Trees, knots, and outriggers : environmental knowledge in the northeast Kula Ring
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Trees, knots, and outriggers : environmental knowledge in the northeast Kula Ring
（Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology, v. 21）
Berghahn Books, c2017
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-363) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: AMONG THE SCIENTISTS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE MASSIM
Chapter 1. Return to the Garden: Gwed, locating intentions and interpretive puzzles
PART II: TOWARDS AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF TREES
Chapter 2. The Trees: Classificatory forms, landscape beacons and basic categories
Chapter 3. The Forests and the 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
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