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Trees, knots, and outriggers : environmental knowledge in the northeast Kula Ring / Frederick H. Damon
Bib ID 7327943
Format BookBook [text, volume]
Author
Damon, Frederick H., author
 
Edition First edition. 
Description New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 
©2017 
xiv, 375 pages ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 9781785332326 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
1785332325 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9781785333200 (paperback)
1785333208 (paperback)
Invalid ISBN 9781785332333 (electronic book)
Series

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 21.

Full contents
  • Return to the garden : gwed, locating intentions and interpretive puzzles
  • The trees : classificatory forms, landscape beacons and basic categories
  • The forests and the fire : tasim, inverted landscapes, and tree meanings
  • A story of Calophyllum : from ecological to social facts
  • Vatul : a life form and a form for life
  • Geometries of motion : trees and the boats of the eastern Kula Ring.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects Traditional ecological knowledge -- Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island.  |  Human ecology -- Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island.  |  Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people)  |  Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island.  |  Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island.

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