Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring (Paperback or Softback)

Damon, Frederick H.

ISBN 10: 1785333208 / ISBN 13: 9781785333200

Verlag: Berghahn Books 10/1/2016, 2016

Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BBS-9781785333200

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Frederick H. Damon is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental ...
Verlag: Berghahn Books 10/1/2016
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: Paperback or Softback
Zustand: New
Art des Buches: Book