The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega A Linguistic Perspective
130 an inventory of myths or folk tales that focus on the morphological features of prominent plants or animals in their environ ...
131 Birds play an even less important role [than mammals, to the Aguaruna and Huambisa of Peru]. Some thirty to forty bird speci ...
132 4.8 Conclusion The results presented in the fi rst half of this paper demonstrate that bird naming in Solega is not a straig ...
133 is not the sole force that shapes folk taxonomies. The same can be said of the brightly-coloured orioles, which are unnamed ...
134 believe that the Solega classifi cation of birds is “ largely immune from the variable cultural determinants found in other ...
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 135 A. Si, The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega, Ethnobiology ...
136 Landscape in Language volume [ 191 ] presents the aims of the young fi eld of ‘eth- nophysiography’, and these are said to i ...
137 The cognitive map is basically a semantic long-term memory representation of the proper- ties of and the components in the e ...
138 ‘unripe fruit’ and haṇṇu ‘ripe fruit’. In addition, the intermediate stage miḍi ‘fruit set’ is also named in Solega, but as ...
139 time of questioning (the interview was carried out on 26 March, 2009). This was the start of the pre-monsoons, and many of t ...
14 0 Table 5.2 (continued) Geological and biological landscape features goḍalu The curve of the base of a hill or mountain gonga ...
141 Fig. 5.1 Some common geological and hydrological features named in Solega. ( a ) arre , a rock platform , often used for was ...
142 children , that the owner’s new dog had ruined a lot of the furniture, or that the kitchen was currently being renovated. Th ...
143 with the exception of a handful of landscape terms—these are further discussed below. Following the basic descriptions of al ...
14 4 (It’s everything mixed up, all of it. It includes river forests, valley forests, ridges, hill forest s , tho:pu forests,^3 ...
145 Extract II (S) (BG) A:kaḍe hakki [Looking at the picture of an unfamiliar bird] (It’s a bird from over there ( na:ḍu ka:ḍu ) ...
146 Fig. 5.2 The major ka:ḍu types in Solega. ( a ) tho:pu ka:ḍu , a continuous expanse of highland forest; ( b ) beṭṭa ka:ḍu , ...
147 Fig. 5.2 (continued) stream in the lowlands, seen as a line of lusher green ( two left arrowheads ) terminating in a rockpoo ...
148 ... ... (BG) Male ka:ḍinalli bisilu ille. Eshṭo: tampa:girtade. (It’s not hot in the male ka:ḍu. It’s quite cool.) (BG) Adak ...
149 (AS) Maragaḷa gumpu? A group of trees? (NG) Ã, maragaḷa gumpu. A: gumpu maragaḷadu ashṭe. (Yes, a group of trees. That group ...
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