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Author Damon, Frederick H., author

Title Trees, knots, and outriggers : environmental knowledge in the northeast Kula Ring / Frederick H. Damon
Edition First edition
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2017
©2017

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Description xiv, 375 pages ; 24 cm
Series Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 21
Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 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
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also issued online
Subject Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island.
Human ecology -- Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island.
Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people)
Traditional ecological knowledge -- Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island.
LC no. 2016022585
ISBN 1785332325
1785333208
9781785332326
9781785333200
Other Titles Kaynen Muyuw