Trees, Knots, and Outriggers

Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-232-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 714 g

Reihe: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Damon, Frederick H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

References

Über Autor(innen)

Damon, Frederick H.
Frederick H. Damon is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.