Browsing Dr. David Harrison by Subject "ethnobotany"

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Ethnobotany and Vernacular Names of the Lycophytes and Ferns of Tafea Province, Vanuatu

Ranker, Tom A.; Balick, Michael J.; Plunkett, Gregory M.; Harrison, K. David; Wahe, Jean-Pascal; Wahe, Martial (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 ...
Weather magic as environmental knowledge in southern Vanuatu

Balick, Michael J.; Harrison, K. David; Kelso, Neal; Neriam, Reuben; Noar, Johnson; Plunkett, Gregory M.; Ramík, Dominik M.; Wahe, Jean-Pascal (2022)

This paper presents weather magic practices from the islands of Tanna and Aneityum, in southern Vanuatu, and highlights how this phenomenon is a critical domain of Indigenous environmental knowledge, particularly knowledge ...