SYSTEM BLINDNESS
au Piailug could read the stars and clouds, the ocean swells and the birds in flight, as though they were a CPS screen.
Mau would take these readings and many others in the middle of the South Pacific, with nothing but sky on the horizon for weeks on end, using only the knowledge of the seas he learned from his elders on his native Caroline island of Satawal.
Mau, born in 1932, was the last surviving native practitioner of the ancient Polynesian art of "wayfinding": piloting a double hulled canoe with only the lore in your head, traversing hundreds or thousands of miles from one island to another. Wayfinding em bodies systems awareness at its height, reading subtle cues like the temperature or saltiness of seawater; flotsam and plant debris; the patterns of flight of seabirds; the warmth, speed, and direction of winds; variations in the swells of waves; and the rising and setting of the stars at night. All that gets mapped against a mental model of where islands are to be found, lore learned through native sto
ries, chants, and dances. .
That allowed Mau to pilot a Polynesian-style canoe the 2,361 miles from Hawaii to Tahiti, a 1976 voyage that made anthropolo gists realize ancient islanders could traverse the South Pacific rou t.inely, in two-way traffic from distant island to distant island.
But over the half century during which Mau preserved this re-System Blindness fined awareness of natural systems, Polynesians had turned to the navigational aids of the modern world. His was a dying lore.
SYSTEM BLINDNESS
au Piailug could read the stars and clouds, the ocean swells and the birds in flight, as though they were a CPS screen.
Mau would take these readings and many others in the middle of the South Pacific, with nothing but sky on the horizon for weeks on end, using only the knowledge of the seas he learned from his elders on his native Caroline island of Satawal.
Mau, born in 1932, was the last surviving native practitioner of the ancient Polynesian art of "wayfinding": piloting a double hulled canoe with only the lore in your head, traversing hundreds or thousands of miles from one island to another. Wayfinding em bodies systems awareness at its height, reading subtle cues like the temperature or saltiness of seawater; flotsam and plant debris; the patterns of flight of seabirds; the warmth, speed, and direction of winds; variations in the swells of waves; and the rising and setting of the stars at night. All that gets mapped against a mental model of where islands are to be found, lore learned through native sto
ries, chants, and dances. .
That allowed Mau to pilot a Polynesian-style canoe the 2,361 miles from Hawaii to Tahiti, a 1976 voyage that made anthropolo gists realize ancient islanders could traverse the South Pacific rou t.inely, in two-way traffic from distant island to distant island.
But over the half century during which Mau preserved this re-System Blindness fined awareness of natural systems, Polynesians had turned to the navigational aids of the modern world. His was a dying lore.
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SYSTEM BLINDNESS
au Piailug could read the stars and clouds, the ocean swells and the birds in flight, as though they were a CPS screen.
Mau would take these readings and many others in the middle of the South Pacific, with nothing but sky on the horizon for weeks on end, using only the knowledge of the seas he learned from his elders on his native Caroline island of Satawal.
Mau, born in 1932, was the last surviving native practitioner of the ancient Polynesian art of "wayfinding": piloting a double hulled canoe with only the lore in your head, traversing hundreds or thousands of miles from one island to another. Wayfinding em bodies systems awareness at its height, reading subtle cues like the temperature or saltiness of seawater; flotsam and plant debris; the patterns of flight of seabirds; the warmth, speed, and direction of winds; variations in the swells of waves; and the rising and setting of the stars at night. All that gets mapped against a mental model of where islands are to be found, lore learned through native sto
ries, chants, and dances. .
That allowed Mau to pilot a Polynesian-style canoe the 2,361 miles from Hawaii to Tahiti, a 1976 voyage that made anthropolo gists realize ancient islanders could traverse the South Pacific rou t.inely, in two-way traffic from distant island to distant island.
But over the half century during which Mau preserved this re-System Blindness fined awareness of natural systems, Polynesians had turned to the navigational aids of the modern world. His was a dying lore.
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