There is a growing literature on the cultural capacities influencing communities’ adaptation to environmental and social change, including the temporal frameworks they draw on for timely action. This paper focuses on seasonal cultures, and how they enable communities on the Coromandel Peninsula to interpret and adapt practical timings to disrupted patterns of seasonal rhythms. The paper develops and applies a conceptual framework of seasonal cultures as perceived rhythmic patterns practiced by communities as cultural repertoires for action, emphasising the ways cultures evolve as patterns are contested and change. This concept steered critical, mixed-method ethnographic study with communities on the peninsula over two years. The research found that Coromandel communities’ cultures make seasonal change visible as long-term shifts and asynchrony between rhythmic patterns, which they linked to climatic change, environmental degradation, colonisation and globalisation, and shifting relations between society and the environment. As seasonal patterns fail to hold, communities deploy a combination of strategies for re-configuring seasonal rhythms through their practices: (i) maintaining established, institutionalised schemas of activity while coping with seasonal variability; (ii) season-proofing activities from environmental rhythms; or (iii) re-learning and recalibrating cultures to mutable configurations of rhythms in a highly modified environment.

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季节性文化如何影响新西兰科罗曼德尔半岛新西兰的适应

关于影响社区适应环境和社会变化的文化能力的文献越来越多，包括他们为及时采取行动而利用的时间框架。本文重点关注季节性文化，以及它们如何使科罗曼德尔半岛的社区能够解释和调整实际时间以适应季节节律的破坏模式。本文开发并应用了季节性文化的概念框架，将其视为社区实践的感知节奏模式，作为行动的文化曲目，强调文化随着模式的竞争和变化而演变的方式。这一概念在两年多的时间里引导了对半岛社区进行批判性、混合方法的民族志研究。研究发现，科罗曼德社区的文化使季节变化表现为节奏模式之间的长期变化和不同步，这些变化与气候变化、环境退化、殖民化和全球化以及社会与环境之间关系的变化有关。由于季节性模式无法保持，社区通过实践部署了一系列策略来重新配置季节节奏：（i）维持既定的、制度化的活动模式，同时应对季节性变化； (ii) 不受环境节律影响的季节性活动； (iii) 在高度改变的环境中重新学习和重新调整文化以适应可变的节律配置。