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The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega A Linguistic Perspective

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  • 1 Introduction Contents

    • 1.1 A Brief Introduction to the Field

      • Simultaneously 1.1.1 Documenting Language and Traditional Knowledge

      • 1.1.2 Defi ning ‘Ethnobiology’



    • 1.2 Language in Ethnobiology: A Classifi catory Bias

    • 1.3 Questions

      • 1.3.1 The Ethnobiological Lexicon

      • 1.3.2 Analysing One ‘Context’

      • 1.3.3 Incorporating Variation

      • 1.3.4 ‘Encyclopaedic Knowledge’ as an Object of Study



    • 1.4 Concerns About Scope and Method

    • 1.5 Book Outline

    • 1.6 Field Situation

    • 1.7 Ethnographic Sketch

      • 1.7.1 The Community: Name and Identity

      • 1.7.2 Previous Studies

      • 1.7.3 Governance

      • 1.7.4 Religion

      • 1.7.5 Division of Labour

      • 1.7.6 Nutrition

      • 1.7.7 Modern Living

      • 1.7.8 Socio-economic Situation

      • 1.7.9 Attitudes towards Language and Traditional Knowledge

      • 1.7.10 Attitudes Towards the Forest................................................



    • some Key Assumptions 2 Ethnotaxonomies and Universals: Investigating

    • 2.1 Introduction

    • 2.2 Universals in Folk Biological Classifi cation

      • 2.2.1 Ethnobiological Classifi cation by Berlin



    • 2.3 On Challenging and Defending ‘Universals’ x

    • 2.4 Problems with Berlin’s Ethnobiological Classifi cation

      • 2.4.1 Many Possible Classifi cation Schemes

      • 2.4.2 ‘Objective’ Scientifi c Taxonomy



    • 2.5 Synthesis

    • 2.6 Folk Genera, Rank and Nomenclature

      • 2.6.1 Solega



    • 2.7 Conclusion



  • 3 Plants in Solega Language and Culture

    • 3.1 Introduction

    • 3.2 Solega Attitudes Towards Plants

      • 3.2.1 Plants Used to Be People

      • 3.2.2 Relationships with Individual Trees



    • 3.3 General Naming Conventions

      • 3.3.1 The Prefi x he ◻

      • 3.3.2 The Epithet uccu



    • 3.4 Patterns in Solega Plant Classifi cation

    • 3.5 Solega Ethnospecies and Scientifi c Classifi cation

      • 3.5.1 Plant Groupings in Solega......................................................



    • 3.6 Ethnospecies Names and Linguistic Conventions

    • 3.7 Plants in Place Names

      • 3.7.1 Sources of Current Plant Distributions

      • 3.7.2 Sources of Historical Biodiversity



    • 3.8 The Naming of Individual Trees

      • 3.8.1 Sacred Trees

      • 3.8.2 Bee Trees

      • 3.8.3 Trees Named for Their Physical Appearance

      • 3.8.4 Other Named Trees

      • 3.8.5 The Referent of a Named Tree



    • 3.9 Plant Uses



  • 4 Solega Ethno-ornithology

    • 4.1 Introduction

    • 4.2 Methods

    • 4.3 Solega Bird Nomenclature

      • 4.3.1 Acceptability Judgements

      • 4.3.2 Picture Elicitation Task



    • 4.4 The Role of Perceptual Salience

    • 4.5 The Effect of Culture

    • 4.6 Relation to Scientifi c Taxonomy

    • 4.7 Birds in Solega Life, Myth and Ritual

      • 4.7.1 Birds as Sources of Information

      • 4.7.2 Birds with Supernatural or Ritual Connections

      • 4.7.3 Birds as Moral Arbiters

      • 4.7.4 Miscellaneous Folklore



    • 4.8 Conclusion



  • 5 Landscape Terms in Solega xi

    • 5.1 Introduction

    • 5.2 Ka:ḍu as a Landscape

    • 5.3 Landscape/Forest Types in Solega

      • 5.3.1 Tho:pu ka:ḍu

      • 5.3.2 Beṭṭa:ga:ḍu

      • 5.3.3 (Doḍḍa) ka:nu ka:ḍu

      • 5.3.4 (H)orrega:ḍu (also na:ḍu ka:ḍu, kutare ga:ḍu)

      • 5.3.5 Oṭṭuga:ḍu/eḷa:vuga:ḍu

      • 5.3.6 Begga:ḍu

      • 5.3.7 Hullu thoṭṭi, kari/benda ka:ḍu

      • 5.3.8 Aḷḷa ka:ḍu/koḷḷa ka:ḍu

      • 5.3.9 Hoḍe ka:nu

      • 5.3.10 Saṇṇa ka:nu

      • 5.3.11 Oḍḍuga:ḍu/kalloḍḍu

      • 5.3.12 Bo:ḷiga:ḍu/beṭṭa bo:ḷi

      • 5.3.13 Guḍḍega:ḍu, bo:rega:ḍu

      • 5.3.14 Dimba ka:ḍu



    • 5.4 Nomenclatural Considerations

    • 5.5 Landscape/Forest Terms and Seasonality

    • 5.6 Patterns of Usage

    • 5.7 Conclusion



  • 6 Signs and Relationships

    • 6.1 Introduction

    • 6.2 Types of Signs

      • 6.2.1 Long-Term Cycles

      • 6.2.2 Short-Term Cycles and (Temporal) Coincidences

      • 6.2.3 (Spatial) Collocations

      • 6.2.4 Intrinsic Signs



    • 6.3 Relationships

      • 6.3.1 Plant–Animal

      • 6.3.2 Plant–Plant

      • 6.3.3 Animal–Animal



    • 6.4 ‘They’re Like Us’

    • 6.5 Conclusion



  • 7 Honeybee Lore...........................................................................................

    • 7.1 On the Manipulation of Resources

    • 7.2 The Word je:nu

    • 7.3 Honey Harvesting

    • 7.4 Bee Songs

    • 7.5 Solega Knowledge of Bee Natural History

      • 7.5.1 Types of Honeybees

      • 7.5.2 Aspects of Bee Life History



    • 7.6 Conclusion



  • 8 Conclusions xii

    • 8.1 The Nature of TEK

    • 8.2 Diachronic Ethnobiology

    • 8.3 Fact or Fiction: TEK from the Analyst’s Point of View

    • 8.4 Culture and Classifi cations

    • 8.5 Linguistic Context and Encyclopaedic Knowledge

    • 8.6 Concluding Remarks



  • References

  • Index

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