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Author Damon, Frederick H., author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
©2017

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 375 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 21
Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 21.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-363) and index.
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.
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Subject Traditional ecological knowledge -- Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island.
Traditional ecological knowledge.
Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island.
Human ecology -- Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island.
Human ecology.
Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people)
Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people)
Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Woodlark Island.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Added Title Kaynen Muyuw
Other Form: Print version: Damon, Frederick H. Trees, knots, and outriggers. First edition. New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 9781785332326 (DLC) 2016022585 (OCoLC)966483360
ISBN 9781785332333 (electronic book)
1785332333 (electronic book)
9781785332326
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9781785333200
1785333208