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Mo'ui: Tongan Names for Plants and Animals

Malm, Thomas LU (2007) In Working Papers in Human Ecology p.46-56
Abstract
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.
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Tonga, Polynesia, Oceania, Kingdom of Tonga, environmental knowledge, indigenous knowledge, folk taxonomy, ethnoecology, ethnobiology, human ecology, anthropology
in
Working Papers in Human Ecology
issue
4
pages
46 - 56
publisher
Human Ecology Division, Lund University
ISSN
1402-6902
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English
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yes
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7fc877ed-5546-49d9-b1e5-8a7a714b08f3 (old id 941409)
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http://www.humecol.lu.se/upload/Humanekologi/Malm2007.pdf
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  title        = {{Mo'ui: Tongan Names for Plants and Animals}},
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