Mo'ui: Tongan Names for Plants and Animals
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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
Publishing year
2007
Language
English
Pages
46-56
Publication/Series
Working Papers in Human Ecology
Issue
4
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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