Browsing by Author "Balick, Michael J."
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Calendar Plants in Southern Vanuatu
(2023-05-03)One noteworthy example of these is the use of “ecological calendars,” in which natural cycles are observed as guides in time-reckoning. In southern Vanuatu, what we here call “calendar plants” represent the majority of ... -
"The children of the Sun and Moon are the gardens"—How people, plants, and a living Sun shape life on Tanna, Vanuatu
(2024-11-20)Based on original ethnographic and ethnobotanical research, we share how in the cosmology of Tanna, an island in Vanuatu’s southernmost province of Tafea, the Sun is viewed as a living, interactive being. Our initial ... -
Ethnobotany and Vernacular Names of the Lycophytes and Ferns of Tafea Province, Vanuatu
(2022-08)We conducted extensive fieldwork in the Tafea Province of Vanuatu from 2014 to 2021 as part of a long-term floristic study of plants and fungi, as well as analyses of changes in forest structure and plant diversity in ... -
Wind lore as environmental knowledge in Southern Vanuatu
(2024)Wind lore constitutes an important domain of environmental knowledge in eight cultures of southern Vanuatu (Aneityum, Futuna, Aniwa, Nafe, Naka, Netwar, Nanu, and Nahual). Our study reviews previous studies in Oceania which ...
