| Description |
1 online resource (389 pages) |
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Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; v. 21 |
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Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology.
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| Contents |
Figures, Graphs, Maps, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Part I -- Among the Scientists: New Perspectives on the Massim; Introduction: Changes and Last Chapters; Chapter 1 -- Return to the Garden: Gwed, Locating Intentions, and Interpretive Puzzles; Part II -- Toward an Ethnography of Trees; Chapter 2 -- The Trees: Classificatory Forms, Landscape Beacons, and Basic Categories; Chapter 3 -- The Forest and Fire, Tasim, Inverted Landscapes, and Tree Meanings; Chapter 4 -- A Story of Calophyllum: From Ecological to Social Facts; Part III -- Synthesizing Models |
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Chapter 5 -- Vatul: A Life Form and a Form for LifeChapter 6 -- Geometries of Motion: Trees and the Boats of the Eastern Kula Ring; References; Index |
| Summary |
Trees, Knots and Outriggers (Kaynen Muyuw) is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Frederick H. Damon and his attention to cultural adaptations to the environment in Melanesia. Damon details the intricacies of indigenous knowledge and practice in his sweeping synthesis of symbolic and structuralist anthropology with recent developments in historical ecology. This book is a long conversation between the author's many Papua New Guinea informants, teachers and friends, and scientists in Australia, Europe and the United States, in which a spirit of adventure and discovery is palpable |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island
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Human ecology -- Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island
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Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people)
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Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Ethnology
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Human ecology
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Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people)
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Traditional ecological knowledge
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Humanökologie
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Umwelt
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Ethnologie
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Muyuw
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Lokales Wissen
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Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781785332333 |
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1785332333 |
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