Trees, Knots, and Outriggers : Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring /
Damon, Frederick H.
Trees, Knots, and Outriggers : Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring / Frederick H. Damon. - 1 online resource (390 p.) - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 21 .
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Chapter 5 Vatul: A Life Form and a Form for Life -- Chapter 6 Geometries of Motion: Trees and the Boats of the Eastern Kula Ring -- References -- Index
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781785332326 9781785332333
10.1515/9781785332333 doi
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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Anthropology (General), Environmental Studies (General).
305.8009953
Trees, Knots, and Outriggers : Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring / Frederick H. Damon. - 1 online resource (390 p.) - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 21 .
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Chapter 5 Vatul: A Life Form and a Form for Life -- Chapter 6 Geometries of Motion: Trees and the Boats of the Eastern Kula Ring -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781785332326 9781785332333
10.1515/9781785332333 doi
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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Anthropology (General), Environmental Studies (General).
305.8009953