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Landscape Terms in Solega

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The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega

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The study of human conceptualisations of landscape, as they are encoded in the world’s languages, has the potential to provide answers to some basic linguistic questions, such as:

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Pocock acknowledges the limitations of his findings, pointing out that “the overall correspondence between possessed information and the elicited map is a function of graphicacy”, and that it may be unrealistic to assume equivalence between groups.

  2. 2.

    Phenology is the study of recurring plant and animal life cycle stages, or phenophases, such as leafing and flowering of plants, maturation of agricultural crops, emergence of insects, and migration of birds (USA National Phenology Network website).

  3. 3.

    To be described below.

  4. 4.

    See orrega:d.u below

  5. 5.

    See san.n.a ka:nu ka:d.u below

  6. 6.

    These terms are explained below.

  7. 7.

    BG goes on to warn about the fruit of the ge:ru tree: the flesh is edible, but the seed is poisonous.

  8. 8.

    This is a discursive strategy frequently used by BG: the representation of an event or a process by means of a mini-conversation between him and an unspecified partner, or group of partners.

  9. 9.

    BG goes on to relate the myth of how the Se:t.a ka:nu came into being.

  10. 10.

    BG goes on to tell of an incident in which he was attacked by a bear while looking for honey in an od.d.uga:ḍu.

  11. 11.

    BG goes on to tell the story of the wife of an acquaintance who was trampled to death by an elephant while collecting yams in a flatland forest .

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Si, A. (2016). Landscape Terms in Solega. In: The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega. Ethnobiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24681-9_5

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