'Drawing the coral heads': Mental mapping and its physical representation in a Polynesian community

Cartographic Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 243-253

  Feinberg, Richard ^a   Dymon, Ute J ^a   Pu, Paiaki ^a   Pu, Rangituteki ^a   Pu, Nukuriaki ^a   Rollins, Matthew ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; MAPPING METHOD; REEF; SEAFLOOR;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA];

EID: 0742319875     PISSN: 00087041     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000870403225012943     Document Type: Article

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