The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega A Linguistic Perspective /

• Main Author: Si, Aung (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Ethnobiology,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant ecology.; Plant anatomy.; Plant development.; Anthropology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Plant Ecology.; Plant Anatomy/Development.

This book covers the ethnobiology and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of the Solega people of southern India. Solega TEK is shown to be a complex, inter-related network of detailed observations of natural phenomena, well-reasoned and often highly accurate theorizing, as well as a belief syste...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Ethnotaxonomies and Universals: Investigating some Key Assumptions
• Plants in Solega Language and Culture
• Solega Ethno-ornithology
• Landscape terms in Solega
• Signs and Relationships
• Honeybee Lore
• Conclusions.