Reconsidering sources for the study of primitive surfing: Polynesia, China, Peru and Western Africa
Keywords:
surf, history, sport, travellers, explorers.Abstract
This research undertakes a critical revision of the main primary sources for the study of the genesis of surfing. It is focused on the four areas where (for now) there is evidence of the existence of primitive surfing before 1800: Polynesia, China, Peru and Western Africa. After describing the sources they will be critically revised. Finally I propose future research projects, which may help to go further in the studies of the genesis of surfing.
One of the main conclusions is related to the strong limitation of the primary sources to explain the beginnings, since they are mostly testimonies from Western travellers and explorers between 17th-19th Century, or from oral tradition (Hawaiian legends). In this sense, there is a lack of connection between surfing historians and archaeologists. The last results (and future results) in archaeological and paleoecological studies about the first settlements in Polynesia, will be very useful in order to try to assign a date of the beginnings of surfing in this area of the planet.
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