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Thomas Malm, Photo.

Thomas Malm

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Thomas Malm, Photo.

Mo'ui: Tongan Names for Plants and Animals

Author

  • Thomas Malm

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.

Department/s

  • Human Ecology

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

46-56

Publication/Series

Working Papers in Human Ecology

Issue

4

Document type

Working paper

Publisher

Human Ecology Division, Lund University

Topic

  • Social and Economic Geography

Keywords

  • Tonga
  • Polynesia
  • Oceania
  • Kingdom of Tonga
  • environmental knowledge
  • indigenous knowledge
  • folk taxonomy
  • ethnoecology
  • ethnobiology
  • human ecology
  • anthropology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1402-6902