TY  - BOOK
AU  - Damon,Frederick H.
TI  - Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring 
T2  - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
SN  - 9781785332326
U1  - 305.8009953 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Papua New Guinea
KW  - Woodlark Island
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people)
KW  - Traditional ecological knowledge
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology (General), Environmental Studies (General)
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332333?locatt=mode:legacy
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ER  -