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Contents

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

Trees, Knots, and Outriggers

Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring

Frederick H. Damon

390 pages, 49 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78533-232-6 Hb Published (October 2016)

ISBN  978-1-78533-320-0 Pb Published (October 2016)

eISBN 978-1-78533-233-3 eBook