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Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring
Frederick H. Damon
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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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Condition
New
Weight
682g
Number of Pages
390
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785332326
SKU
V9781785332326
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About Frederick H. Damon
Frederick H. Damon is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.
Reviews for Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring
...a totally original, fascinating, and valuable book. Human Ecology A masterpiece of engineering is notoriously difficult to write about, even more so when conceived and built by `visual and tactile people'. The author has succeeded well in giving the reader insight into the emic perspective of Muyuw canoes in all their social and ecological complexity. ... Read more