibrium that has been proposed for cays and motus. The effects of a hurricane in 1967 are analysed through detailed field mapping in 1971, 1972 and 1986, and with reference to evidence from earlier charts and air photographs. It is concluded that the hurricane represents a high-magnitude low-freque…
Land, Cane and Coconuts: Papers on the Rural Economy of Fiji
Circulation in Population Movement: Substance and Concepts from the Melanesian Case
This is a collection of studies by various authors concerning migration in Melanesia. It is a product of the Seminar on the Cross-Cultural Study of Circulation held at the East-West Center in Hawaii in 1978. The 20 papers are divided into five substantive sections. The first deals with traditional patterns of migration before the development of regular contacts with outsiders. The second describes the transformations in circulation associated wit…
Islands, Islanders and the World: The Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji
List of illustrations List of tables Foreword: the MAB Programme and the Eastern Fiji Project G. Glaser Editorial note 1. On the study of islands, people and events 2. The island landscape 3. Capitalism and colonialism in the periphery 4. Physical and economic externalities and their impact 5. Vulnerability in a changing society 6. Pampered periphery? 7. Villages of adaptation: Batiki and Kabara 8. Adaptation or stagnation? the case of Koro 9. Vi…
Conservation Biology in Hawai'i
Islands, Islanders and the World: The Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji
Food Security and Agricultural Sustainability in the New Guinea Highlands: Vulnerable People, Vulnerable Places
scale, are ultimately responsible. Such external and long-term considerations usually do not, and sometimes cannot, enter into decision making. Irreversible soil erosion or the loss of a plant or animal species represents a 'negative externality', a cost that is passed on to others or to future generations without compensation. These negative externalities are emerging as a policy problem in market economies, and may result in pressure for state …
Papuan exploration, colonial expansion and the Royal Geographical Society: Questions of power/knowledge relations
A Colocasian revolution in the New Guinea Highlands? Insights from Phase 4 at Kuk
Archaeological evidence of ditches and field systems is described for Phase 4 (second millenium bp) at Kuk swamp, upper Wahgi valley, Papua New Guinea. In Phase 4 control of the water table was achieved by grid patterns of field drains which articulated with larger disposal channels. We provide an interpretation of the reconstructed agricultural system using ethnographic data from the upper Kaugel valley, and using also experimental data from Bai…
Britain's Changing Environment from the Air
1. The changing uplands W. M. ADAMS 2. The changing lowlands G. F. PETERKEN and F. M. R. ADAMS 3. Coastal change TIM BAYLISS-SMITH 4. Leisure and the countryside PETER OWENS 5. Industry H. D. WATTS 6. Transport D. BANISTER 7. Energy resources SUSAN OWENS 8. Land use and landscape R. G. H. BUNCE
The Environmental Challenge
The relationship between people and the natural environment has always been one of the central concerns of geography. From a somewhat disreputable past, tainted with the excesses of environmental determinism, we have arrived at a situation in which many geographers are centrally engaged in debates about environmental issues and policies. It is in the nature of these issues, however, that their analysis requires interdisciplinary treatment involvi…
The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific
Sailing boats in Padjelanta: Sámi rock engravings from the mountains in Laponia, northern Sweden
Six figures of boats, four of them large sailing boats, have been found scratched on an outcrop of soapstone at a site in a mountain valley at about 700m altitude in Padjelanta, northern Sweden. In addition some human figures and a harnessed reindeer are depicted. An iconic resemblance exists between aspects of the Padjelanta sailing boats (e.g. hull shape, side rudders, anchor, sails) and the larger boats used by farmers or traders in the fjords…
Geography (35 works) · Archaeology (20 works) · History (16 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (15 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (14 works) · History (11 works) · Biology (10 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Political science (9 works)