Mo'ui: Tongan Names for Plants and Animals
(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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- author
- Malm, Thomas LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2007
- type
- Working paper/Preprint
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- 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
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 7fc877ed-5546-49d9-b1e5-8a7a714b08f3 (old id 941409)
- alternative location
- http://www.humecol.lu.se/upload/Humanekologi/Malm2007.pdf
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-01 16:43:48
- date last changed
- 2018-11-21 20:43:45
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