Trees, knots, and outriggers : environmental knowledge in the northeast Kula Ring / Frederick H. Damon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Damon, Frederick H., author.

Series:

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 21.

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Traditional ecological knowledge--Papua New Guinea--Woodlark Island.

Traditional ecological knowledge.

Human ecology--Papua New Guinea--Woodlark Island.

Human ecology.

Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people).

Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--Woodlark Island.

Ethnology.

Papua New Guinea--Woodlark Island.

Physical Description:

xiv, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Kaynen Muyuw

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.

Summary:

Trees, Knots, and Outriggers 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 many Papua Mew Guinea informants, teachers, and friends, and scientists in Australia, Europe, and the United States, in which a spirit of adventure and discovery is palpable. Book jacket.

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 (pages 353-363) and index.

ISBN:

9781785332326

1785332325

9781785333200

1785333208

OCLC:

966483360