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Article: Of People and Plants: A Botanical Ethnography of Nokopo Village, Madang and Morobe Provinces, Papua New Guinea.
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- Oceania
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- March 1, 1994
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Nokopo is a Yopno village in the Finisterre Range, Huon Peninsula, of eastern Papua New Guinea. The people living there are gardeners and pig husbanders who know and use many of the species of plant found between altitudes of 1200 and 2400 metres. In Of People and Plants Christin Kocher Schmid records much of Nokopo plant lore.
Kocher Schmid used participant observation, interviews, surveys and collection to derive a `botanical ethnography' of Nokopo people. She recorded 525 Nikopo plant terms (including synonyms), idendtifying 36 percent of these to the level of biological species and 68 and 99 percent, respectively, to the levels of genus and family. Given ...