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Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring: 21 (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 21) - Softcover

Damon, Frederick H.

 
9781785333200: Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring: 21 (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 21)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1785333208 ISBN 13: 9781785333200
Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1785333208
ISBN 13 
9781785333200
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
390