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Author Damon, Frederick H., author

Title Trees, knots, and outriggers (Kaynen Muyuw) : environmental knowledge in the northeast Kula Ring / Frederick H. Damon
Edition First edition
Published New York : Berghahn Books, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 375 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 21
Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 21
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject 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.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781785332333 (electronic bk.)
1785332333 (electronic bk.)
Other Titles Kaynen Muyuw