Smelling the monsoon: Senses and traditional weather forecasting knowledge among the Kenyah Badeng farmers of Sarawak, Malaysia

Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-30

  Garay Barayazarra, Gotzone ^a   Puri, Rajindra K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borneo; Climate forecasting; East Malaysia; Ethnoclimatology; Indigenous knowledge; Sarawak; Sensory anthropology; Traditional forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952138322     PISSN: 09725938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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