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Trees, Knots, and Outriggers : Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring / Frederick H. Damon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 21Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (390 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785332326
  • 9781785332333
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8009953 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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.

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.

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