Title: Trees, knots, and outriggers : environmental knowledge in the northeast Kula Ring /
Authors: Damon, Frederick H.,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Traditional ecological knowledge Papua New Guinea Woodlark Island.; Human ecology Papua New Guinea Woodlark Island.; Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people); Ethnology Papua New Guinea Woodlark Island.; Ethnology; Human ecology; Muyuw (Papua New Guinean people); Traditional ecological knowledge; Papua New Guinea Woodlark Island
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.