Mo'ui: Tongan Names for Plants and Animals
Författare
Summary, in English
This working paper on Tongan names for plants and animals is intended as a contribution to the documentation of environmental knowledge in one of the most traditional societies of Polynesia. The list contains over 1 400 folk taxa: seaweeds 18 names, terrestrial plants 801 names, marine invertebrates 203 names, terrestrial invertebrates 72 names, fishes 231 names, reptiles and amphibians 15 names, birds 52 names, and mammals 16 names. A list of simple and complex attributives marked by secondary lexemes in Tongan binary nomenclature is also included.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2007
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
46-56
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Working Papers in Human Ecology
Issue
4
Fulltext
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Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Working paper
Förlag
Human Ecology Division, Lund University
Ämne
- Social and Economic Geography
Nyckelord
- Tonga
- Polynesia
- Oceania
- Kingdom of Tonga
- environmental knowledge
- indigenous knowledge
- folk taxonomy
- ethnoecology
- ethnobiology
- human ecology
- anthropology
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1402-6902